Ben Taggart
Ben Taggart was an American stage and screen actor, his film career spanning the years 1915 to 1945.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Pompous Man (uncredited)After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his...
Movie page
The Pride of the Yankees
as Conductor (uncredited)The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Movie page
The Thin Man
as Police Captain (uncredited)A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get...
Movie page
Horse Feathers
as Police Officer (uncredited)Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help...
Movie page
San Francisco
as Cop (uncredited)A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days...
Movie page
Monkey Business
as Capt. Corcoran (uncredited)Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
Movie page
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
as General Lupi (uncredited)A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his...
Movie page
The Fighting Seabees
as Aircraft Carrier Captain (uncredited)Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the...
Movie page
The Spoilers
as Banker (uncredited)When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon...
Movie page
The Mayor of Hell
as Sheriff (uncredited)Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous...
Movie page
Topper Takes a Trip
as Policeman in Bank (uncredited)Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo...
Movie page
I Stole a Million
as Police Guard at Hospital (uncredited)A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Movie page
Souls at Sea
as Ship's Officer (uncredited)Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave...
Movie page
Before I Hang
as Warden ThompsonDr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and...
Movie page
The Green Hornet
as Phil BartlettA newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious...
Movie page
Under Eighteen
as Detective French (uncredited)Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during...
Movie page
Hold Your Man
as Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited)Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie...
Movie page
Mission to Moscow
as Guest at Davies' Speech (uncredited)Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns...
Movie page
Cowboy Canteen
as Train Conductor (uncredited)Song and comedy revue, featuring Western talents, along with a theatrical troupe taking their...
Movie page
Million Dollar Legs
as Ship's Captain (uncredited)A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics...
Movie page
Man-Made Monster
as Detective Sergeant ReganMad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
Movie page
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
as Postal InspectorJoe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get...
Movie page
Fast Workers
as Millie's Dance Partner (Uncredited)Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry,...
Movie page
Sergeant Madden
as DetectiveA dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Movie page
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
as Train ConductorA reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.
Movie page
King of Chinatown
as Henchman (uncredited)A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of...
Movie page
Wives Under Suspicion
as Fred - Police Lieutenant (uncredited)A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
Movie page
Sailor's Holiday
as uncreditedIn this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just...
Movie page
Escape from Crime
as Warden KirbyAn ex-con becomes a daredevil photojournalist.
Movie page
The Saint Strikes Back
as New York Detective Vance (Uncredited)Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a...
Movie page
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
as PolicemanThe zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
Movie page
Robin Hood of El Dorado
as RancherIn the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible...
Movie page
Something to Shout About
as Train ConductorA press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on...
Movie page
The Remarkable Andrew
as BailiffWhen Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city...
Movie page
The Man Who Returned to Life
as uncreditedAn accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an...
Movie page
Afraid to Talk
as Detective Burke (uncredited)Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them...
Movie page
Tell No Tales
as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could...
Movie page
Three Girls About Town
as DoormanFaith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next...
Movie page
Junior G-Men
as SevernA gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals,...
Movie page
No Time for Love
as uncreditedUpper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel...
Movie page
Gabriel Over the White House
as Cabinet Member (uncredited)A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a...
Movie page
The Notorious Sophie Lang
as Capt. ThomsonAfter an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful,...
Movie page
Among the Missing
as Officer FlannaganSeeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon...
Movie page
Don Winslow of the Navy
as John BlakeA movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island,...
Movie page
One Mysterious Night
as Traffic Cop (Uncredited)After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to...
Movie page
The House That Shadows Built
as Mr. Lee, Theatrical AgentThe House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount...
Movie page
The Ghost Comes Home
as Tim Leary (uncredited)Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea...
Movie page
The Miracle Kid
as J. Hamilton GibbsA young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.
Movie page
Babies for Sale
as Police Sgt. Mike BurkeA determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a...
Movie page
The Jury's Secret
as JenkinsA reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her...
