Paul Hurst (October 15, 1888 – February 27, 1953) was an American character actor of prodigious output who also directed and wrote silent films. Much of his early work was in low budget western films. A native of central California, Hurst had a first-hand knowledge of Western lore, growing up surrounded by the multi-million acre Lux & Miller ranches which ran cattle throughout the state. Visiting San Francisco as a young man, Hurst became involved in amateur theatricals and thereafter traveled to Los Angeles to join in the emerging film industry there. He began appearing in films as early as 1912, most of them Westerns. By 1916, he was directing them as well (some sources report that he served in the First World War as a member of the French Foreign Legion, but the dates of his film projects make this story highly suspect).
In the early 1920s, Hurst wrote several scenarios for films he directed and appeared in. He proved adept at working as a director for some of the cheapest producers along Gower Gulch, where movies were normally shot on location in a week or less and where stunt men were often the highest paid folks on the set. Within a few years, he focused all of his energies into acting, notably becoming one of the few successes to emerge from Hollywood’s Poverty Row. Hurst quickly became one of the more prolific and familiar characters in American movies. With his blocky build and squinty demeanor, and with a raspy voice that enhanced his memorability once sound pictures came in, Hurst played villains and cops and comedy sidekicks in more than 250 films. His most famous role was that of the deserter shot dead on the stairway of Tara by Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939). Hurst was the sidekick to Monte Hale in a number of B-Westerns. Former Gower Gulch veteran John Wayne hired Hurst for Big Jim McLain (1952) knowing that Hurst was ill with terminal cancer. In 1953, at the age of 64, due to his health problems, Paul Hurst committed suicide.
Date of Death: 27 February 1953, Hollywood, California  (suicide)
Paul Hurst Biography / Wiki
| Name | Paul Hurst |
| Also Know | Paul Causey Hurst, Paul C. Hurst |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Traver, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1888-10-15 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 64 |
| Deathday | 1953-02-27 |
Paul Hurst Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Ranger of Cherokee Strip | Sheriff Jug Mason | 1949-11-04 | Having been framed for murder, the half-breed Joe Bearclaws (Douglas Kennedy) escapes from jail and Ranger Steve Howard (Monte Hale) goes after him. H… |
| Prince of the Plains | Sheriff Hank Hartley | 1949-04-08 | Banker Ned Owens refuses to call in the many unpaid loans made to the local ranchers as he knows they are being terrorized by a gang of crooks and una… |
| Glove Slingers | Chuck Brenner | 1939-11-24 | A fighter trains for the big bout, and discovers that his opponent is his girlfriend’s brother…. |
| Pioneer Marshal | Huck Homer | 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 Missourians | John X. Finn | 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… |
| The Old Frontier | Skipper Horton | 1950-07-20 | Monte Hale is cast as town marshal Barney Regan. It is Barney’s formidable task to round up a gang of bank robbers and expose the “Mr. Big” behind all… |
| Law of the Golden West | Otis Ellis | 1949-05-23 | Young Buffalo Bill Cody goes after the murderer of his father and uncovers a land-grab conspiracy…. |
| Outcasts of the Trail | Doc Meadowlark | 1949-06-08 | Legendary lawman Pat Garrett wins the Fourth of July buckboard race in a small Nevada town against the unscrupulous Fred Smith and pretty Lavinia Whit… |
| The Vanishing Westerner | Waldorf Worthington | 1950-03-30 | Posing as wanted men, Chris and Waldorf get hired by Sanderson. He sends them to kill the Sheriff but puts blanks in their guns. When they arrive some… |
| The Ballad of Paducah Jail | Escaped Felon | 1934-10-20 | Kentucky humorist Irvin S. Cobb hunts for an escaped felon, but the tables are turned when the criminal nabs him instead…. |
| The Further Adventures of Stingaree | Howie | 1917-06-01 | The movie serial sequel featuring Stingaree… |
| The Diamond Runners | Paul – the Brains of the I.D.B. | 1916-08-28 | Helen, a “diamond runner,” reaches South Africa…. |
| That’s My Line | Mexican Bandit | 1931-07-13 | The first in RKO Pathe’s series of “Traveling Salesman Comedies” has Louis John Bartels traveling to Mexico to sell his line of underwear. He garners … |
| The Big Stampede | ‘Arizona’ Frank Bailey | 1932-10-08 | Deputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who’s been bumping off all the local lawmen and rustling the cattle…. |
| Prison Break | Soapy | 1938-07-12 | Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for … |
