Berton Churchill

Born: 1876-12-08


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Stagecoach

as Ellsworth H. Gatewood
Released: 1939-03-03

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of...

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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

as The Judge
Released: 1932-11-09

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of...

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The Rich Are Always with Us

as Judge Bradshaw
Released: 1932-05-19

A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend...

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If I Had a Million

as Warden (uncredited)
Released: 1932-11-18

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to...

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Two Seconds

as The Warden
Released: 1932-05-28

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being...

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Employees' Entrance

as Bradford (uncredited)
Released: 1933-02-11

Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He...

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The Cabin in the Cotton

as Lane Norwood
Released: 1932-09-26

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

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The Cowboy and the Lady

as Oliver Wendell Henderson
Released: 1938-11-17

Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is...

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In Old Chicago

as Senator Colby
Released: 1938-04-15

The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually...

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Dames

as Harold Ellsworthy Todd
Released: 1934-09-01

A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.

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Judge Priest

as Senator Horace Maydew
Released: 1934-09-15

Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the...

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The Mouthpiece

as Rocco Trial Judge (Uncredited)
Released: 1932-03-21

A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got...

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Babbitt

as Judge Virgil 'Verge' Thompson
Released: 1934-12-08

Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing...

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Turnabout

as Julian Marlowe
Released: 1940-05-17

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha...

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Frontier Marshal

as Hiram Melton
Released: 1934-01-19

Thinly veiled reworking of the Wyatt Earp story with the renamed Michael Wyatt rolling into...

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American Madness

as O'Brien (uncredited)
Released: 1932-08-15

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of...

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Daughters Courageous

as Judge Henry Hornsby
Released: 1939-06-23

Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam...

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Secrets of a Secretary

as Mr. Merritt
Released: 1931-09-05

Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles...

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Dimples

as Colonel Loring
Released: 1936-10-09

Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She...

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20 Mule Team

as 'Jackass' Brown
Released: 1940-05-03

It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining...

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You May Be Next!

as J.J. Held
Released: 1936-02-05

Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.

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The Little Giant

as Donald Hadley Cass
Released: 1933-05-20

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a...

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Taxi!

as Judge West (uncredited)
Released: 1931-12-29

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling...

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Madame Butterfly

as Mr. Sharpless
Released: 1932-12-30

Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his...

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Steamboat Round the Bend

as New Moses
Released: 1935-09-06

A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying...

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Menace

as Norman Bellamy
Released: 1934-11-22

A psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother's...

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Heroes for Sale

as Mr. Winston
Released: 1933-06-17

Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I...

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Angels Wash Their Faces

as Mayor James Dooley
Released: 1939-08-26

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister,...

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The Dark Hour

as Paul Bernard
Released: 1936-02-17

A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of...

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Bachelor Bait

as "Big" Barney Nolan
Released: 1934-07-27

After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.

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The Crooked Circle

as Col. Walters
Released: 1932-09-25

A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded...

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Air Eagles

as Windy J. Bailey
Released: 1931-12-20

Two former WWI aces from opposite sides, Bill Ramsey and Otto Shumann, in the best tradition of...

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Four Men and a Prayer

as Martin Cherrington
Released: 1938-04-29

The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.

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Sweethearts

as Sheridan
Released: 1938-12-30

The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from...

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A Fool's Advice

as Mayor Martin Sloan
Released: 1932-02-20

An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician...

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Afraid to Talk

as Mayor William 'Billy' Manning
Released: 1932-11-17

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them...

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Brother Rat and a Baby

as Mr. Harper
Released: 1940-01-13

Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as...

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Strictly Dynamite

as Mr. Rivers
Released: 1934-05-11

A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.

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Hard to Handle

as Col. H.D.X. Wells (uncredited)
Released: 1933-01-28

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

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Kid Millions

as Harrison Larrabee
Released: 1934-11-10

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but...

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The Spanish Cape Mystery

as Judge Macklin
Released: 1935-10-09

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

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Only Yesterday

as Goodheart (Uncredited)
Released: 1933-11-01

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide....

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Three of a Kind

as 'Con' Cornelius
Released: 1936-05-19

A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A...

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Cross-Country Romance

as Colonel Conway
Released: 1940-07-12

A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.

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The Dark Horse

as William A. Underwood
Released: 1932-06-16

The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark...

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On Your Toes

as Donald Henderson
Released: 1939-10-14

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

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The Avenger

as Forster
Released: 1933-08-10

A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had...

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Saturday's Children

as Mr. 'B.N.' Norman, Office Manager
Released: 1940-05-04

An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.

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Parnell

as The O'Gorman Mahon
Released: 1937-06-04

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but...

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Parole!

as Rex Gavin
Released: 1936-06-14

Louis Friedlander-directed film

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The Big Stampede

as Governor Lew Wallace
Released: 1932-09-29

Deputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping...

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College Coach

as Otis
Released: 1933-11-04

Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students....

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Friends of Mr. Sweeney

as Franklyn P. Brumbaugh
Released: 1934-07-28

Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone...

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Public Deb No. 1

as Judge
Released: 1940-09-13

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

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Half a Sinner

as Deacon Caswell
Released: 1934-06-01

A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.

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The Way of All Flesh

as Reginald L. Morten
Released: 1940-07-05

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father...

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Golden Harvest

as Eben Martin
Released: 1933-09-21

A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest....

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Public Wedding

as H. Theodore "Pop" Lane III
Released: 1937-07-09

The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a...

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This Reckless Age

as Banker (uncredited)
Released: 1932-01-09

Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their...

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He Couldn't Say No

as Senator Mabby
Released: 1938-03-19

A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for...

