Cliff Clark

Born: 1889-06-09

Cliff Clark (June 10, 1889 – February 8, 1953) was an American actor. He entered the film business in 1937 after a substantial stage career and appeared in over 200 Hollywood films. In the last years of his life, he also played in a number of television productions. Clark mostly played minor supporting roles. A specialty of his were policemen, inspectors and sheriffs. He appeared in a recurring role as Inspector Donovan in the Falcon film series at RKO Pictures during the 1940s.


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High Noon

as Ed Weaver (uncredited)
Released: 1952-06-09

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail...

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The Grapes of Wrath

as City Man
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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Fort Apache

as Stage Driver (uncredited)
Released: 1948-06-14

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military...

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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

as Jones (uncredited)
Released: 1948-03-25

An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the...

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The Gunfighter

as Jerry Marlowe (uncredited)
Released: 1950-06-23

The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

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The Mummy's Tomb

as Sheriff C.L. Clark
Released: 1942-10-23

A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill...

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It's a Wonderful World

as Captain Haggerty
Released: 1939-05-19

Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he...

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Western Union

as Sheriff
Released: 1941-02-21

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he...

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Hollow Triumph

as Motorist (uncredited)
Released: 1948-08-18

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate...

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Young Mr. Lincoln

as Sheriff Gil Billings (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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Stranger on the Third Floor

as Martin
Released: 1940-08-16

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence"...

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The Men

as Dr. Kameran
Released: 1950-08-25

Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of...

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The Second Woman

as Police Sergeant
Released: 1950-07-07

In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California...

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The Sea Wolf

as uncredited
Released: 1941-03-21

Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.

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Invisible Stripes

as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: 1939-12-30

A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

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Raw Deal

as Gates
Released: 1948-05-21

Joe Sullivan (O'Keefe) has taken the rap for Rick (Burr), who double-crosses him with a flawed...

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Knute Rockne All American

as Danny - Post Office Paymaster (uncredited)
Released: 1940-10-05

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

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The Stratton Story

as Josh Higgins
Released: 1949-05-12

Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes...

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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

as Ryan
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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Destroyer

as Commandant
Released: 1943-08-19

Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is...

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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

as Haupt
Released: 1940-02-23

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure...

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The Secret Fury

as Police Captain Arnold (uncredited)
Released: 1950-02-21

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already...

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Buck Privates Come Home

as Quentin (INS) (uncredited)
Released: 1947-04-04

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French...

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The Falcon and the Co-Eds

as Inspector Timothy Donovan
Released: 1943-11-10

The Falcon is called to a young woman's school to investigate a murder. When he arrives, another...

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Castle on the Hudson

as Prison Guard Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: 1940-02-17

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

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They Made Me a Criminal

as Manager
Released: 1939-01-21

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

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Silver City

as uncredited
Released: 1951-12-01

Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the...

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Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

as Lieutenant Wilson
Released: 1940-05-02

On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four...

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The Falcon's Brother

as Timothy Donovan
Released: 1942-10-02

A gentlemanly detective known as The Falcon calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from...

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Shockproof

as Mac, Police Lieutenant (Uncredited)
Released: 1949-01-25

Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful...

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The Sound of Fury

as Sheriff Lem Demig
Released: 1950-12-12

A family man – desperate for a job – latches onto a friend who encourages him into being a criminal.

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Manpower

as Cully
Released: 1941-08-09

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident...

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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

as Garage Owner
Released: 1939-12-01

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get...

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Babes on Broadway

as Inspector Moriarity
Released: 1941-12-31

Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them...

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A Fugitive from Justice

as Police Captain (uncredited)
Released: 1940-06-15

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on...

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Miracles for Sale

as Inspector Marty Gavigan
Released: 1939-08-10

A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.

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The Wagons Roll at Night

as Doc
Released: 1941-04-25

An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and...

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The Missing Juror

as Inspector Davis (Uncredited)
Released: 1944-11-16

A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.

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Albuquerque

as Armin's Clerk (uncredited)
Released: 1948-02-20

Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted...

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Street of Chance

as Ryan, (Policeman)
Released: 1942-10-03

In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling...

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Calling Dr. Kildare

as Detective Flaherty (uncredited)
Released: 1939-04-28

Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare...

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Honky Tonk

as Dr. Otis
Released: 1941-10-01

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but...

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Barbary Coast Gent

as Jack Coda
Released: 1944-09-01

Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s...

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A Dispatch from Reuters

as Reporter (uncredited)
Released: 1940-10-19

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news...

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USS VD: Ship of Shame

as Margaret's Doctor (uncredited)
Released: 1942-01-02

This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the...

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Bride by Mistake

as Navy Captain
Released: 1944-07-26

The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic...

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The Falcon Strikes Back

as Inspector Timothy Donovan
Released: 1943-04-01

The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape...