| The Lawless Legion | Ramirez | 1929-02-17 | Cal Stanley goes undercover as a beef buyer in order to catch the gang responsible for stealing the area’s cattle…. |
| Lightning Bryce | Powder Solvang | 1919-10-14 | Two prospectors, one the father of Skye “Lightning” Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, find a large gold deposit belonging to an Indian tr… |
| San Antone Ambush | Happy Daniels | 1949-10-06 | Just after the Civil War a Texan and his men are fighting a ruthless Commissioner and his excessive taxes. After a Lieutenant is falsely accused of a … |
| South of Rio | Andy Weems | 1949-07-29 | The town of Rio Blanco is the center of a fight over the statehood issue and is a perfect setup for Lon Bryson and Chuck Bowers, who organize a couple… |
| Son of God’s Country | Eli Walker | 1948-09-15 | Son of God’s Country stars singing cowboy Monte Hale in his traditional screen role of do-gooder and last-minute problem-solver. This time, it’s the o… |
| California Firebrand | Chuck Waggoner | 1948-04-01 | Directed by Philip Ford in 1948. When cowboy Monte Hale (Monte Hale) returns home to investigate his uncle’s murder, he’s mistaken for a fierce outlaw… |
| Under Colorado Skies | Lucky John Hawkins | 1947-12-15 | Monte Hale has been working as a teller in a Texas bank during the summer to earn money for his medical college expenses during the upcoming year. He … |
| The Big Race | Skipper O’Neal | 1934-02-14 | Bob Hamilton gets into trouble when crooks cause the defeat of his father’s horse in the Derby, and it is reported he is in with the crooks. The old m… |
| The Third Alarm | ‘Beauty’ Johnson | 1930-11-17 | The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank “Dad” Brooks is the beloved veteran and whose children, Milly and Jimmie, are espec… |
| The Manager of the B & A | Roger Oakley (as Paul C. Hurst) | 1916-09-25 | Dan Oakley becomes a railroad manager and his attempt to slash expenses by layoffs and lengthening hours incurs the workers’ wrath. With the help of G… |
| Trouble in Morocco | Tiger Malone | 1937-03-09 | A newspaperman Paul Cluett (Jack Holt) gets rival reporter Linda Lawrence (Mae Clark) to admit that she is investigating a story in Morocco that guns … |
| Stingaree | Howie – Stingaree’s Partner | 1915-11-24 | Wealthy Irving Randolph is falsely denounced as a deliberate murderer by his greedy younger brother when Randolph, during a rifle shooting contest, ac… |
| The Red Signal | Chief Dispatcher | 1915-02-13 | Brent, the night operator has been knocked unconscious by a piece of lumber projecting from a passing freight, and has been rendered temporarily insan… |
| Medicine Bend | Murray Sinclair | 1916-07-03 | Whispering Smith, a railroad detective, is sent to Medicine Bend to suppress the looting of cars…. |
| Judith of the Cumberlands | Blatchley Turrentine | 1916-07-31 | Two rival mountain clans that have been feuding for years begin a new battle over the moonshine whiskey trade. A young man and a girl from each of the… |
| Paradise Island | Beauty | 1930-07-15 | The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives expecting marriage to respectable and successful plantation o… |
| The Sphinx | Detective Terrence Aloysius Hogan | 1933-06-01 | A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was l… |
| The Thirteenth Guest | Detective Grump | 1932-08-09 | Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodi… |
| Bad Company | Paul Hurst | 1931-11-08 | A young woman showered with gifts has no idea her lawyer boyfriend works for a gangster…. |
| December 7th | World War I Ghost Soldier | 1943-01-01 | “Docudrama” about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii a… |
| The Racketeer | Mehaffy – Policeman | 1929-11-09 | A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite…. |
| Sequoia | Bergman | 1935-01-16 | A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends…. |
| Borrowed Wives | Bull Morgan | 1930-08-20 | Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle… Who happens to live in a “haunted house”…. |
| Bad Lands | Curly Tom | 1939-08-28 | A sheriff and his posse set out to catch a murderer, but their mission proves more dangerous than anyone suspected after they become stranded in the d… |
| The Runaway Bride | Sergeant Daly | 1930-05-04 | Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, a… |
| The Single Sin | Slug | 1931-02-23 | A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire. The magnate falls madly in love with … |
| The Red Raiders | Sergeant Murphy | 1927-09-27 | Lone wolf, who is stirring up the Indians against the wishes of his elders, gets the job of scout at the fort. When he hears of the approval of the ne… |
| Lucky Larkin | Pete Brierson | 1930-03-02 | Colonel Lee, a homesteader, is the object of terrorists who want to drive him off the range so that his horses cannot be entered in the county races, … |
