Creighton Hale
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Creighton Hale (24 May 1888 — 9 August 1965) was an Irish-American theatre, film, and television actor whose career extended more than a half-century, from the early 1900s to the end of the 1950s. Born Patrick Fitzgerald in County Cork, Ireland, he was educated in Dublin and London, and later attended Ardingly College in Sussex. He immigrated to America in his early twenties, traveling with a troupe of actors. While starring in Charles Frohman's Broadway production of Indian Summer, Hale was spotted by a representative of the Pathe Film Company. He eventually became known professionally as Creighton Hale, although the derivation of those names remains unknown. His first movie was The Exploits of Elaine in 1914. He starred in hit films such as Way Down East, Orphans of the Storm, and The Cat and the Canary. When talkies came about, his career declined. He made several appearances in Hal Roach's Our Gang series (School's Out, Big Ears, Free Wheeling), and also played unbilled bits in major talking films such as Larceny, Inc., The Maltese Falcon, and Casablanca. He died in the Los Angeles County city of South Pasadena and was buried at Duncans Mills Cemetery in Northern California.
Casablanca
as Customer (uncredited)In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover,...
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The Maltese Falcon
as Stenographer (uncredited)A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a...
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Sunset Boulevard
as Creighton Hale (uncredited)A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into...
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Way Down East
as Professor SterlingA naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild...
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The Thin Man
as Reporter (uncredited)A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get...
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The Roaring Twenties
as Customer (uncredited)After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George...
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Sergeant York
as Associated Press Man (uncredited)Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is...
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The Fountainhead
as Court Clerk (uncredited)An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism...
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Santa Fe Trail
as Telegraph Operator (uncredited)As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B....
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The Enforcer
as uncreditedAfter years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a...
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Gentleman Jim
as Championship Fight Spectator (uncredited)As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and...
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A Fool There Was
as Young Man at Wild Party (uncredited)John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an...
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Johnny Belinda
as Bailiff (uncredited)A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Radio Man (uncredited)An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a...
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as Draftsman (uncredited)FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Cry Wolf
as Dr. Reynolds (uncredited)A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.
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Three Strangers
as Man in PubOn the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy...
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All This, and Heaven Too
as Ship's Officer (uncredited)When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the...
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The Return of Doctor X
as Hotel ManagerWhen news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova...
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Bullet Scars
as Judd, the druggistDr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe...
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Life with Father
as Mr. Wickersham the Father of Twin Boys (uncredited)A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who...
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Larceny, Inc.
as Mr. CarmichaelThree ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they...
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Brother Orchid
as Reporter #3 (uncredited)When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill...
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The Two Mrs. Carrolls
as Second Tout (uncredited)Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance...
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One Million B.C.
as Shell PersonOne Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by...
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Orphans of the Storm
as PicardFrance, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as...
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Action in the North Atlantic
as Sparks (uncredited)Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are...
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Mr. Skeffington
as Casey (uncredited)A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her...
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Gambling Lady
as Funeral Attendee (uncredited)A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike...
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Les Miserables
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime...
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The Story of Mankind
as Heavenly JudgeThe devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
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Becky Sharp
as British Officer (uncredited)The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was...
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Westbound
as Irritated Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital...
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Dust Be My Destiny
as Nick's Second Customer (uncredited)Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail,...
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On Moonlight Bay
as uncreditedThe Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield...
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Indianapolis Speedway
as Racetrack OfficialA champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession...
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The Verdict
as ReporterAfter an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard...
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Humoresque
as Professor (uncredited)A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy,...
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Humoresque
as Concert Spectator (uncredited)A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy,...
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as Card Player (uncredited)Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe...
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Beyond the Forest
as Townsman with GlassesRosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city...
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Backfire
as uncreditedWhen he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army...
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Uncertain Glory
as uncreditedIn occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid...
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Goodbye, My Fancy
as Griswolds' Butler (Uncredited)Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a...
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Night Unto Night
as uncreditedA bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In...
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Steel Against the Sky
as Jim (uncredited)Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
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Serenade
as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps...
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Knute Rockne All American
as Callahan's Secretary (uncredited)The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
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Holiday
as Pete HedgesA young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy...
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Snow White
as Prince FlorimonSnow White, a beautiful girl, is despised by a wicked queen who tries to destroy her. With the...
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Saturday's Children
as Stamp Collecting Mailman (uncredited)An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
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Men Without Names
as GroomA G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
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Fighter Squadron
as Cockney (uncredited)During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's...
