Clarence Wilson

Born: 1876-11-16

Clarence Hummel Wilson (November 17, 1876 – October 5, 1941) was an American character actor. He appeared in nearly 200 movies between 1920 and 1941, mostly in supporting roles as an old miser or grouch. He had notable supporting roles in films like The Front Page (1931), Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), and You Can't Take It With You (1938). Wilson also played in several Our Gang comedies, most notably as Mr. Crutch in Shrimps for a Day and school board chairman Alonzo Pratt in Come Back, Miss Pipps, his final film. Wilson died on October 5, 1941, approximately three weeks before the release of Come Back, Miss Pipps.


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The Son of Kong

as Hilda's Father (uncredited)
Released: 1933-12-22

Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.

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Son of Frankenstein

as Dr. Berger (uncredited)
Released: 1939-01-13

One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma...

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Released: 1923-09-06

In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and...

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A Star Is Born

as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Released: 1937-04-27

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies....

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Drums Along the Mohawk

as Paymaster (uncredited)
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 Count of Monte Cristo

as Fouquet
Released: 1934-09-06

After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering...

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You Can't Take It with You

as John Blakely
Released: 1938-09-01

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with...

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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

as Money Lender (uncredited)
Released: 1927-11-04

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to...

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Imitation of Life

as Mr. Bristol, Landlord (uncredited)
Released: 1934-11-23

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter....

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Mad Love

as Piano Creditor (Uncredited)
Released: 1935-07-12

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's...

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The Front Page

as Sheriff Hartman
Released: 1931-04-04

Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused...

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Ruggles of Red Gap

as Jake Henshaw
Released: 1935-03-08

In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a...

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20,000 Years in Sing Sing

as Finn's Lawyer Morris (uncredited)
Released: 1932-12-24

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward...

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Love Me Tonight

as Shirtmaker (uncredited)
Released: 1932-08-18

A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess...

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Lady Killer

as uncredited
Released: 1933-12-09

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes...

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The Penalty

as A Crook (uncredited)
Released: 1920-08-15

Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated...

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The Mad Miss Manton

as Norris' Attorney (uncredited)
Released: 1938-10-21

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears,...

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In Old Chicago

as Lawyer
Released: 1938-04-15

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

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Jewel Robbery

as Prefect of Police
Released: 1932-07-08

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of...

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The Emperor's Candlesticks

as Stationmaster (uncredited)
Released: 1937-07-02

Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

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The Purchase Price

as Justice of the Peace Elmer (uncredited)
Released: 1932-07-23

Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride...

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The Beast of the City

as Coroner (uncredited)
Released: 1932-02-13

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his own corrupt brother Ed...

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Operator 13

as Josiah Claybourne (uncredited)
Released: 1934-06-08

American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen,...

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Under Eighteen

as A.J. Dietrich, Attorney (uncredited)
Released: 1932-01-02

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during...

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It May Happen to You

as Van Buren Sheafor aka Pop (uncredited)
Released: 1937-06-05

From MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Mobsters convince a meat packing company employee to...

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Forsaking All Others

as Hotel Manager (Uncredited)
Released: 1934-12-23

A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

as Bidder at Eliza's Auction (uncredited)
Released: 1927-11-04

In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but...

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Let Us Live

as Lunchroom Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: 1939-03-29

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is...

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The Famous Ferguson Case

as County Attorney
Released: 1932-04-19

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by...

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Terror Aboard

as Ship's Doctor
Released: 1933-04-14

An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find...

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Paddy O'Day

as Lawyer Brewster
Released: 1936-01-17

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to...

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

as Jake Singer (as Clarence Hummel Wilson)
Released: 1938-03-18

Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show...

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Rasputin and the Empress

as Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: 1932-12-23

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the...

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We Who Are Young

as R. Glassford
Released: 1940-07-19

A man violates company policy by getting married.

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Strictly Unconventional

as George - Ted's Valet
Released: 1930-05-03

An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic...

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A Dog of Flanders

as Antoine - Official with Court Order (uncredited)
Released: 1935-03-22

Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose...

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Wicked

as Juryman
Released: 1931-10-04

Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber...

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Road Show

as Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: 1941-02-18

Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by...

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I Dream Too Much

as The Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: 1935-11-29

Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled...

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A Girl in Every Port

as Bartender in Marseille (uncredited)
Released: 1928-02-26

Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally...

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Melody Ranch

as Judge Henderson
Released: 1940-09-15

His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier...

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Haunted House

as Eph, Service Station Owner
Released: 1940-07-21

Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.

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East Side of Heaven

as Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Released: 1939-04-07

A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the...

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A Shriek in the Night

as Perkins
Released: 1933-07-22

Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind...

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Having Wonderful Time

as Mr. G.
Released: 1938-07-01

Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and...

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Paid

as Max Hardy (uncredited)
Released: 1930-12-30

Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she...