| Mountain Justice | Lem Harland | 1930-05-04 | In the Kentucky mountains, Ken McTavish comes to Kettle Creek looking for the killer of his father. When he learns that it was Abner Harland, he fakes… |
| The California Mail | Rowdy Ryan | 1929-04-06 | During the darkest hour of the American Civil War, the Union desperately needs gold to keep its armies in the field and its credit good. Federal Agent… |
| Sailor’s Holiday | Jimmylegs | 1929-09-14 | Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a s… |
| Heart of Virginia | Whit Galtry | 1948-04-25 | Jimmy Easter is a jockey who gets shook up when he is responsible for the death of a fellow rider during a race. He gets back down to business, howeve… |
| Whispering Smith | Murray Sinclair | 1916-06-05 | Whispering Smith is a virile, fearless type of the true American whoso theory of life is to give every man a chance to show what is in him. There is n… |
| The Quicksands | Captain Lanning – Osborn’s Rival | 1914-06-10 | Captain Lanning and Lieutenant Osborne are stationed at an army post in the Philippines. Lanning conceives a deadly hatred toward Osborne when the lat… |
| Rimrock Jones | Ike Bray | 1918-01-21 | Rimrock Jones is the toughest and most likeable prospector in a thriving Arizona copper camp. Having already been cheated out of several valuable copp… |
| The Plot at the Railroad Cut | Benton, the Foreman | 1914-11-21 | In the second entry of the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, is temporarily assigned as a telegraph operator at Quarry Depot; bad blood springs … |
| Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring | Page | 1941-11-18 | Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia’s Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring. On this occasion, E… |
| The Cossacks | Sitchi | 1928-06-23 | Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and chivalry. A mighty picturization of Count Leo Tolsto… |
| Calaboose | Ed the bartender | 1943-01-29 | A love-smitten cowpoke acciidentally causes a horse stampede…. |
| The Big Show-Off | Herbert Trafagan, aka “The Devil”, a wrestler | 1945-01-22 | A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as “The Devil” in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans)…. |
| The Legion of Missing Men | Muggsy | 1937-07-28 | Bob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legi… |
| Shadow of the Law | Pete Shore | 1930-06-06 | John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the sha… |
| Old Isaacson’s Diamonds | Snake Henely | 1915-02-25 | Fifth episode of the Girl Detective series 2-reels where a ‘society girl’ has a position as a special investigator in the police…. |
| Blue Streak O’Neil | 1926-12-15 | On a mission to discover the identity of the rustlers of the cattle on Britton ranch, Blue Streak O’Neil exposes the villains mingling with the sherif… | |
| The Secret Witness | Officer Brannigan | 1931-12-31 | A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim’s downstairs neighbor belie… |
| Dudes Are Pretty People | Two-Gun | 1942-03-13 | Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch…. |
| The Valley of the Giants | Randeau | 1927-12-04 | Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves…. |
| Madonna of the Desert | Pete Connors | 1948-02-23 | A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe be… |
| The Last Express | Asst. Dist. Atty. Springer | 1938-10-27 | A woman finds herself unwillingly mixed up in a series of murders. At the behest of the district attorney, private detective Duncan MacLain (Kent Tay… |
| Gun Smugglers | Sergeant Hasty Jones | 1948-12-28 | A young boy threatens to follow in his outlaw brother’s footsteps…. |
| Midnight Manhunt | Murphy | 1945-07-27 | Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum…. |
| Sundown Jim | Broderick | 1942-03-27 | US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local crim… |
| Outlaw’s Paradise | McDonald | 1927-03-01 | Our hero is mistaken for a bandit. Al’s girl Nancy at first believes him to be guilty, but he manage to convince her that the real bandit is McDonald…. |
| Pardon My Stripes | Feets | 1942-01-26 | Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns … |
| The Fighting Ranger | 1926-09-15 | After inheriting his uncle’s ranch, a cowpoke manages to capture a ghost of the range, break up some cattle rustlers, and win the girl…. | |
| Blackmailer | Inspector Killian | 1936-07-23 | Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead…. |
| The Driver Of The Deadwood Coach | Bad Bill – a Desperado | 1912-12-07 | A young boy foils outlaw “Bad Bill” from stealing a gold shipment in this classic Western short…. |