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
as ReporterNancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the...
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The Cat and the Canary
as Paul JonesRich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he...
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Hollywood Wonderland
as Man Taking Tour (uncredited)Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
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Hollywood Boulevard
as Creighton Hale - Actor at Trocadero BarWith a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines...
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The Perils of Pauline
as Marcelled Leading ManFunloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for...
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Custer's Last Stand
as HankKit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous...
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Take the High Ground!
as Army Doctor (uncredited)Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor...
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The Marriage Circle
as Dr. Gustav MuellerProfessor Stock and his wife Mizzi are unhappily married. The professor, suspicious of his wife,...
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Always Together
as Eric, Turner's Butler (uncredited)An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a...
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The Male Animal
as Reporter (uncredited)The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being...
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The Great Mr. Nobody
as Man Buying Newspaper (uncredited)A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
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Homicide
as Glorietta Desk ClerkMichael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the...
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East of the River
as Casino Floor Man (uncredited)Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other...
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Rose-Marie
as Etienne DoraySergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie,...
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Lady with Red Hair
as Reporter Eddie (uncredited)An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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Kid Nightingale
as Man Answering Telephone at Lessernan's Gymnasium (uncredited)A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
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The Circle
as Arnold CheneyElizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life...
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One Foot in Heaven
as Church Usher (uncredited)Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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On Dress Parade
as Doctor Telling Cadets 'No Visitors' (uncredited)The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a...
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Spy Ship
as ReporterA radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position...
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A Child Is Born
as Elevator Operator (uncredited)A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
as Man in Sheriff's OfficeWhen a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided...
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One Last Fling
as GusA jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a...
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Calling Philo Vance
as Du Bois - Fingerprint ManPhilo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft...
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
as Wedding SupervisorA trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and...
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Bad Men of Missouri
as Bank RepresentativeThe Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds...
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
as Wedding GuestBulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in...
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International Settlement
as ClerkIn Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun...
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Tear Gas Squad
as AnnouncerA brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
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Highway West
as Waiter (uncredited)A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
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One More Spring
as uncreditedThree people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living...
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Crime by Night
as Horace Grayson (uncredited)A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
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Footsteps in the Dark
as Mr. Harlan (uncredited)A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police...
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Engineer (uncredited)An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
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George White's Scandals
as Theatre Treasurer (uncredited)Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the...
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36 Hours to Kill
as Ticket AgentDuke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he...
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Midnight Taxi
as G-ManA federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of...
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Seven Footprints to Satan
as JimA young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help...
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This Woman
as Bobby BleedonThis Woman is a 1924 American drama film directed by Phil Rosen, written by Louis D. Lighton and...
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Father Is A Prince
as Lawrence - Bower's Accountant (uncredited)Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum...
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Murder in the Big House
as Ritter - Warden's SecretaryWhen a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter...
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Step Lively, Jeeves!
as Reporter (uncredited)A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
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Annie Laurie
as DonaldThe story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young...
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Big Town Girl
as Desk ManWhen a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the...
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Winning Your Wings
as Uncle Ed (uncredited)Winning Your Wings is a 1942 short American World War II recruitment film produced by Warner...
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Mary of the Movies
as The BoyMary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood...
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Helldorado
as Newspaper ReporterArthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her...
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The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
as Dr. CarterThe Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.
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Here Comes Happiness
as Headline Printer (uncredited)Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a...
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On Your Toes
as First Stage ManagerA Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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The Great Jewel Robber
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the...
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Out of the Fog
as uncreditedA Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up...
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The Mysterious Doctor
as LukeThe citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost...
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Sensation Hunters
as Fred BarrettDale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound...
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The Cowboy Quarterback
as BroadcasterFootball scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field...
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Should Men Walk Home?
as The Gentleman CrookMabel plays an out-and-out crook, a "Girl Bandit," no less. And she quickly hooks up with a male...
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King of the Lumberjacks
as Cashier (uncredited)Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his...
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Slapsie Maxie's
as Reporter (uncredited)In this comedic short, when a waiter accidentally knocks out boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in...
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Grief Street
as Play Co-starA reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who...
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Wine of Youth
as Richard (1897 prologueBased on a play be Rachel Crothers, WINE OF YOUTH is a solid drama about "the modern young...
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Money and the Woman
as Mack, Bank Customer (uncredited)An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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Under Your Spell
as Bailiff (uncredited)A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to...