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Waterfront Lady

as Truant Officer
Released: 1935-10-04

When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business,...

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Bachelor Bait

as Clement Graftsman
Released: 1934-07-27

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

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Penguin Pool Murder

as Bertrand B. Hemingway
Released: 1932-12-09

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous...

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The Great Gambini

as Doctor
Released: 1937-06-24

A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects,...

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Some Like It Hot

as Mr. Ives
Released: 1939-05-19

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic...

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The Girl in 419

as Walter C. Horton
Released: 1933-05-26

A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much...

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Woman Trap

as Detective Captain (as Wilson Hummell)
Released: 1929-09-28

In Woman Trap, Hal Skelly is hard-bitten police sergeant Dan Malone, whose mission in life is to...

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Two Wise Maids

as Twitchell
Released: 1937-02-15

The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers...

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The Great Hotel Murder

as Girando
Released: 1935-02-27

Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a...

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Dangerous Paradise

as Zangiacomo
Released: 1930-02-13

Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma....

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The Winning Ticket

as Dolan - Pool Hall Proprietor
Released: 1935-02-08

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.

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Wedding Present

as Simmons
Released: 1936-10-09

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically...

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I'll Fix It

as John Stevens
Released: 1934-11-10

A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has...

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The Tin Man

as Mad Scientist
Released: 1935-03-30

Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius...

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I Like it That Way

as The Professor (as Clarence Hummel Wilson)
Released: 1934-04-01

A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.

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Flying High

as Lunch Counter Manager (uncredited)
Released: 1931-11-14

An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.

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Parnell

as Assistant Process Server
Released: 1937-06-04

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

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Now I'll Tell

as Joe Davis
Released: 1934-06-07

A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his...

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Winner Take All

as Ben Isaacs
Released: 1932-07-16

Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with...

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The Keyhole

as J. Weems - Acme Detective Agency Head (uncredited)
Released: 1933-03-25

A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.

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On the Wrong Trek

as Mr. Wilson (car owner)
Released: 1936-04-18

Charlie tells his co-workers about his event-filled vacation to California, including his run in...

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Sutter's Gold

as Streetcar Owner
Released: 1936-03-01

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

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Little Miss Nobody

as Herman Slade
Released: 1936-06-05

A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

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The Westland Case

as Charles Frazee
Released: 1937-10-30

A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows...

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Half a Sinner

as Collector
Released: 1934-06-01

A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.

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Ladies' Man

as Jeweler
Released: 1931-04-16

A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness...

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Man Of The People

as Skinny Wilson - Sulker
Released: 1937-01-27

An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.

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The Case of the Black Cat

as Mr. Shuster
Released: 1936-10-31

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter...

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The Sport Parade

as Toastmaster
Released: 1932-11-11

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.

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It's in the Air

as Amos Whipple
Released: 1935-10-10

Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin...

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The Big Parade of Comedy

as Actor in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1964-09-02

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

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The Wet Parade

as Charles Evan Hughes Campaigner (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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Storm at Daybreak

as Capt. Durosch (uncredited)
Released: 1933-06-14

Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the...

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Kentucky Kernels

as Peck - Lawyer
Released: 1934-11-02

The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky...

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Unknown Blonde

as Max Keibel
Released: 1934-04-23

An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases...

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Little Men

as W.L. Reynolds
Released: 1940-11-29

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a...

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Pick-up

as Sam Foster
Released: 1933-03-24

The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both...

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When a Man's a Man

as Garvey, Gambert's Lawyer
Released: 1935-02-15

A landslide has diverted water from the Baldwin ranch to Cambert's. With their cattle dying,...

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The Rainmakers

as Dennis P. Hogan
Released: 1935-10-25

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

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Little Old New York

as Willie Stout
Released: 1940-02-09

Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help...

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It's Showtime

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1976-03-31

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

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The First Born

as Kury Lar (as Wilson Hummel)
Released: 1921-01-30

Loey Tsing, the first love of Chan Wang, is sold into slavery by her father. Although Chan...

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The Phantom of Crestwood

as Apartment House Manager (uncredited)
Released: 1932-10-14

Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.

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A Successful Failure

as H.T. Flintly
Released: 1934-10-14

Ellery Cushing is full of catchy sayings and old-fashioned wisdom. But all that his family cares...

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Beyond the Law

as Talbot
Released: 1934-07-31

Beyond the Law is a 1934 American film of crime, directed by D. Ross Lederman, starring Tim McCoy.

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The All-American

as Football Game Spectator (uncredited)
Released: 1932-10-01

The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.

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Wake Up and Dream

as Hildebrand
Released: 1934-10-01

The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.

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The Land of Jazz

as uncredited
Released: 1920-12-01

Nina, engaged to a French captain, and Nancy, engaged to a doctor who runs an insane asylum on...