| The Girl Detective | (Episode #1, 2, etc.) | 1915-01-02 | A series of 2-reel thrillers in which a society girl has a position as a special investigator for the police and works on various cases where her uniq… |
| A Lass of the Lumberlands | 1916-01-02 | 15-episode serial directed by Paul Hurst and J.P. McGowan…. | |
| The Chief of Police | Daniels | 1914-08-04 | How a man, imprisoned for another’s crime, finds justice at last…. |
| The Swellhead | Mugsy | 1930-03-20 | A young fighter, Bill Hickey, achieves success through the help and support of his friends and, once he does, he gets a big case of ‘swellhead.’ And t… |
| The Secret Six | Nick Mizoski – the Gouger | 1931-04-18 | Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Sco… |
| The Westerner | Chickenfoot | 1940-09-18 | Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by… |
| Caught in the Draft | Sgt. Burns | 1941-07-04 | Don Bolton is a movie star who can’t stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married…but falls for a colonel’s daughter. By mistake… |
| Night in New Orleans | Sergeant Casper Riordan | 1942-07-01 | A policeman’s family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation…. |
| Island in the Sky | Happy | 1938-04-01 | A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney’s office…. |
| Sweepstakes | Bartender | 1931-07-10 | A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he’s accused of throwing a race…. |
| Secrets of a Nurse | Arlington Bysshe ‘Slice’ Cavanaugh | 1938-12-02 | This Universal programmer was based on a Collier’s Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true in… |
| Girl Rush | Muley | 1944-10-21 | During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western minin… |
| The Devil’s Saddle | ‘Swig’ Moran | 1927-07-10 | Hero is center of plot by a gang of lawless whites to convince Indians he killed one of their number, but finally clears himself…. |
| The Lady Fights Back | Maloney | 1937-10-01 | Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale. W… |
| Josette | A. Adolphus Heyman | 1938-06-03 | Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they b… |
| Tomorrow’s Youth | Detective | 1934-10-14 | A look at how his parents’ divorce affects the life of a young boy…. |
| You Can’t Beat Love | Foreman Butch Mehaffey | 1937-06-25 | The film begins with a knuckle-head playboy (Preston Foster) working on a road crew dressed in a tux in order to win a bet. Apparently, this guy will … |
| The Arizona Ranger | Ben Riddle | 1948-05-14 | A disgraced veteran wanders the West alone until he decides to help a battered woman…. |
| Panama Flo | Al | 1932-01-29 | An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp…. |
| This Woman Is Mine | Second Mate Mumford | 1941-08-22 | Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow…. |
| Kick In | Detective Whip Fogarty | 1931-05-22 | Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick’s crooked friend, Benny LaMarr, to whom he is indebted for… |
| Goin’ Fishin’ | 1940-10-26 | The gang is going fishing and wants to get an early start, but they end up causing all sorts of problems for the passengers of a city bus…. | |
| South to Karanga | Slats | 1940-08-02 | Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way…. |
| Buttons | Slugger McGlue | 1927-12-24 | Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship’s captain when they try to tell hi… |
| It Could Happen to You | Sandy | 1939-06-08 | In this comedy/mystery a milquetoast ad man finds his good ideas constantly copped by ambitious coworkers. His boss doesn’t even seem to see him. The … |
| I’d Give My Life | “Sport” Conly | 1936-08-13 | The movie, like the play “The Noose” on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully convicted of and sentenced to be hanged for a murder… |
| Tugboat Annie Sails Again | Pete | 1940-10-26 | Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business…. |
| Virginia | Thomas | 1941-01-28 | Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray…. |
| She’s No Lady | Cop | 1937-08-20 | Alden “Bill” Carter III sees a beautiful woman, Jerry, dining alone at the Park Savoy in New York, and after a brief flirtation, introduces himself. A… |
| Tide of Empire | Poppy | 1929-03-23 | California’s gold discovery in 1848 draws a “tide of empire” to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits…. |
| My Pal, the King | Red | 1932-04-03 | The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus…. |
| Public Hero Number 1 | Rufe Parker | 1935-05-31 | G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailb… |
| Cafe Society | Bartender | 1939-03-03 | A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column…. |
| The Great Mr. Nobody | Michael O’Connor | 1941-02-15 | A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit…. |
| North of Nome | Carlson | 1936-11-14 | John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a corporation…. |
