Charles Tannen

Born: 1915-10-22


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The Fly

as Doctor (uncredited)
Released: 1958-07-16

Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene Delambre,...

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

as Ed, Malone's Contact (uncredited)
Released: 1953-07-14

Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the...

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Where the Sidewalk Ends

as Police Radio Dispatcher #79 (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1950-07-07

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

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The Grapes of Wrath

as Joe
Released: 1940-03-15

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm...

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Sitting Pretty

as Newsreel Director (uncredited)
Released: 1948-03-10

Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter....

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Jesse James

as Charles Ford
Released: 1939-01-14

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank...

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Drums Along the Mohawk

as Dr. Robert Johnson
Released: 1939-11-10

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in...

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The Return of Frank James

as Charlie Ford
Released: 1940-08-10

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

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A Letter to Three Wives

as uncredited
Released: 1949-01-20

A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is...

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

as CPO Mack Gleason
Released: 1961-07-12

The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.

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The Harder They Fall

as Reporter (uncredited)
Released: 1956-05-09

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his...

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Cry of the City

as Intern
Released: 1948-09-29

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward,...

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Shock

as Hotel Clerk
Released: 1946-02-01

In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder,...

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Leave Her to Heaven

as Man (uncredited)
Released: 1945-12-25

A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous...

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A Blueprint for Murder

as Detective (Uncredited)
Released: 1953-07-24

Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also...

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Crash Dive

as Seaman Hammond
Released: 1943-04-22

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German...

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Young People

as Assistant Manager
Released: 1940-08-30

Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They...

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The Dark Corner

as Second Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: 1946-04-09

Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe...

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Ma Barker's Killer Brood

as Sheriff #1
Released: 1960-02-03

Ma Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings,...

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Young Mr. Lincoln

as Ninian Edwards (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-09

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a...

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The Monster That Challenged the World

as Seaman Wyatt (Radioman)
Released: 1957-06-14

Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.

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The Street with No Name

as Cab Driver (Uncredited)
Released: 1948-07-14

After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested,...

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Dangerous Crossing

as Wine Steward (uncredited)
Released: 1953-07-22

A honeymoon aboard an ocean liner is cut short when the young bride finds herself suddenly...

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Submarine Patrol

as Undetermined Part (script name, Kelly)
Released: 1938-11-25

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with...

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You're in the Navy Now

as Houlihan
Released: 1951-02-23

When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an...

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Bloodhounds of Broadway

as Bookie on Phone (uncredited)
Released: 1952-11-14

A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert...

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Sing, Baby, Sing

as Reporter / Radio Station Messenger
Released: 1936-08-21

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is...

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Gateway

as Reporter
Released: 1938-08-05

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she...

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The Proud Ones

as 2nd Foreman (uncredited)
Released: 1956-05-15

Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town....

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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

as Plane Passenger
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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December 7th

as Mike - Landing Field Officer (uncredited)
Released: 1943-03-01

"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the...

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Doll Face

as Flo's Aide
Released: 1945-12-31

Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show...

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Lillian Russell

as Reporter
Released: 1940-05-24

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

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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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Dead Men Tell

as Sailor with Girl
Released: 1941-03-28

When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie...

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You're My Everything

as Director (uncredited)
Released: 1949-07-22

In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes...

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Thunder Birds

as American Flyer / Opening Off-Screen Narrator (voice)
Released: 1942-10-28

On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in...

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Vice Squad

as Dutch (uncredited)
Released: 1953-07-31

A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank...

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Moontide

as Radio Broadcaster (Voice)
Released: 1942-05-29

After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.

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Sleepers West

as Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Released: 1941-03-14

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder...

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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

as Court Clerk
Released: 1939-04-04

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and...

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Blue, White, and Perfect

as Ship's Ticket Agent
Released: 1942-01-06

In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and...

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The Spider

as Detective Tonti
Released: 1945-12-01

An ex-cop is suspected of murder after he is found with a dead woman. The private detective is...