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Murder in the Private Car

as Luke Carson
Released: 1934-06-29

Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a...

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Helldorado

as 'Clarion' Editor
Released: 1935-01-05

Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her...

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Nothing But the Truth

as E.M. Burke
Released: 1929-04-20

A young man bets $10,000 that for 24 hour he can tell nothing but the truth.

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The Wet Parade

as Roger's Uncle Dick (uncredited)
Released: 1932-03-26

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the...

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Doctor Bull

as Herbert Banning
Released: 1933-09-22

In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers...

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I Love That Man

as Mordant - Casket Buyer
Released: 1933-07-07

Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way...

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Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)
Released: 1984-01-01

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they...

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Sing Sing Nights

as Governor Duane
Released: 1934-12-14

A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different...

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Down in 'Arkansaw'

as Judge
Released: 1938-10-07

A government representative travels to the backwoods of Arkansas to convince the people there of...

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Private Jones

as Roger Winthrop
Released: 1933-03-25

After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by...

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Dizzy Dames

as Dad Hackett
Released: 1935-05-29

A musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house.

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Page Miss Glory

as Mr. Yates
Released: 1935-09-07

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant...

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The Rainmakers

as Simon Parker
Released: 1935-10-25

Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry...

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So This Is Africa

as President
Released: 1933-04-21

Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.

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From Hell to Heaven

as Toledo Jones
Released: 1933-02-24

The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a...

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Quick Money

as Bluford H. Smythe
Released: 1937-12-10

Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of...

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Under Your Spell

as Judge
Released: 1936-11-06

A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to...

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Elmer, the Great

as Colonel Moffitt
Released: 1933-04-29

Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr....

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Wide Open Faces

as L.D. Crawford
Released: 1938-04-18

A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.

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The Singing Marine

as J. Montgomery Madison
Released: 1937-07-03

Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and...

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I Live for Love

as Fabian
Released: 1935-09-28

A failed actor finds success as a radio singer.

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Redhead

as Mr. Brown
Released: 1934-10-31

A girl marries a playboy from a rich family, expecting a life of comfort and luxury. However,...

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Hero for a Day

as E.A. Dow
Released: 1939-10-06

When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him...

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The Big Brain

as Col. Higginbotham
Released: 1933-08-04

A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion....

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Washington Merry-Go-Round

as Speaker of the House
Released: 1932-10-15

Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He...

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$10 Raise

as Mr. Bates
Released: 1935-05-04

A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...

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The County Chairman

as Elias Rigby
Released: 1935-01-11

Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in...

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Her First Mate

as Davis
Released: 1933-08-03

A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.

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Wild and Woolly

as Edward Ralston
Released: 1937-07-19

Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and...

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Bunker Bean

as Professor Ed Balthazer
Released: 1936-06-26

A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.

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I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now

as Senator Henry Lowell
Released: 1940-10-19

In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their...

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Okay, America!

as Jacob Baron
Released: 1932-09-08

A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.

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Coronado

as Walter Marvin
Released: 1935-11-27

Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social...

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Black Gold

as J.C. Anderson
Released: 1936-01-19

Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when...

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Kentucky Moonshine

as J.B.
Released: 1938-05-20

The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.

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Colleen

as Logan
Released: 1936-03-21

Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees

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Scandal for Sale

as Bunnyweather
Released: 1932-04-01

A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.

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Fast Companions

as Committee Chairman
Released: 1932-06-22

A crooked jockey tries to reform.

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Racing Lady

as Judge
Released: 1937-01-12

A shrewd millionaire who owns races horses for publicity for his automobile business, claims...

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Tarnished Lady

as Stock Speculator
Released: 1931-05-01

Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity...

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My Sin

as Mr. Osgood
Released: 1931-09-26

A prostitute living in Panama shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. The lawyer who gets...

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Danger on the Air

as Caesar Kluck
Released: 1938-06-30

Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio...

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Laughter in Hell

as Mike Slaney
Released: 1933-01-12

In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.

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Cheaters at Play

as uncredited
Released: 1932-01-27

Modest picture centering on a blunderous jewel heist aboard an ocean liner.

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Let’s Be Ritzy

as R.M. Pembrook
Released: 1934-05-01

Complications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not.

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Vagabond Lady

as R.D. Spear
Released: 1935-05-03

Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department...

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Hi, Nellie!

as Graham
Released: 1934-01-20

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield...

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Should Husbands Work?

as Barnes
Released: 1939-07-26

Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins...

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The Mysterious Rider

as Mark King
Released: 1933-01-30

The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles...

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Take the Stand

as Mr. Jerome Burbank
Released: 1934-08-07

A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective...

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Master of Men

as Mr. Walling
Released: 1933-11-28

One of ten films that Fay Wray made in 1993 (including King Kong), Master of Men casts her as...

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A Night at the Ritz

as Mr. Vincent
Released: 1935-03-23

A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.

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The Billion Dollar Scandal

as The Warden
Released: 1933-01-06

An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes...

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Sing and Be Happy

as John Mason
Released: 1937-06-25

Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.

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Week Ends Only

as A.S. Carr
Released: 1932-06-19

A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess....

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Six Cylinder Love

as George Stapleton
Released: 1923-11-04

After buying a car, Richard Burton finds that his wife and daughter have become unreasonably...

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The Washington Masquerade

as Senator Bitler (as Burton Churchill)
Released: 1932-07-09

An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After...

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False Faces

as Dr. J.B. Parker
Released: 1932-10-12

The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24...

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Ladies in Distress

as Fred Morgan
Released: 1938-06-13

Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her...

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So This Is London

as Hiram Draper
Released: 1939-03-01

American (Churchill) in London dislikes England until his daughter (Lehmann) falls for the son...

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