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Nurse to You!

as Mr. Wilson
Released: 1935-10-04

Cautious, frugal Charley is told by his insurance doctor that he has six months to live, and...

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The Sea Ghost

as Henry Sykes
Released: 1931-11-28

A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea...

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Young April

as Flower vendor (uncredited)
Released: 1926-10-11

Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.

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Bondage

as Dr. I. M. Harper (uncredited)
Released: 1933-04-22

Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of...

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Hats Off

as C.D. Pottingham
Released: 1936-12-05

The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and...

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Officer O'Brien

as Patello's Attorney
Released: 1930-02-15

Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello,...

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Kentucky Moonshine

as Attorney
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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Shrimps for a Day

as Mr. Crutch
Released: 1934-12-07

A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his...

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Educating Father

as Jess Boynton
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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Navy Wife

as Bridge Player
Released: 1935-09-17

A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.

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The Dangerous Maid

as Jewars (Jeffreys' secretary)
Released: 1923-11-19

Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising...

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Day of Reckoning

as Bail Bondsman
Released: 1933-10-26

In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught...

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Smoke Lightning

as Deputy Jake Tully
Released: 1933-01-01

After Smoke wins the Blake ranch in a poker game, Blake commits suicide and Smoke deeds the...

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Friendly Neighbors

as Silas Barton
Released: 1940-11-17

The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the...

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The Last Hour

as Quales
Released: 1923-01-01

Steve Cline returns to the U.S. after earning his fortune in South America. He reads in the...

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Night Life in Reno

as Adrian Garrett
Released: 1931-11-01

A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An...

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One Frightened Night

as Mr. Felix
Released: 1935-05-01

Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide...

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Gridiron Flash

as Hunsacker
Released: 1934-10-06

A college football team recruits a tough convict.

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Damaged Goods

as Dr. N.R. Shryer
Released: 1937-05-22

A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.

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Tillie and Gus

as Phineas Pratt
Released: 1933-10-13

Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas...

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Desperate Trails

as Malenkthy Culp
Released: 1939-09-30

A young man helps a marshal in his battle against outlaws.

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Honor First

as Tricot (the Apache) (as Wilson Hummel)
Released: 1922-08-27

Twin brothers are serving in the French army during the Great War. Jacques, a private, leads his...

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Sweepstakes

as Emory
Released: 1931-07-10

A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.

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Down To Earth

as Ed Eggers
Released: 1932-09-01

Husband and father Will Rogers tells his spoiled wife and children that they have to economize.

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Little Robinson Crusoe

as 'Singapore' Scroggs
Released: 1924-08-25

Left an orphan by the death of his father, Mickey Hogan sails for Australia to live with...

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Big News

as Coroner
Released: 1929-09-06

A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he...

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Her Majesty, Love

as Uncle Cornelius
Released: 1931-12-15

The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles...

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The Mysterious Rider

as Gentry, the Barber
Released: 1933-01-30

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

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King for a Night

as Mr. Whistler
Released: 1933-12-09

A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.

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Love in the Rough

as Brown
Released: 1930-09-05

When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he...

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Millionaire Playboy

as Mr. Jamison
Released: 1940-03-14

A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.

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Come Back, Miss Pipps

as Alonzo K. Pratt (uncredited)
Released: 1941-10-24

On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school...

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Love Begins at Twenty

as Jonathan Ramp
Released: 1936-08-22

A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.

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Young Ironsides

as J. Caldwall Evans
Released: 1932-09-02

Harry is hired by a rich family to stop their daughter from entering a beauty contest.

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Clown Princes

as Landlord
Released: 1939-04-14

The Our Gang kids put on a circus in the barn to raise money to help Porky's family pay the rent...

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Soft Boiled

as The Reformer
Released: 1923-08-26

John Steele, a rich uncle, threatens to disinherit his nephew, Tom Steele, unless the latter...

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Cinderella of the Hills

as Peter Poff
Released: 1921-10-23

Hoping to reconcile her divorced parents, Norris Gradley remains with her father, Giles, after...

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Ladies Must Dress

as Office Manager
Released: 1927-11-20

Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the...

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Little Sinner

as Property Owner
Released: 1935-10-25

Rather than go to church, Spanky decides to go fishing - with disastrous results.

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Public Ghost # 1

as E. H. Compton
Released: 1935-12-14

Charley is hired to haunt a house.

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Amateur Daddy

as William J. 'Bill' Hansen
Released: 1932-04-10

Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of...

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Flaming Guns

as J.P. Mulford
Released: 1932-12-22

A ranch manager falls in love with a banker's daughter, but after a quarrel with the girl's...

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While the Devil Laughs

as Joe Franklin
Released: 1921-02-13

Mary Franklin has a drunken father, an invalid mother, and a kid brother and sister to support....

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