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Without Warning!

as Wolf
Released: 1952-05-08

Los Angeles is paralysed with terror when a lovesick murderer takes to the streets with a pair...

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I'll Give a Million

as Radio Operator (uncredited)
Released: 1938-07-27

After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out...

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When Willie Comes Marching Home

as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1950-02-17

When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only...

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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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Night Without Sleep

as Steve Brooks (Uncredited)
Released: 1952-09-26

Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he...

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The Perfect Snob

as Chauffer (uncredited)
Released: 1941-12-19

When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging...

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Love Before Breakfast

as Clerk (uncredited)
Released: 1936-03-09

Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots...

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Walking Down Broadway

as Hotel Clerk
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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Kentucky Moonshine

as Engineer (uncredited)
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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Footlight Serenade

as Charlie
Released: 1942-08-01

Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show....

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Johnny Apollo

as Reporter (uncredited)
Released: 1940-04-19

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then...

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Behind Green Lights

as Ames, Reporter
Released: 1946-02-15

An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and...

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Lucky Cisco Kid

as Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: 1940-06-28

Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be...

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Big Town Girl

as Radio Station Attendant
Released: 1937-12-03

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

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Don't Be a Sucker!

as uncredited
Released: 1943-06-04

Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is...

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Swanee River

as Morrison Foster
Released: 1939-12-29

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

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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

as Reporter
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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The Lady Escapes

as Usher (uncredited)
Released: 1937-07-22

A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a...

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Quiet Please, Murder

as Hollis
Released: 1943-03-19

A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to...

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Sins of Man

as Steamship Clerk
Released: 1936-06-19

Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche)...

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Manila Calling

as Fillmore
Released: 1942-10-16

During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the...

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Green Grass of Wyoming

as Dr. Kimgrough - Veterinarian
Released: 1948-06-03

The romance of a rancher's niece and a rival rancher's son parallels that of a stallion and a mare.

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Sundown Jim

as Dan Barr
Released: 1942-03-27

US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a...

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Fair Warning

as Bellhop
Released: 1937-03-05

In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a...

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Murder Over New York

as Airport Announcer Voice
Released: 1940-12-13

When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in...

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Red Skies of Montana

as Charlie (uncredited)
Released: 1952-01-23

When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the...

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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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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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Barricade

as Opening Narrator (voice)
Released: 1939-12-08

In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.

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Educating Father

as Jim Courtney
Released: 1936-05-23

Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than...

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Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock

as Sheriff
Released: 1962-10-01

Five passengers in a stagecoach are abandoned by their driver in the desert. Trying to survive,...

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Love and Hisses

as Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: 1937-12-21

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist...

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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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Dancing in the Dark

as Jack
Released: 1949-12-02

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit...

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Cadet Girl

as Jimmy, a Cadet
Released: 1941-11-28

A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.

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Land and Live in the Jungle

as Charley Tannen
Released: 1944-03-14

In this World War II military training film, a B-25 crew bails out over the jungle, and the...

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Remember the Day

as Slicker
Released: 1941-12-25

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

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Photographic Intelligence for Bombardment Aviation

as FIU captain
Released: 1943-01-25

When naval Lieutenant Phil Bowen encounters his friend, Air Forces Captain Grover, he inquires...

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Johnny Comes Flying Home

as Harry
Released: 1946-04-05

Three World War II fliers face financial obstacles threatening to ground their fledgling...

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Careful, Soft Shoulders

as Joe
Released: 1942-09-18

In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has...

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Petticoat Junction

as Mr. Haley
First aired: 1963-09-24

The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters...

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Ben
First aired: 1956-10-05

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...

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Father Knows Best

as Hal Berdahl
First aired: 1954-10-03

Family man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three...

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Maverick

as Jeff
First aired: 1957-09-22

Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins....

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Black Saddle

as Andy Benson
First aired: 1959-01-10

Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44...

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