Movie page
Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
as SevernThe Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior...
Movie page
S.O.S Tidal Wave
as uncreditedA news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his...
Movie page
Faithless
as Officer ClancySocialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill...
Movie page
Overland Mail
as Lamont [Chs. 7-8]Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages...
Movie page
Men Without Names
as Police LieutenantA G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
Movie page
A Tragedy at Midnight
as Cop (uncredited)The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to...
Movie page
Hard Guy
as Ben SherwoodInvestigators crack down on a gang of nightclub con artists that has been victimizing wealthy...
Movie page
Mystery Sea Raider
as CopJune McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother...
Movie page
The Wildcat of Tucson
as Judge John BarlowWhen his brother Dave is put in jail, Bill Hickok returns to help him. Dave has been charged...
Movie page
Alias Boston Blackie
as WardenIt is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick...
Movie page
Harmon of Michigan
as Mr. DavisA former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play...
Movie page
Hold That Kiss
as Apartment DoormanTwo young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely...
Movie page
The Women Men Marry
as Lieutenant Haggerty (uncredited)A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
Movie page
Shoot the Works
as DetectiveThe story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't...
Movie page
Daredevils of the Red Circle
as DixonEscaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to...
Movie page
So This Is Washington
as Senator Vickers (uncredited)Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think...
Movie page
The Chaser
as Policeman Reading Law to MotormanA sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop...
Movie page
The Overland Express
as Postal Agent AdamsIt's 1861 and Buck gets the business men of Sacramento to establish the Pony express. Hawley...
Movie page
From Headquarters
as Third-Degree Detective (uncredited)When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out...
Movie page
Central Park
as Policeman Mike (uncredited)Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get...
Movie page
Carnival
as Policeman"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and...
Movie page
Stolen Harmony
as Sergeant / Cop at Motel (uncredited)Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray...
Movie page
The Durango Kid
as Flynn (uncredited)The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced...
Movie page
The Public Pays
as Chief's Assistant (uncredited)In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is...
Movie page
The Perfect Set-Up
as Police Detective (uncredited)In this MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series short, a radio and television engineer falls into a life...
Movie page
Double Alibi
as PolicemanA man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Movie page
Silence
as Alderman ConnersA gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain...
Movie page
Michael O'Halloran
as Officer Reardon (uncredited)A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out...
Movie page
Youth on Parole
as Convict (uncredited)Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they...
Movie page
The Medico of Painted Springs
as John RichardsMedico of Painted Springs was the first of western hero Charles Starrett's appearances as...
Movie page
Rattling Romeo
as J. Banning ButtleCharley buys a wreck of an automobile that's been made to appear new by a disreputable used car...
Movie page
The Housekeeper's Daughter
as PolicemanA mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Movie page
Strangers in Love
as CrenshawFredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother...
Movie page
Vagabond Lady
as Hotel Detective (uncredited)Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department...
Movie page
Newly Rich
as Mr. Black (uncredited)Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing...
Movie page
I'll Say She Is
as Mr. Lee, Theatrical AgentIn the office of Mr. Lee, a talent agent, Zeppo bursts through the door, proclaiming to be a...
Movie page
She
as Leo VinceyA centuries-lasting relationship between Ayesha and her oft-reincarnated true love. She, H....
Movie page
A Criminal Is Born
as First Shooting VictimAn entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man,...
Movie page
The Big Guy
as Owner of Station (uncredited)A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the...
Movie page
Nobody's Children
as Mr. MillarA radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.
Movie page
Neighborhood House
as CopCharley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie...
Movie page
Amateur Daddy
as Deputy SheriffJim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of...
Movie page
The Fixer
as Mr. William FowlerWhen Bill Fowler decided to wed the wealthy widow, Isabel Dare, of Rye, N.Y., he gave a bachelor...
Movie page
Slightly Static
as Mr. Sidney, Manager of Radio Station (uncredited)Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
Movie page