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Purnell Pratt (October 20, 1885 – July 25, 1941) was an American film actor. He appeared in 114 films between 1914 and 1941. He was born in Bethel, Illinois and died in Hollywood, California.
Purnell Pratt Biography / Wiki
| Name | Purnell Pratt |
| Also Know | Purnell B. Pratt |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Bethel, Illinois, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1885-10-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 55 |
| Deathday | 1941-07-25 |
Purnell Pratt Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Secret Witness | Capt. McGowan | 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… |
| The Trespasser | Hector Ferguson | 1929-11-11 | A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives … |
| Up for Murder | William Winter | 1931-05-26 | Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper’s editor in a fight over the publisher’s mistress, who is also the paper’s society editor…. |
| The Public Defender | John Kirk | 1931-08-01 | A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company’s funds…. |
| Join the Marines | Col. J. B. Denbrough | 1937-01-25 | New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel’s daughter he gets kicked off the tea… |
| A Shriek in the Night | Inspector Russell | 1933-07-22 | Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell fro… |
| Behind the Green Lights | Detective Lt. Jim Kennedy | 1935-03-11 | A police detective’s (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer)…. |
| The Roadhouse Murder | Inspector William Agnew | 1932-04-28 | After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news. Eric Lin… |
| Ladies Crave Excitement | Amos Starke | 1935-06-21 | Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures…. |
| Road to Paradise | Inspector Updike | 1930-07-20 | Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite…. |
| Red Haired Alibi | Regan | 1932-10-20 | A young girl new to the big city gets a job as a man’s companion. What she doesn’t know is that the man is a notorious gangster…. |
| Come On, Rangers | Senator Harvey | 1938-11-21 | A Texas Ranger (Roy Rogers) and his pals come out of forced retirement to do what the cavalry cannot…. |
| The Mystery Squadron | Lafe Johnson | 1933-12-21 | Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Sq… |
| The Gay Diplomat | Colonel George Gorin | 1931-08-22 | Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one qu… |
| Common Clay | Richard Fullerton | 1930-08-01 | Young Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family. She falls in love with the Fullerton’s handsome young son. But he leaves he… |
| Lawful Larceny | Judge Perry | 1930-08-17 | When Marion Corsey’s husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedicates herself to recovering the money…. |
| The Gorilla | The Stranger | 1930-11-02 | A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film)… |
| The Prodigal | Rodman Farraday | 1931-02-21 | An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family…. |
| Straight from the Shoulder | James McBride | 1936-08-28 | A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son…. |
| Alibi | Sgt. Pete Manning | 1929-04-20 | Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls… |
| Emma | Haskins | 1932-01-02 | When Fred Smith’s wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple’s three children, cares also for the family’s new addition…. |
| Painted Faces | Foreman of Jury | 1929-11-19 | After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a troupe member. At his trial, Hermann, a Scandinavia… |
| Grand Ole Opry | Attorney General | 1940-06-25 | Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians…. |
| Ladies of the Big House | John Hartman | 1931-12-26 | A woman (Sylvia Sidney) tries to save her husband (Gene Raymond) from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn’t commit… |
| Paid | Edward Gilder | 1930-12-30 | Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn’t commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conv… |
| Rendezvous at Midnight | The Mayor – Hamilton | 1935-02-11 | There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especially the Police Commissioner’s current paramour, who … |
| Dancing Feet | Silas P. Jones | 1936-01-20 | Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfath… |
| Midshipman Jack | Commandant. Rogers | 1933-09-22 | Director Christy Cabanne’s 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy…. |
| $1000 a Minute | Charlie, the Editor | 1935-10-21 | Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can’t spend $720,000 in twelve hours…. |
| I Cover the Waterfront | John Phelps | 1933-05-19 | An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler’s daughter…. |
| Midnight Lovers | Wibley | 1926-10-25 | During World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called back into service and leaves for the battlefield. Not… |
| Puttin’ on the Ritz | George Barnes | 1930-03-01 | A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are…. |
| Under Suspicion | Frank Rogers | 1937-11-22 | Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes. Naturally, … |
| The Winning Ticket | Mr. Powers | 1935-02-08 | A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife…. |
| Waterfront Lady | D.A. Shaw | 1935-10-04 | When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers… |
| Is Everybody Happy? | Stage Manager | 1929-10-19 | It is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, except for “St…. |
| The Chief | Al Morgan | 1933-11-03 | The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father’s footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians…. |
| Murder Goes to College | Arthur L. McShean | 1937-02-24 | Whodunit in a college setting…. |
| False Faces | Jefferson Howe | 1932-10-12 | The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicag… |
| The Silver Horde | Wayne Wayland | 1930-10-24 | A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll…. |
| Frisco Waterfront | Dr. Stevens | 1935-12-03 | As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponen… |
| The Lady Who Lied | Ahmed | 1925-07-12 | During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virginia Valli). Their romance is dera… |
| Let’s Make a Million | Gilbert | 1936-09-01 | A wealthy mama’s boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket…. |
