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Edward Russell Hicks (June 4, 1895 – June 1, 1957) was an American film actor.
Born in 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland, Hicks appeared in nearly 300 films between 1915 and 1956. His first appearance was an uncredited role in The Birth of a Nation (1915). He often appeared as a smooth-talking confidence man, as in the W.C. Fields film The Bank Dick (1940). Distinguished, suave and a consummate actor, Hicks played a variety of judges, corrupt officials, businessmen and attorneys, working in a variety of mediums almost until his death. Hicks appeared once in the syndicated western television series The Cisco Kid as an uncle of the Gail Davis character, whom he threatens to disinherit if she marries a known gangster.
He died in Los Angeles, California, from a heart attack.

Russell Hicks Biography / Wiki
Name | Russell Hicks |
Also Know | Edward Russell Hicks, R. E. Hicks, R.E. Hicks |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
Date of Birth | 1895-06-04 |
Age(as in 2022) | 61 |
Deathday | 1957-06-01 |
Russell Hicks Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Once Upon a Honeymoon | Angel Chief | 1956-01-01 | Thanks to the collaboration between American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) and Angels from Heaven a song writing working on his latest musical ca… |
The Case of the Tremendous Trifle | Colonel | 1944-03-14 | This documentary short film depicts the importance of tiny ball bearings in the ability of a nation to carry out warfare. As ball bearings are necessa… |
As You Were | Col. Lockwood | 1951-10-05 | Military comedy starring William Tracy and Joe Sawyer. 1951…. |
A Dangerous Adventure | Allen | 1937-07-21 | This drama chronicles the education of a naive, rich young woman who inherits a steel mill. To help her keep it running she unites with a man. Meanwhi… |
King of the Mounties | Marshal Carleton | 1942-10-17 | King of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada. They just want to clear the way with a new futuristic p… |
Apology for Murder | Harvey Kirkland | 1945-09-27 | Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman’s young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit h… |
Honeymoon Limited | Slug Gorman (alias Colonel Carver) | 1935-07-01 | A publisher bets an author that he won’t be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco…. |
Secret Valley | Lawyer Austin Martin | 1937-01-15 | Rancher entertains girl in Nevada to get a divorce. Then her gangster husband shows up…. |
Here Comes Happiness | John Vance | 1941-03-14 | Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor b… |
Dodge City Trail | Kenyon Phillips | 1936-12-12 | With the increasing popularity of Republic’s sagebrush crooner Gene Autry, rival company Columbia found it necessary to add a musical element to this … |
Blue Grass of Kentucky | James B. Armistead | 1950-01-22 | The story revolves around a colt born in Kentucky and named “Blue Grass”. and the training of the colt to win the Kentuck Derby. and how all of that a… |
Charlie Chan in Shanghai | James Andrews | 1935-10-11 | When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring…. |
The Port of 40 Thieves | Charles Farrington | 1944-08-13 | A widow confesses she murdered her husband and kills two more people before her stepdaughter and an attorney prove her wrong…. |
The Hunted | Dan Meredith, Chief of Detectives | 1948-04-07 | A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend – but she claims she’s being framed…. |
A Game of Death | Mr. Whitney | 1945-11-23 | A shipwreck victim washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter’s Caribbean island…. |
I Cheated the Law | District Attorney Randolph | 1949-03-04 | An attorney (Tom Conway) learns he was duped into being his gangster murder client’s (Steve Brodie) alibi…. |
Bowery Battalion | Melvin Hatfield | 1951-01-24 | Slip, Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army…. |
The Big Shot | Martin Drake | 1937-07-23 | A small-town veterinarian inherits $2 million from an uncle he barely knew. His attempts to help mankind don’t go smoothly…. |
Sea Spoilers | Phil Morgan | 1936-09-30 | Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Instead, he is replaced by Lie… |
Hitler- Dead or Alive | Samuel Thornton | 1942-11-12 | A team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them…. |
Captain America | Mayor Randolph | 1944-02-05 | Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of … |
The Wildcatter | Tom Frayne | 1937-06-06 | Eager to take advantage of a new oil boom, “Lucky” Conlon leaves his gas station and diner for Texas, with his wife Helen’s blessing. In Texas, Lucky … |
Flame of Barbary Coast | Cyrus Danver, Owner San Francisco Star | 1945-05-28 | Duke Fergus falls for Ann ‘Flaxen’ Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell… |
Living on Velvet | Major at Flying Field | 1935-03-02 | A lay-about falls for his best friend’s fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of … |