| Death Valley | Sergeant Dailey | 1946-08-15 | A dance hall girl is murdered and her body robbed of a quantity of gold obtained illegally. The killer flees into Death Valley and encounters the righ… |
| His First Command | Sgt. Westbrook | 1929-12-28 | A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her…. |
| Roaring Road | Checking Board Tabulator (uncredited) | 1926-05-01 | A young racing driver combines the best features of two rival cars, thus producing an automobile which is the best entry in the race. He triumphs over… |
| The Railroad Raiders | Steve Arnold (as Paul C. Hurst) | 1917-04-09 | A silent movie serial… |
| Hi’ya, Chum | Archie Billings | 1943-02-25 | Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant…. |
| Million Dollar Pursuit | Ray Harvey | 1951-05-30 | A petty thief schemes a big score when he plans an armored car robbery…. |
| Island of Lost Souls | Capt. Donahue | 1932-12-31 | An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half… |
| Topper Takes a Trip | Charlie – the Bartender | 1938-12-29 | Mrs Topper’s friend Mrs Parkhurst has convinced Mrs topper, to file for a divorce from Cosmo, due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost … |
| The Sun Shines Bright | Jimmy Bagby | 1953-05-02 | John Ford weaves three “Judge Priest” stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the t… |
| Second Honeymoon | Dennis Huggins | 1937-11-13 | Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob enjoys… |
| Officer O’Brien | Captain Antrim | 1930-02-16 | Bill O’Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang leader and racketeer, for murder. Ruth Dale, who … |
| Men Are Such Fools | Stiles | 1932-11-19 | An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is… |
| We Who Are About to Die | Tip Fuller | 1937-01-08 | John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspic… |
| Oh, Yeah! | Railroad-Yard Superintendent | 1929-10-19 | A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other drifters, find roma… |
| Coney Island | Louie | 1943-06-18 | Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco’s Coney Island night spo… |
| The Hazards of Helen | Benton – a Foreman | 1917-02-24 | The Hazards of Helen is an American melodramatic adventure film serial of 119 twelve-minute episodes released between November 7, 1914 and February 24… |
| Angel and the Badman | Frederick Carson | 1947-02-15 | Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans’ horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family’s home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes… |
| Scared Stiff | Sheriff | 1945-06-22 | A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set…. |
| Alexander’s Ragtime Band | Bill Mulligan | 1938-05-24 | Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls … |
| Hot Curves | ‘Slug’, Baseball Player | 1930-06-14 | The star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his catcher helps him get back into the game…. |
| Tugboat Annie | Sam | 1933-08-04 | Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things… |
| Hold ‘Em Jail | Butch | 1932-09-16 | Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden’s championship team…. |
| Take the Stand | Denny O’Brien | 1934-08-07 | A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers…. |
| In Old Sacramento | Stagecoach Driver | 1946-05-31 | Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his dou… |
| The Gay Desperado | American Detective | 1936-01-01 | Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to be… |
| Steppin’ in Society | Cookie | 1945-07-09 | In this crime comedy, a prominent judge’s vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he i… |
| The Ox-Bow Incident | Monty Smith | 1942-12-04 | Gil Carter and Art Croft ride into a small Nevada town plagued by cattle thieves. Initially suspected of being the rustlers themselves, Carter and Cro… |
| Tall, Dark and Handsome | Biff Sage | 1941-01-24 | Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook…. |
| Midnight Alibi | Babe the Butcher | 1934-07-12 | An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend’s racketeer father…. |
| The Plainsman and the Lady | Al | 1946-11-11 | Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it…. |
| Hold That Co-ed | Slapsy | 1938-09-16 | An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college’s hapless football squad into a championship team…. |
| State’s Attorney | Police Captain Morgan | 1932-05-20 | Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster … |
| The Public Defender | Doc | 1931-08-01 | A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company’s funds…. |
| The Parson of Panamint | Jake Waldren | 1941-07-25 | As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western “boom town” of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield (Ruggles) recal… |