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I, Jane Doe

as City Editor
Released: 1948-05-25

While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl...

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The Thirteenth Hour

as Police Captain Linfield
Released: 1947-02-06

In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of...

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Wagon Train

as Matt Gardner
Released: 1940-10-04

In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's...

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The Fuller Brush Girl

as Ship Captain (uncredited)
Released: 1950-09-15

A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.

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In the Meantime, Darling

as Corkery
Released: 1944-09-22

A young bride who comes from a rich family has a hard time adjusting to life in a boarding house...

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Bury Me Dead

as Archer, Detective
Released: 1947-10-18

A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.

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Henry Goes Arizona

as Theatrical Agent V. B. Carmady (uncredited)
Released: 1939-12-08

A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.

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Warpath

as Bartender
Released: 1951-11-22

John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He...

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Miss Grant Takes Richmond

as Construction Materials Contractor (uncredited)
Released: 1949-10-20

A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up...

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Slightly Honorable

as Captain Graves
Released: 1939-12-22

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

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The Corpse Came C.O.D.

as City Editor Emmett Willard
Released: 1947-06-02

Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and...

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Dust Be My Destiny

as First Detective (uncredited)
Released: 1939-09-16

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail,...

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Highways by Night

as Police Captain James
Released: 1942-10-02

A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and...

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False Paradise

as Gerald Waite
Released: 1948-09-10

A banker is trying to cheat people out of their silver-rich land. Hoppy learns that the banker...

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The Falcon in Danger

as Insp. Timothy Donovan
Released: 1943-07-17

Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is...

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Toughest Man in Arizona

as uncredited
Released: 1952-10-10

Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the...

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Post Office Investigator

as Inspector Delany
Released: 1949-09-01

A mailman leads PO-men to a pistol-packing stamp thief and her gang.

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Kid Glove Killer

as Captain Lynch
Released: 1942-04-17

Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor...

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Slightly Dangerous

as Detective (uncredited)
Released: 1943-04-01

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents...

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Flowing Gold

as Oil Well Shares Seller (uncredited)
Released: 1940-08-24

In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes...

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Honolulu

as First Detective
Released: 1939-02-03

Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner...

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Florian

as Detective Joe
Released: 1940-06-05

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought...

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Fast and Furious

as Sam Travers
Released: 1939-10-06

Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York,...

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Dangerously They Live

as Sheriff John Dill
Released: 1941-12-24

A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.

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Maisie Goes to Reno

as Police Captain (Uncredited)
Released: 1944-08-15

A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.

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Home of the Brave

as Colonel Baker
Released: 1949-05-12

A sensitive, educated black man's World War II-time problems. This is essentially the duplicate...

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Brigham Young

as Dissenter
Released: 1940-09-27

Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to...

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A Yank on the Burma Road

as Police Lieutenant
Released: 1942-01-29

A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II...

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Something to Shout About

as Harrigan
Released: 1943-02-25

A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on...

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Deep Waters

as uncredited
Released: 1948-07-22

A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.

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It Had to Be You

as Fire Chief (uncredited)
Released: 1947-12-07

A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.

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Fingers at the Window

as Police Lieutenant Allison
Released: 1942-04-22

In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders,...

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Judge Hardy and Son

as Dan O'Shea (uncredited)
Released: 1939-12-22

Judge Hardy guides Andy through problems with girls, money and an essay contest.

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Brother Rat and a Baby

as Police Captain
Released: 1940-01-13

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

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Nine Lives Are Not Enough

as Lieutenant Buckley
Released: 1941-09-20

A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

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The Falcon Out West

as Inspector Timothy Donovan
Released: 1944-03-17

When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he...

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Desert of Lost Men

as Carl Landers
Released: 1951-11-19

Rocky Lane arrives at the town of Bear Creek to help insure the safe arrival of forty thousand...

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Chicken Wagon Family

as Horse Auctioneer
Released: 1939-08-10

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

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Within the Law

as McGuire
Released: 1939-03-17

A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.

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Women Without Names

as Pete
Released: 1940-03-14

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused...

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Gangs of Chicago

as uncredited
Released: 1940-05-18

A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends...

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The Cariboo Trail

as uncredited
Released: 1950-08-01

A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country.

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Mr. Moto's Gamble

as Tom McGuire
Released: 1938-04-07

Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into...

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Homicide

as Captain Mooney
Released: 1949-04-02

Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the...

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The Patient in Room 18

as Inspector Foley
Released: 1938-01-08

Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of...

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Who Is Hope Schuyler?

as Lieutenant Palmer
Released: 1942-04-17

A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial,...

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Strange Alibi

as Capt. Reddick
Released: 1941-04-19

An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true...

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Cavalry Scout

as Col. Deering
Released: 1951-05-13

Kirby Frye, a former Confederate officer but now a Union Cavalry scout, is sent into Montana...

