Arthur Rankin

Born: 1895-08-30

Arthur Gardner Rankin (August 30, 1895 – March 23, 1947) was an American film actor.


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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

as Reporter (uncredited)
Released: 1936-04-09

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies...

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Charlie Chan in Reno

as Bellhop
Released: 1939-06-16

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of...

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The Volga Boatman

as Vasili
Released: 1926-05-23

During the Russian Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to...

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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

as Fingerprinter
Released: 1940-01-11

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death....

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20,000 Men a Year

as Reporter
Released: 1939-10-26

Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a...

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Swanee River

as Clerk
Released: 1939-12-29

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who...

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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

as Airways Official
Released: 1939-08-31

Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a...

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The Wild Party

as Party Guest
Released: 1929-04-06

Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party...

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Adventure in Manhattan

as Blackton's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1936-10-08

The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art...

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Rose of Washington Square

as Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
Released: 1939-05-05

Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband...

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News Is Made at Night

as Secretary
Released: 1939-07-20

Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free...

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Here I Am a Stranger

as Man in Newspaper Office
Released: 1939-09-29

The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

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Chicken Wagon Family

as Clerk
Released: 1939-08-10

Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile...

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She Couldn't Take It

as Party Guest
Released: 1935-10-08

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the...

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Wife, Husband and Friend

as Intern
Released: 1939-03-03

Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her...

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The Call of the Canyon

as Virgil Rust
Released: 1923-12-16

Returning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a...

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Case of the Missing Man

as Hank
Released: 1935-10-20

After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his...

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Public Deb No. 1

as Reporter
Released: 1940-09-13

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her...

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The Unwritten Law

as Frank Woods
Released: 1932-11-26

A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose...

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Mexicali Rose

as Loco, the Halfwit
Released: 1929-12-26

The owner of a border town gambling saloon falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she...

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Perfectly Mismated

as uncredited
Released: 1934-11-12

Leon's ex-wife moves into the apartment next to him.

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Walking Down Broadway

as Usher with Package
Released: 1938-03-11

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway...

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The Thrill Hunter

as Roy Lang
Released: 1933-04-30

A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.

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Second Fiddle

as Assistant Director
Released: 1939-06-30

Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back...

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Devil's Squadron

as Stenographer
Released: 1936-04-30

In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed...

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The Wolf of Wall Street

as Frank
Released: 1929-02-09

A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by...

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Remember the Day

as Photographer
Released: 1941-12-25

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls...

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The Fighting Fool

as Bud Collins
Released: 1932-01-20

A sheriff (Tim McCoy) flirts with a local girl (Marceline Day) and chases an outlaw called the...

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Big Town Girl

as Desk Clerk
Released: 1937-12-03

When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the...

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The Dark Swan

as Clifford Raynes
Released: 1924-11-26

An American drama based on a novel

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The Jones Family in Hollywood

as Legion Member (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-02

Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a...

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Domestic Troubles

as Meredith Roberts
Released: 1928-03-28

A Silent film comedy directed by Ray Enright.

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The Crime of Helen Stanley

as Jimmy
Released: 1934-04-20

An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with...

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Hollywood Cavalcade

as Assistant Cameraman
Released: 1939-10-13

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she...

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Walking Back

as Pet Masters
Released: 1928-05-21

Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a...

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Enchantment

as Tommy Corbin
Released: 1921-10-29

The frothy experiences of a vain little flapper. Her father induces an actor friend to become a...

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Love Is News

as Reporter (uncredited)
Released: 1937-02-26

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she...

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Roaming Lady

as Blaney
Released: 1936-05-02

Joyce Reid, a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as...

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After the Dance

as Georgie - Call Boy
Released: 1935-06-25

Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses...

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The Woman Who Did Not Care

as Jeffrey Payne
Released: 1927-07-05

The daughter of a boarding house keeper, Iris Carroll (Tashman) is subjected to the unwanted...

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The Fall of Eve

as Tom Ford Jr
Released: 1929-06-17

Tom Ford, Jr., keeps secret his romance with his father's secretary, Eve Grant. Ford, Sr.,...