| No Time To Marry | Sergeant | 1938-02-05 | In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a “big scoop… |
| Maker of Men | Gabby | 1931-08-03 | Bob plays football badly so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy and his school reject him. He joins a rival college team and aims to defea… |
| Fifty Roads to Town | Tom | 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…. |
| Day of Reckoning | Harry | 1933-10-26 | In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-r… |
| Riffraff | Belcher | 1936-01-03 | Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him an… |
| Angel’s Holiday | Sgt. Murphy | 1937-06-07 | Lively June (Jane Withers), teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett (Jon Qualen), who calls her “Angel,” becomes involved in intrigue cente… |
| My Lucky Star | Louie | 1938-09-09 | George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store’s sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertise… |
| Among the Missing | Capt. W.F. ‘Big Bill’ Connors | 1934-09-25 | Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderl… |
| The Ghost That Walks Alone | Sheriff Slim Carson | 1944-02-10 | Honeymooners find a dead radio producer in their suite…. |
| Mississippi | Hefty | 1935-03-22 | A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart’s honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, ac… |
| Calm Yourself | Detective Roscoe | 1935-06-28 | A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations…. |
| In Old Chicago | Mitch | 1938-04-15 | The O’Leary brothers — honest Jack and roguish Dion — become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire…. |
| Terror Aboard | Boatswain | 1933-04-14 | An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened…. |
| The Sky’s the Limit | Dock Foreman (uncredited) | 1943-07-13 | Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron’s personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly fall… |
| Wife, Doctor and Nurse | Bill | 1937-09-17 | Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him…. |
| Saturday’s Millions | Doc Maloney, Trainer | 1933-09-30 | Jim Fowler is Western University’s football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim’s father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainte… |
| Super-Sleuth | Motorcycle Cop | 1937-07-16 | A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes…. |
| Murder in the Music Hall | Hobarth | 1946-04-10 | An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder…. |
| Quick Millions | Sheriff | 1939-08-25 | In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon…. |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Florabelle’s Father | 1938-03-18 | Rebecca’s Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secr… |
| Each Dawn I Die | Garsky | 1939-07-22 | A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter’s criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the re… |
| To Mary – with Love | Drunk | 1936-08-01 | Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keepin… |
| Big Jim McLain | Mr. Lexiter | 1952-08-30 | House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though… |
| Barbary Coast Gent | Jake Compton | 1944-09-01 | Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He disc… |
| Toughest Man in Arizona | 1952-10-10 | Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring … | |
| Summer Storm | Orloff | 1944-07-14 | It’s a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an… |
| The Gay Deception | Bell Captain | 1935-09-13 | Mirabel wins a $5,000 lottery which will enable her to live like a queen in New York. There she meets Sandro, a bellboy who is really a prince, so she… |
| Ali Baba Goes to Town | Captain | 1937-10-29 | While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler’s comedy–… |
| Broadway Serenade | Reynolds, a Drunk | 1939-04-07 | A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer … |
| Shadow of Doubt | Lt. Sackville | 1935-02-15 | When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim’s fiancee…. |
| Remember? | Policeman | 1939-12-19 | Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff… |
| Wake Up and Live | McCabe | 1937-08-23 | Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell…. |
| Slave Ship | Drunk | 1937-06-16 | Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo…. |
| Grand Slam | Man Who Speaks Final Line of the Film | 1933-02-22 | A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a “system” for winning at contract bridge…. |
| The Women in His Life | Paul, Perez’s Second Bodyguard | 1933-12-08 | An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him…. |
| Something for the Boys | Defense Plant Foreman (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… |
| Robin Hood of El Dorado | Wilson | 1936-03-17 | In the 1840’s Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and… |