Mr. Walkie Talkie | Col. Lockwood | 1952-11-28 | Military comedy about two sergeant buddies constantly getting into trouble…. |
It Happened Out West | Cooley | 1937-05-02 | Bank employee assigned to tell Arizona rancher her property is no good gets suspicious when her foreman agrees. Turns out his banker boss and the fore… |
Swanee River | Andrew McDowell | 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… |
Before Morning | Jim Nichols | 1933-10-18 | A night of love, intrigue, death and blackmail leaves stage-star Elise Manning’s fate at stake in a conflict with the unscrupulous Doctor Gruell. A re… |
The Flying Saucer | Hank Thorn | 1950-01-04 | The CIA sends playboy Mike Trent to Alaska with agent Vee Langley, posing as his “nurse,” to investigate flying saucer sightings. At first, installed … |
Thunder in the Night | Prefect of Police | 1935-09-16 | A whodunit set in Budapest, starring Edmund Lowe as a detective investigating the murder of an unemployed vaudeville actor…. |
Enemy Agent | Lyman Scott | 1940-04-18 | A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are…. |
Mushrooms | President of Pure Food Association (uncredited) | 1934-02-14 | Harry Gribbon is Horace, a man with one passion in life: Mushrooms…. |
The Real Glory | Capt. George Manning | 1939-09-29 | In the wake of the Spanish-American war, military doctor Bill Canavan (Cooper) arrives at a war-torn Filipino outpost. Infested with cholera and under… |
Lady Tubbs | Mr. Ronald Ash-Orcutt | 1935-07-02 | A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene…. |
On Again-Off Again | George Dilwig | 1937-07-09 | This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy†Hobbs (Wheeler) and Clau… |
Fugitives for a Night | Maurice Tenwright | 1938-09-23 | A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive…. |
Kentucky | Thad Goodwin Sr. – 1861 | 1938-12-30 | Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with … |
Earthbound | Prosecutor | 1940-06-06 | A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice…. |
A Close Call for Boston Blackie | Attorney Harcourt (uncredited) | 1946-01-24 | Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he’s killed in Blackie’s apartment and … |
Follow the Band | Jeremiah K. Barton | 1943-04-01 | A farmer from Vermont travels to New York and becomes a successful singer in a nightclub…. |
The Maverick | Col. Hook | 1952-12-14 | Wild Bill Elliott must escort a gang of killer cattleman who have been terrorizing homesteaders…. |
Murder in the Clouds | Taggert | 1934-12-15 | Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who’s in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He’s ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy he… |
She Gets Her Man | Mayor | 1945-01-12 | The corny daughter (Joan Davis) of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer…. |
Pacific Rendezvous | John Carter | 1942-05-21 | A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty…. |
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest | Robin Hood – Earl of Huntington | 1946-02-21 | Robin Hood’s swashbuckling son (Cornel Wilde) comes to the rescue when England’s boy-king is captured by the evil, power-hungry William of Pembroke (H… |
The Big Guy | Lawson | 1939-12-22 | A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty…. |
Follow the Fleet | Jim Nolan | 1936-02-20 | When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake’s buddy… |
Ladies Crave Excitement | Bert Taylor | 1935-06-21 | Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures…. |
One Sunday Afternoon | Tredway | 1948-12-25 | The third film version of James Hagan’s play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy Ma… |
The Plainsman and the Lady | Sen. Twin | 1946-11-11 | Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it…. |
Gentlemen Are Born | Newspaper Editor | 1934-11-17 | A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn t… |
Devil Dogs of the Air | Captain | 1935-02-09 | Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory…. |
The Woman in Red | Defense Attorney Clayton | 1935-02-16 | A polo player’s wife becomes the mystery woman in a Long Island horsy-set murder trial…. |
Woman Trap | Dodd | 1936-03-06 | A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the m… |
15 Maiden Lane | Judge Graham | 1936-10-16 | Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves…. |
Old Oklahoma Plains | Colonel Charles Bigelow | 1952-07-25 | One-time cavalry officer Rex Allen, between jobs as a star rodeo rider, is asked by his former commanding officer, Colonel Bigelow, to help settle a d… |
All That I Have | Jess Northrup | 1951-10-01 | Dr. Charles Greyson is a famous and wealthy former surgeon. His nephews have taken him to court to challenge his competency, due to his recent inexpli… |
Fun on a Weekend | John Biddle | 1947-05-15 | Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter’s belief that a person can acquire wealth sim… |