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Men of the Night

as Pat Smith
Released: 1934-11-18

"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he...

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Terror Trail

as Bernie Laird, known as 'Little Casino'
Released: 1933-02-02

A gang of horse thieves are able to operate because the crooked local sheriff is in cahoots with...

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The Great Adventure

as Leek's Son
Released: 1921-01-06

An artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must...

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The Copperhead

as Joey
Released: 1920-01-25

A farmer in Illinois played by Lionel Barrymore is recruited by Abraham Lincoln to pose as a...

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Brothers

as Bob Conroy
Released: 1931-05-18

Young orphaned brothers Tom and Bob are separated when Bob is taken to an orphan asylum by the...

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To Have and to Hold

as Lord Cecil
Released: 1922-10-29

King James I gives his consent to the marriage between Lord Carnal and Lady Jocelyn Leigh. Lady...

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Say It with Sables

as Doug Caswell
Released: 1928-07-13

In this silent film, now considered lost, Doug Caswell falls for Irene, his wealthy father's...

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Glad Rag Doll

as Jimmy Fairchild
Released: 1929-05-04

She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the...

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The Sporting Lover

as uncredited
Released: 1926-06-16

Captain Terrance Connaughton loses his stable of horses in a card game with Algernon Cravens.

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The Blood Ship

as Nils
Released: 1927-07-18

A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is...

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Fury of the Jungle

as Would-Be Assassin (uncredited)
Released: 1933-10-23

Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the...

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Midnight Taxi

as Sailor
Released: 1937-04-04

A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of...

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The Public Menace

as Tommy
Released: 1935-09-30

1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster...

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The Truth About Husbands

as Wilfred Brownell
Released: 1920-12-01

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Old Loves and New

as Denny O'Meara
Released: 1926-04-11

Gervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde...

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Submarine

as The Boy
Released: 1928-08-28

Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When...

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The Amateur Wife

as Billy Ferris
Released: 1920-02-22

Her education in a French convent school completed, plain Justine Spencer returns to New York....

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Tearing Through

as Bob Madison
Released: 1925-04-12

Richard Jones is the assistant to the district attorney. He decides to single-handedly expose a...

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Slightly Used

as Gerald
Released: 1927-09-03

Cynthia Martin’s father insists she marry before her two younger sisters Helen and Grace. So,...

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Sun-Up

as Bud
Released: 1925-09-20

When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a...

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Jim the Penman

as Lord Drelincourt
Released: 1921-04-04

A bank clerk forges a check to help his girlfriend's father. He's found out, but instead of...

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Time Out for Romance

as Radio Operator
Released: 1937-02-10

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted...

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Panic on the Air

as Radio Technician
Released: 1936-04-10

A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover...

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Trailing North

as Joe aka Lucky
Released: 1933-05-15

As Powers is dying he tells Lee to look for a man with a girl named Mitzi. Heading north by dog...

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Below the Deadline

as Jimmy Byron
Released: 1929-01-02

Beau Nash is a "gentleman crook" who headquarters his gang of jewel thieves in a run-down...

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Silas Marner

as Lammeter
Released: 1916-02-18

After having been wrongly accused of murder and robbery, a heretofore kindly and gregarious...

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The Hidden Way

as Harry
Released: 1926-07-26

The film tells the tale of three ex-cons who finally go straight, through the redemptive power...

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Ships of the Night

as Donald Hearne
Released: 1928-11-27

In search of her fugitive brother, who wounded a man who was later murdered, Johanna Hearne...

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Broken Laws

as Bobby Allen - age 16
Released: 1924-11-09

Ignoring the advice of her husband, a mother indulges her son's every wish and demand all...

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Vanity's Price

as Teddy
Released: 1924-09-07

Successful actress Vanna Du Maurier ignores her friends' advice and overworks herself toward her...

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Little Miss Smiles

as Davie Aaronson
Released: 1922-01-15

The Jewish Aaronson family lives in simple neighborhoods in the ghetto of a big city. Esther...

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The Lure of Jade

as Allan Corey
Released: 1921-11-13

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