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Trouble Makers

as Police Captain Madison
Released: 1948-12-10

Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a...

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Joe Palooka in Triple Cross

as Sheriff Malin
Released: 1951-09-16

Joe Palooka and two friends are taking hostage by three criminals.

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Ladies' Day

as Dan Hannigan, Sox Manager
Released: 1943-04-09

A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a...

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Saddle Legion

as Fred Warren
Released: 1951-04-07

A cattle inspector runs a rustling ring on the side.

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You're Not So Tough

as Sheriff Griswold
Released: 1940-07-26

The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny...

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Law of the Tropics

as Bartender
Released: 1941-10-04

Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the...

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Jiggs and Maggie in Court

as Judge Wilson
Released: 1948-12-12

Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the...

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Maryland

as Sheriff
Released: 1940-07-19

A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do...

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Powder River Rustlers

as Lucius Statton
Released: 1949-11-25

Powder River Rustlers is a western film directed by Philip Ford in 1949. The railroad is coming...

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Cripple Creek

as uncredited
Released: 1952-06-30

It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the...

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Wild Bill Hickok Rides

as Cliff Clark
Released: 1942-01-31

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

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Wild Bill Hickok Rides

as Vic Kersey
Released: 1942-01-31

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

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Adventures of Gallant Bess

as Sheriff
Released: 1948-10-01

Ted Daniels, a ranch hand working for a rodeo, captures a magnificent wild horse that he tames...

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Joe Smith, American

as Police Captain (uncredited)
Released: 1942-02-01

Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after...

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Blue, White, and Perfect

as Inspector Peterson
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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Blondie's Hero

as Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: 1950-03-09

Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts...

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Mokey

as Mr. Graham
Released: 1942-04-01

A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.

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Kentucky

as Melish
Released: 1938-12-30

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky...

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Secret Enemies

as Detective Capt. Jarrett
Released: 1942-09-17

FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate...

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Desperadoes of the West

as Colonel Arnold
Released: 1950-08-02

A group of ranchers, led by Colonel Arnold and Ward Gordon, are drilling an oil well but getting...

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Inside Story

as Collins
Released: 1939-03-10

A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an...

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The Daredevil Drivers

as Mr. McAullife
Released: 1938-02-12

To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for...

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Cross-Country Romance

as G.G. Burke
Released: 1940-07-12

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

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Missing Evidence

as Allen Jennings
Released: 1939-12-15

G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating...

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Madame Spy

as Inspector Varden
Released: 1942-12-11

Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the...

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Borrowed Trouble

as Dink Davis
Released: 1948-07-23

Finishing a trail drive, Hoppy and the boys head to town and immediately get caught up in the...

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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite

as Mike Kelly
Released: 1939-08-12

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.

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Double Alibi

as Police Inspector Early
Released: 1940-03-01

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

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While New York Sleeps

as Insp. Cliff Collins
Released: 1938-12-16

Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).

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Time Out for Murder

as Det. Capt. Collins
Released: 1938-09-25

A bank runner is accused of killing a woman for whom he deposited a large amount. Reporter and...

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Keep 'Em Slugging

as Macklin
Released: 1943-03-01

A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men...

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Washington Melodrama

as Simpson
Released: 1941-04-17

An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town...

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Golden Hoofs

as Booth
Released: 1941-02-14

A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is...

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He Couldn't Say No

as Auctioneer
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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Cocoanut Grove

as Auctioneer
Released: 1938-05-20

Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.

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Henry Aldrich, Editor

as Fire Chief
Released: 1942-09-01

Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of...

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Mountain Music

as Pretty Panther Medicine Show Proprietor
Released: 1937-06-18

Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She...

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Butch Minds the Baby

as Police Captain (uncredited)
Released: 1942-03-20

Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and...

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Overland Telegraph

as Terence Muldoon
Released: 1951-12-15

Not to be confused with the 1929 film The Overland Telegraph, this Western from director Lesley...

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Jail House Blues

as Warden Boswell
Released: 1942-02-01

A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his...

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Philo Vance's Gamble

as Inspector Walsh
Released: 1947-04-12

Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery...

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Taxi, Mister

as Police Chief
Released: 1943-04-16

The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.

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Black Diamonds

as Archie Connor
Released: 1940-07-16

A reporter on a visit to his hometown hears of dangerous conditions at the local coal mine, and...

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Vigilante Hideout

as Howard Sanders
Released: 1950-08-06

Cattle detective, Rocky Lane, arrives in town to investigate cattle disappearances only to...

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Honeymoon Deferred

as Police Insp. Mathews
Released: 1940-02-16

Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case...

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Flaming Fury

as Fire Engineer Robby Rollins
Released: 1949-07-28

A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.

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Flat Feat

as Chief of Police
Released: 1948-06-24

Sterling, a rookie cop, finds it hard to live up to the reputation his father, who was also a...

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