The Shanghai Chest | Frank Bronson | 1948-07-11 | Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man’s finger prints show up at all three murder sites…. |
Smoky River Serenade | J. Bricket Armstrong | 1947-08-20 | The ramshackle Smoky River Ranch is all that stands in the way of a developer and a big real-estate deal, but the old man who owns the ranch won’t sel… |
The Pilgrim Lady | Thackery Gibbs | 1947-01-22 | Dennis Carter, the head of a detective agency, and his secretary, Henrietta Rankin, get involved in the murder of a scandal-peddling, blackmailing rad… |
Sealed Lips | Dr. Charles Evans | 1942-01-02 | There’s something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn’t sound much like himself. … |
Tarzan’s New York Adventure | Judge Abbotson | 1942-05-01 | Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane… |
Hold That Ghost | Bannister | 1941-08-08 | Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster’s will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when… |
Western Union | Provisional Governor | 1941-02-21 | When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern… |
Dark Alibi | Warden Cameron | 1946-05-25 | After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the… |
Race Street | Easy Mason | 1948-09-11 | A night-club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend…. |
Love Thy Neighbor | Harrington | 1940-12-27 | Capitalizing on the famous radio ‘feud’ between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each oth… |
Grand Jury | Jim Hanify | 1936-08-07 | When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it’s up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty and… |
Ticket to Paradise | Colton | 1936-06-24 | A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia…. |
The Master Key | Police Chief Michael J. O’Brien | 1945-04-24 | Before the outbreak of WWII, Nazi sympathizers plot to undermine America…. |
To the Shores of Tripoli | Major Wilson | 1942-11-09 | Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier. Academy Award Nominations… |
First Yank into Tokyo | Gen. T.W. Stanton | 1945-09-05 | A U.S. pilot (Tom Neal) undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist’s (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets…. |
Midnight Taxi | Barney Flagg | 1937-04-04 | A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters…. |
Laughing at Trouble | Cyrus Hall | 1936-12-11 | A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the re… |
Junior G-Men | Col. Barton | 1940-11-01 | A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the … |
Overland Telegraph | Col. Marvin | 1951-12-15 | Not to be confused with the 1929 film The Overland Telegraph, this Western from director Lesley Selander stars Tim Holt as a cowboy appropriately name… |
The Westland Case | Mr. Woodbury | 1937-10-30 | A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room–and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside…. |
Man of Conflict | Mr. Murdock | 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… |
Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc. | Colonel Barton | 1940-10-01 | The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men. Billy, the leader of the Dead End Kids, learns… |
The Bank Dick | J. Frothingham Waterbury | 1940-11-29 | Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he’s occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank g… |
Exposed | Col. Bentry | 1947-09-08 | A private eye (Adele Mara) and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client…. |
Pick a Star | Mr. Stone | 1937-05-21 | A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man…. |
Fit for a King | Editor Hardwick | 1937-09-01 | Newspaper reporter “Scoops” (Brown) is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio (Harry Davenport). T… |
The Man Who Cried Wolf | Prosecuting Attorney | 1937-08-29 | An actor plots “the perfect crime” by confessing to murders he didn’t commit…. |
Kentucky Jubilee | T.J. Hoarsely | 1951-05-18 | A movie director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film…. |
Happiness Ahead | Jim Meehan | 1934-10-27 | Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother’s choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washe… |
While the Patient Slept | Dr. Jay | 1935-03-09 | A murder occurs when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch…. |
Sporting Blood | ‘Sneak’ OBrien | 1940-07-11 | Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood’s daughter Linda. But as the bi… |
The Great Lie | Colonel Harriston | 1941-04-05 | After a newlywed’s husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child…. |
Johnny Apollo | District Attorney | 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… |
The Return of Frank James | Prosecutor | 1940-08-10 | Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse’s killers, the back-shooting Fords…. |
Babbitt | Commissioner Lyle Gurnee | 1934-12-08 | Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George … |