| Edison, the Man | Sheriff | 1940-05-10 | 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 Yor… |
| This Is My Affair | Bowler | 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… |
| Yellow Sky | Drunk (uncredited) | 1948-12-24 | In 1867, a gang led by James “Stretch” Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sk… |
| Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence | Empire State Building Guard | 1939-11-03 | New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona…. |
| Dakota | Captain Spotts | 1945-12-15 | In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra “Sandy” Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sand… |
| Torrid Zone | Daniels | 1940-05-18 | A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl…. |
| Maybe It’s Love | Expressman (uncredited) | 1935-01-12 | Director William C. McGann’s 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they’re wed…. |
| Star Dust | Mac, Amalgamated Lab Tech | 1940-04-06 | When the studios reject her because she”s too young, a young actress sets out to build a career on her own…. |
| Charlie Chan’s Courage | Undetermined Role | 1934-07-06 | Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begin… |
| Queen Christina | Swedish Soldier Betting on 6 (uncredited) | 1933-12-26 | Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose betw… |
| Danger – Love at Work | NYC policeman | 1937-09-30 | A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family…. |
| Lilac Time | (uncredited) | 1928-10-18 | In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome new… |
| A Very Honorable Guy | Butler | 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… |
| Gone with the Wind | Yankee Deserter | 1939-12-15 | The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen…. |
| On Your Toes | Variety Club Bartender | 1939-10-14 | A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer…. |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | 1st Deputy (uncredited) | 1936-04-09 | Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the bi… |
| You Can’t Have Everything | Truck Driver | 1937-08-02 | Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon t… |
| The Daring Young Man | 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 … |
| Carnival | Policeman | 1935-02-15 | “Chick” Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names “Poochy.” His fat… |
| They Drive by Night | Pete Haig (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… |
| Spring Parade | Headwaiter | 1940-09-27 | In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she wil… |
| Castle on the Hudson | Guard (uncredited) | 1940-02-17 | A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden…. |
Paul Hurst Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Hazards of Helen Ep13: The Escape on the Fast Freight | Director | 1915-02-05 | Two yeggmen hold up Helen, on night duty at Ferndale, lock her in a closet, and escape. Later, standing on a bridge over the freight yards, Helen sees… |
| Branded a Bandit | Director | 1924-12-19 | A miner has struck it rich and gives some ore to cowhand Jess Dean to take to his granddaughter. But Horse Williams has the miner shot and uses the or… |
| A Lass of the Lumberlands | Director | 1916-01-02 | 15-episode serial directed by Paul Hurst and J.P. McGowan…. |
| The Demon Rider | Director | 1925-11-02 | A ranch foreman captures a notorious gang of gold thieves. He ties them up and leaves them for a pursuing posse while he goes out to find the gold the… |
| Haunted Range | Director | 1926-01-11 | The hero must solve the murder of his benefactor within six months in order to inherit a valuable ranch…. |
| Lightning Bryce | Director | 1919-10-14 | Two prospectors, one the father of Skye “Lightning” Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, find a large gold deposit belonging to an Indian tr… |
| The Passing of Wolf MacLean | Director | 1924-11-29 | Addicted to heavy gambling and strong alcohol, Bert Granger owns a saloon in which his children, Benny and pretty Alice, entertain the patrons. One ni… |
| Blue Streak O’Neil | Director | 1926-12-15 | On a mission to discover the identity of the rustlers of the cattle on Britton ranch, Blue Streak O’Neil exposes the villains mingling with the sherif… |
| A Western Engagement | Director | 1925-04-26 | Dick Rawlins, a cowpoke on the Jackson ranch, is in love with Inez, the beautiful daughter of the ranchowner; planning to ask Inez to marry him, Dick … |
| Battling Bunyan | Director | 1924-02-11 | A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn’t have the money. In order to come up with some quick cash, he de… |
| The Were-Tiger | Director | 1925-05-31 | A jungle drama about a woman who befriends a tiger…. |