| The Unwritten Law | Stephen McBain | 1932-11-26 | A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electr… |
| Bachelor Apartment | Herbert ‘Herb’ Carraway | 1931-04-15 | A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews…. |
| Dance, Fools, Dance | Parker | 1931-02-07 | When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago’s upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter… |
| Pick Up | Prosecuting Attorney | 1933-03-24 | The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, sh… |
| Midnight Alibi | Wilson | 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…. |
| Death Flies East | Dr. Landers | 1935-02-28 | Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inma… |
| Red Salute | Gen. Van Allen | 1935-09-12 | The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and … |
| Fast Life | Berton Hall | 1929-09-01 | A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of t… |
| Seven Keys to Baldpate | John Bland | 1917-10-16 | A writer bets a friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours. The friends takes the bet, and gives him the keys to his Baldpate Inn, which… |
| Colorado Sunset | Mr. Hall | 1939-07-30 | When his well-meaning sidekick (Smiley Burnette) buys a cow farm instead of a cattle ranch, singing cowpoke Gene Autry prepares to embrace the dairy b… |
| Name the Woman | Forbes | 1934-07-25 | Directed by Albert S. Rogell. With Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson…. |
| Scarface | Mr. Garston, publisher | 1932-04-09 | A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life…. |
| Grand Hotel | Zinnowitz | 1932-05-25 | Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache…. |
| Night of Mystery | John F. X. Markham | 1937-05-21 | One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance… |
| The Witching Hour | District Attorney Robinson | 1934-04-26 | Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes… |
| The Return of Sophie Lang | Thomas Chadwick | 1936-06-18 | In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London. She soon finds a jo… |
| The Spider | Inspector Riley | 1931-09-27 | Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occur… |
| Wedding Present | Howard Van Dorn | 1936-10-09 | Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great… |
| King of Gamblers | Strohm | 1937-04-22 | A fast moving and low budget crime drama seasoned with mystery & comedy…. |
| Wives Never Know | Higgins | 1936-09-18 | Homer Bigelow has an ideal marriage, with a wife who loves him very much as does he in return. Hilarity ensues when, his wife and him take “marital a… |
| The Locked Door | Police Officer | 1929-11-16 | On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines… |
| The Casino Murder Case | Markham | 1935-03-15 | When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the … |
| The Famous Ferguson Case | George M. Ferguson | 1932-04-19 | A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall aft… |
| Five Star Final | Robert French | 1931-09-26 | An unscrupulous newspaper editor searches for headlines at any cost…. |
| The Hell Cat | Butler | 1934-06-16 | Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulte… |
| Hollywood Boulevard | Mr. Steinman | 1936-08-20 | With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to w… |
| It’s in the Air | Horace McNab | 1935-10-10 | Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, bu… |
| Sinners’ Holiday | Detective Sikes (uncredited) | 1930-10-11 | Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-u… |
| Traveling Husbands | J.C. Wilson | 1931-08-15 | A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit…. |
| A Night at the Opera | The Mayor of New York (uncredited) | 1935-11-15 | The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera sin… |
| Murder with Pictures | Editor | 1936-09-24 | Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for t… |
| Crimson Romance | Franklyn Pierce | 1934-10-12 | After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob… |
| On With the Show! | Sam Bloom | 1929-07-13 | With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the l… |
| School for Girls | Inspector Jameson | 1934-03-22 | After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However,… |
| The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi | Doctor | 1933-10-25 | A campus flirt who has been “pinned” by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn’t have time for such divers… |
| Diamond Jim | Physician | 1935-09-01 | A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon “Diamond” Jim Brady…. |
| Lady Be Careful | Father | 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… |
| The Billion Dollar Scandal | Senate Committee Chairman | 1933-01-06 | An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss’s daughter…. |
| Ringside Maisie | Dr. Taylor | 1941-08-01 | Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who’s been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxi… |
| High, Wide and Handsome | Col. Blake | 1937-07-21 | The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when the… |
| Beyond Victory | 1931-04-03 | Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind…. | |
| Magnificent Obsession | Hastings, Merrick’s Attorney | 1935-12-30 | A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man’s death…. |
| Rosalie | Ship Captain (uncredited) | 1937-12-24 | West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom…. |
| Headline Shooter | Eddie Edmunds – City Editor | 1933-07-28 | A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot…. |
| Doctors Don’t Tell | 1941-09-22 | Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethi… | |
| Lazy River | Mr. Lodge – Attorney | 1934-03-16 | Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring…. |
| The Bands Plays On | Judge Bone | 1934-12-21 | A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars…. |
| A Wicked Woman | Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited) | 1934-12-07 | A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family’s condition while living with the secret that she killed… |
| Son of a Sailor | Captain Briggs | 1933-11-29 | A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane…. |
| The Public Enemy | Officer Powers (uncredited) | 1931-04-23 | Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blo… |
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