Gay Blades | Buxton | 1946-01-25 | New York hockey player Andy Buell is approached by Hollywood talent scout Nancy Davis to play the hunk lead in “The Behemoth” but he would prefer she … |
King of the Cowboys | Texas Governor Shuville | 1943-04-09 | Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from b… |
Dante’s Inferno | Prosecuting Attorney | 1935-08-23 | A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family’s wellbeing…. |
Girl Overboard | Sam Le Maire | 1937-02-01 | A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder…. |
Joe Smith, American | Mr. Edgerton | 1942-02-01 | Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnap… |
The Toast of New York | Lawyer | 1937-07-22 | After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he str… |
Swing Parade of 1946 | Daniel Warren Sr. | 1946-03-19 | The Three Stooges help an aspiring singer, Carol Lawrence, and a nightclub owner, Danny Warren, find love. It features dizzy dishwashers Moe, Larry, a… |
Criminals of the Air | Kurt Feldon | 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…. |
Doctors Don’t Tell | Supt. Duff | 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… |
Louisiana Hayride | H.C.Forbes | 1944-07-13 | A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings…. |
The Mortal Storm | Rector | 1940-06-20 | The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided a… |
The Little Foxes | William Marshall | 1941-08-29 | The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddons née Hubbard ha… |
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | Mr. Barrows | 1939-04-04 | Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. … |
Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery | Harry Walsh | 1941-03-24 | Like the first entry in Columbia’s “Ellery Queen” series, Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoram… |
Special Investigator | Inspector Perkett | 1936-05-08 | A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed…. |
23 1/2 Hours Leave | Capt. Barker | 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… |
Pacific Blackout | Commanding Officer | 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… |
The Case of the Howling Dog | Clinton Foley | 1934-09-22 | A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry’s office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign … |
The Firebird | Mr. Beyer, the Stage Manager | 1934-11-03 | Prohibited from seeing her actor sweetheart Herman Brandt by her tyrannical parents, sweet young Vienesse lass Mariette defies authority by regularly … |
Arkansas Judge | Hetty’s Attorney | 1941-01-28 | Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander…. |
Virginia City | Armistead | 1940-03-23 | Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confedera… |
The Blue Bird | Daddy Tyl | 1940-01-15 | An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of ha… |
Lady in a Jam | Carter | 1942-06-19 | A psychiatrist’s patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather’s abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of … |
The Secret Bride | John F. Holdstock | 1934-12-22 | Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of b… |
The Black Arrow | Sir Harry Shelton | 1948-03-18 | A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is… |
East of the River | Warden | 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…. |
The Plunderers | Cavalry Colonel | 1948-10-30 | Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden (George Cleveland) at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pi… |
Strictly in the Groove | RC Saunders | 1942-11-20 | College student, cattle baron, confused love story…. |
Bunker Bean | A. C. Jones | 1936-06-26 | A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon…. |
Assigned to Danger | Thomas A. Rivers (uncredited) | 1948-05-19 | A gang of bank robbers is pursued by an insurance investigator…. |
Buck Privates Come Home | Mr. Appleby | 1947-04-04 | Two ex-soldiers return from overseas–one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up runnin… |
Getting Gertie’s Garter | Board Member (uncredited) | 1945-11-27 | Dennis O’Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O’Keefe’s former girl friend, exotic dancer Marie McDonald, has in her possession an… |
Tennessee Johnson | Lincoln’s Emissary | 1942-12-01 | The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson’s boyhood and covers his early … |
The Velvet Touch | Actor ‘Judge Brack’ | 1948-07-13 | After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt…. |
Scarlet Street | J.J. Hogarth | 1945-12-25 | Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she’s really only… |
Clipped Wings | Capt. Morton | 1937-12-02 | Mickey Lofton, young half-brother of famed war-aviator Jerry, fails in his attempt to enter the Canadian Air Corps, because of his fear of thunderstor… |
Buy Me That Town | Malcolm | 1941-10-03 | A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The… |
No, No, Nanette | ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson | 1940-12-19 | Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Att… |