| The Midnight Message | Director | 1926-07-19 | Johnny works as a Western Union messenger, while his mother earns a meager living with an old sewing machine. One day he interrupts a robbery, scares … |
| The Tiger’s Trail | Director | 1919-04-20 | A cult of Hindu tiger worshippers and a gang of Western outlaws try to cheat a young woman out of rich mines that belong to her…. |
| Outlaw’s Paradise | Director | 1927-03-01 | Our hero is mistaken for a bandit. Al’s girl Nancy at first believes him to be guilty, but he manage to convince her that the real bandit is McDonald…. |
| The Fighting Ranger | Director | 1926-09-15 | After inheriting his uncle’s ranch, a cowpoke manages to capture a ghost of the range, break up some cattle rustlers, and win the girl…. |
| The Fighting Cub | Director | 1925-07-27 | … |
| The Law of the Snow Country | Director | 1926-04-01 | … |
| The Railroad Raiders | Director | 1917-04-09 | A silent movie serial… |
| Shadows of the West | Director | 1921-08-01 | California cowpuncher Jim Kern and his pal enlist in the war against Germany and, shortly thereafter, meet Frank Akuri, who has pledged to colonize th… |
| Roaring Road | Director | 1926-05-01 | A young racing driver combines the best features of two rival cars, thus producing an automobile which is the best entry in the race. He triumphs over… |
| South of Northern Lights | Director | 1922-11-01 | Falsely accused of murder by a gang that wants to obtain possession of his ranch (on which gold has been discovered) northwestern rancher Jack Hampton… |
| Rangeland | Director | 1922-01-26 | Depury sheriff Ned Williams is sent to capture a cattle thief in the area. The thief turns out to be a young woman, Betty Howard, who steals to keep h… |
| The Heart of a Texan | Director | 1922-04-01 | King Calhoun comes to the aid of “Ma” Jackson, who is fighting to regain control of the family ranch after her husband’s death. Her daughter, June, is… |
| King Fisher’s Roost | Director | 1921-09-01 | Barr Messenger escapes to Mexico after a frame-up. He is in love with Betty Brownlee, who disappears after $10,000 is stolen from the firm she works f… |
| Table Top Ranch | Director | 1922-07-01 | Cowhand John Marvin, in a cattlemen-vs-sheep-men range war, comes to the aid of a pretty and defenseless young sheepherder, Kate Bowers. This angers t… |
| The Further Adventures of Stingaree | Director | 1917-06-01 | The movie serial sequel featuring Stingaree… |
| The Red Signal | Director | 1915-02-13 | Brent, the night operator has been knocked unconscious by a piece of lumber projecting from a passing freight, and has been rendered temporarily insan… |
| Play Straight or Fight | Director | 1918-06-15 | Helen is a strong-minded, upright, two-handed gunwoman and the protector of a younger brother who has fallen under the evil influence of unscrupulous … |
| The Woman in the Web | Director | 1918-04-08 | An adventure serial released in 1918… |
| Golden Silence | Director | 1923-03-19 | Sam Corwin, stage line owner and camp bully, makes unwelcome love to Polly, daughter of an old prospector. The old man drives him off the place at gun… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Railroad Raiders | Writer | 1917-04-09 | A silent movie serial… |
| Rangeland | Writer | 1922-01-26 | Depury sheriff Ned Williams is sent to capture a cattle thief in the area. The thief turns out to be a young woman, Betty Howard, who steals to keep h… |
| The Heart of a Texan | Scenario Writer | 1922-04-01 | King Calhoun comes to the aid of “Ma” Jackson, who is fighting to regain control of the family ranch after her husband’s death. Her daughter, June, is… |
| King Fisher’s Roost | Story | 1921-09-01 | Barr Messenger escapes to Mexico after a frame-up. He is in love with Betty Brownlee, who disappears after $10,000 is stolen from the firm she works f… |
| King Fisher’s Roost | Scenario Writer | 1921-09-01 | Barr Messenger escapes to Mexico after a frame-up. He is in love with Betty Brownlee, who disappears after $10,000 is stolen from the firm she works f… |
| Table Top Ranch | Story | 1922-07-01 | Cowhand John Marvin, in a cattlemen-vs-sheep-men range war, comes to the aid of a pretty and defenseless young sheepherder, Kate Bowers. This angers t… |
| Table Top Ranch | Scenario Writer | 1922-07-01 | Cowhand John Marvin, in a cattlemen-vs-sheep-men range war, comes to the aid of a pretty and defenseless young sheepherder, Kate Bowers. This angers t… |
| Branded a Bandit | Story | 1924-12-19 | A miner has struck it rich and gives some ore to cowhand Jess Dean to take to his granddaughter. But Horse Williams has the miner shot and uses the or… |
| Branded a Bandit | Scenario Writer | 1924-12-19 | A miner has struck it rich and gives some ore to cowhand Jess Dean to take to his granddaughter. But Horse Williams has the miner shot and uses the or… |
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