Web of Danger | Gallagher | 1947-06-10 | Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O’Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly… |
A Man Betrayed | C.R. Pringle | 1941-03-07 | Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is ac… |
Laughing Irish Eyes | Silk Taylor | 1936-03-04 | An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting…. |
Partners in Crime | 1937-10-08 | Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor…. | |
Air Raid Wardens | Major Scanlon | 1943-04-04 | Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant…. |
Fingers at the Window | Dr. Chandley | 1942-04-22 | In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic…. |
We Were Dancing | Mr. Bryce-Carew | 1942-04-30 | A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American s… |
The Woman of the Town | Publisher | 1943-12-31 | Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Master… |
7th Cavalry | Col. Kellogg | 1956-12-01 | An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers’s body after Little Big Horn…. |
Sweet Music | Mayor of New York City | 1935-02-23 | A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York…. |
The Big Hangover | Steve Hughes | 1950-05-26 | A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol…. |
The Big Broadcast of 1938 | Capt. Stafford | 1938-02-11 | The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts…. |
The Three Musketeers | Porthos | 1939-02-17 | A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D’Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king’s Musketeers. He is taken under … |
The Big Store | Arthur Hastings | 1941-06-20 | A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store’s crooked manager…. |
Great Guns | Gen. Burns | 1941-10-10 | Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he’s drafted…. |
The Parson of Panamint | Prosecuting Attorney | 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… |
Someone to Remember | Mr. Stanton | 1943-08-21 | An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students, … |
The Gallant Legion | Senator Beale | 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… |
Dive Bomber | Awards Speaker (uncredited) | 1941-08-31 | A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a ste… |
Janie | Col. Lucas – Commander Camp Wingate | 1944-09-02 | Teenage Janie (Joyce Reynolds) falls in love with a private (Robert Hutton) from an Army base opposed by her editor father (Edward Arnold)…. |
Barbary Pirate | Commodore Preble | 1949-11-10 | U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off the pirates as to what’s being shipped where. A f… |
Jiggs and Maggie in Court | Supreme Court Judge | 1948-12-12 | Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip “Bring… |
Boy Trouble | Magistrate | 1939-01-27 | A fussy shopkeeper’s life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys…. |
The General Died at Dawn | No Matches Man (uncredited) | 1936-11-17 | China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O’Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum o… |
The Valley of Decision | Mr. Laurence Gaylord | 1945-05-03 | Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the we… |
Little Miss Broadway | Perry | 1938-07-29 | An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel’s owner doesn’t like the entertainers and wa… |
Three Hearts for Julia | Colonel (uncredited) | 1943-05-21 | When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again…. |
Stanley and Livingstone | Commissioner | 1939-08-18 | When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Afric… |
Gateway | Ernest Porter | 1938-08-05 | Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in h… |
Fifty Roads to Town | Police Official | 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…. |
The Return of October | Taylor | 1948-10-26 | A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie…. |
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President | Mr. Graves | 1939-12-01 | Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their… |
Seven Sinners | First Governor | 1940-10-25 | Beautiful chanteuse ‘Bijou’ (Marlene Dietrich) cascades through Malaysia’s ports of call eventually landing in a handsome lieutenant’s lap. As Bijou ‘… |
Dark Delusion | Mr. Logan (uncredited) | 1947-06-24 | Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents’ dismay…. |
His Butler’s Sister | Sanderson | 1943-11-26 | Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway…. |
The Noose Hangs High | Johnny – Copper Club Manager (uncredited) | 1948-04-05 | Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two… |
The Accusing Finger | Vociferous Pro-Capital Punishment Senator | 1936-11-17 | A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sente… |
Honolulu | Mr. Clifford Jones (uncredited) | 1939-02-03 | Movie star Brooks Mason tries to avoid his fans and spend some weeks on vacation. When Hawaiian plantage-owner George Smith is mistaken by Mason’s fan… |
Blood and Sand | Marquis | 1941-05-30 | Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face re… |
Spendthrift | Attorney | 1936-07-22 | A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all t… |
Bad Little Angel | Maj. Ellwood, newspaper owner (uncredited) | 1939-10-27 | A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town…. |
Go Into Your Dance | Sam Rupert | 1935-04-20 | An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters…. |
Let Them Live | Newspaper Editor | 1937-04-25 | A young man goes up against a crooked town boss…. |
Hollywood Cavalcade | Russell Hicks | 1939-10-13 | Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for … |
Fourteen Hours | Regan, Hotel Manager (uncredited) | 1951-04-01 | A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of … |
Two in the Dark | Police Officer McCord | 1936-01-10 | Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) conne… |
Kidnapped | Bailiff | 1938-05-27 | Robert Louis Stevenson’s hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland…. |
That Certain Age | Scout Leader (uncredited) | 1938-10-06 | Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send h… |
The Judge Steps Out | Judge | 1947-12-15 | A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook…. |
Samson and Delilah | Lord of Ashkelon | 1949-12-21 | When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regr… |
Man-Made Monster | Warden Harris | 1941-03-28 | Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding…. |
Ship Ahoy | Capt. C.V. O’Brien | 1942-04-16 | Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that … |
Lady with Red Hair | Wealthy London Host (uncredited) | 1940-11-30 | An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top…. |
Hotel Imperial | Austrian Officer (uncredited) | 1939-05-11 | It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man’s-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of W… |
You Can’t Run Away from It | Ship Captain (uncredited) | 1956-10-30 | A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career…. |
Till the Clouds Roll By | Producer (uncredited) | 1946-12-05 | Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists,… |
Hotel for Women | Van Ellis | 1939-08-03 | Guests at a women’s residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling…. |
The Hoodlum Saint | Marty Martindale (uncredited) | 1946-04-04 | A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it’s much more difficult to find work than he expected. … |
East Side of Heaven | Hinkle (uncredited) | 1939-04-07 | A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child’s family…. |
Our Leading Citizen | Chairman | 1939-08-23 | Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to t… |
In Old Chicago | Politician in Jack’s Office | 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…. |
You Can’t Take It with You | Kirby’s Attorney (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… |
Ride ‘Em Cowboy | Rodeo Announcer #1 (uncredited) | 1942-02-13 | Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ra… |
Northern Pursuit | Chief Inspector (uncredited) | 1943-11-07 | Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the… |
Espionage | Alfred Hartrix | 1937-02-26 | Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe…. |
We Who Are About to Die | District Attorney Knight (uncredited) | 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… |
Men with Wings | Gen. Marlin | 1938-07-16 | Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. … |
Rulers of the Sea | Mr. Cunard (Uncredited) | 1939-11-08 | The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the … |
Fatal Lady | American Opera House Manager (uncredited) | 1936-05-15 | On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughl… |
The Fountainhead | Banner Board Member (uncredited) | 1949-06-25 | An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to … |
Bathing Beauty | Mr. Allenwood (uncredited) | 1944-06-27 | After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women’s college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her studen… |
If You Could Only Cook | Dillon (uncredited) | 1935-12-30 | An auto engineer (Herbert Marshall) and a professor’s daughter (Jean Arthur) pose as married servants in a mobster’s (Leo Carrillo) mansion…. |
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle | Colonel (uncredited) | 1939-03-29 | In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt… |
Santa Fe Trail | Dr. J. Boyce Russell (uncredited) | 1940-12-20 | As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assign… |
Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages | Extra (uncredited) | 1916-09-04 | The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history…. |
Sergeant York | General (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… |
They Died with Their Boots On | Colonel of 1st Michigan (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… |
Union Pacific | Sergeant (uncredited) | 1939-05-05 | One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opp… |
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