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Beverly of Graustark
as Prince OscarBeverly Calhoun impersonates the Prince of Graustark to claim his birthright while he recovers...
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The Masquerader
as Bobby BlessingtonA drug-addicted member of Parliament needs to take time off and secretly pull his life together,...
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You Can't Escape Forever
as Newspaper Employee Taking Notes (uncredited)A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime...
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Life Begins at Forty
as Drug ClerkA small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return...
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School's Out
as Jack CrabtreeThe schoolchildren lost their last teacher because she got married and quit her job. When the...
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Just a Cute Kid
as Desk ClerkWhen he has to pay a debt to a fearsome money lender, a man accepts the help of a friend who...
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
as Mahan - Police Fingerprint Expert (uncredited)A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
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The Mine with the Iron Door
as St. JimmyThis epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old...
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Why Girls Say No
as Becky's BoyfriendA short comedy by Leo McCarey about a Jewish father who is worried about his daughter.
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Love and Learn
as Tom - the Wyngate Butler (uncredited)A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on...
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The Hidden Hand
as The Coroner (uncredited)Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who...
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The Gorilla Man
as Constable FletcherA wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.
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A Fugitive from Justice
as Reporter at Train Station (uncredited)Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on...
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Free Wheeling
as Dickie's FatherStymie takes Dickie for a ride in his runaway car and cures his stiff neck.
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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
as Hotel Desk ClerkTorchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
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My Love Came Back
as Thompson - Music Co. Clerk (uncredited)Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius...
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How to Educate a Wife
as Billy BreeseBusiness failure Ernest Todd is advised by his friend, Billy Breese, to enlist his wife's charms...
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The Bill of Rights
as New York CongressmanThis short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the...
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Million Dollar Haul
as Curley ChandlerSpecial Insurance-Investigator Dan Kennedy and his wonder dog, Tarzan the Police Dog, are called...
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The Iron Claw
as DaveyOnly Episode 7, "The Hooded Helper," of this 20-Episode Serial is known to survive. All other...
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Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos
as Rosie's Fiancee (uncredited)In this musical short, Cliff Edwards and his cowhands run a struggling dude ranch. When a pretty...
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Tea- With a Kick!
as Art BingerThe tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from...
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The Idol Dancer
as Walter KincaidA religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic...
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One Wild Night
as Bank Teller (uncredited)Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of...
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The Exploits of Elaine
as Walter Jameson (Ep. 1, 2, 3, 6)Elaine Dodge is the beautiful young daughter of Taylor Dodge, president of the Consolidated...
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The Stain
as Office ClerkAn ambitious bank teller (Edward Jose) steals a large deposit and starts life over under an...
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The Great Divide
as Edgar BlossomStephen Ghent, a mineowner, falls in love with Ruth Jordan, an arrogant girl from the East,...
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The Millionaire Kid
as Thomas NevilleThe Millionaire Kid is young Tommy Neville whose wealthy parents, Thomas and Gloria Neville are...
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One Hour Married
as uncreditedA newly-married woman disguises herself as a doughboy in order to stay close to her husband.
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The House of Shame
as Harvey BaremoreHarvey Baremore is upset with any perceived extravagance from his demure wife Druid, while he is...
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Mrs. Slacker
as Robert GibbsSusie organizes plays to benefit the Red Cross. She marries her hero, Robert, but finds out he...
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Broken Hearts of Broadway
as An OutcastThe story of a young actress trying to attain stardom on Broadway.
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Big Ears
as Wheezer's fatherWheezer pretends to be sick in order to get his parents to stop fighting.
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The Thirteenth Chair
as Willy GrosbyMrs. Philip Mason commits suicide after she has an affair with Stephen Lee, a disreputable...
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The New Exploits of Elaine
as Walter JamesonA silent action movie serial.
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The Woman the Germans Shot
as Frank BrooksThe true story of Edith Cavell, a British nurse who served with the underground in Belgium...
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The Romance of Elaine
as Walter JamesonThe heroine had little time for romancing newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, what with Doctor X,...
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The Million Dollar Mystery
as Gang MemberThis twenty-three episode serial told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and...
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Oh, Baby!
as uncreditedBilly, a diminutive manager of prizefighters, is priming Jim Stone for the heavyweight...
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The Bridge of Sighs
as uncreditedThe spoiled, arrogant and slow-witted son of a wealthy businessman falls in love with the...
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A Child for Sale
as Charles StoddardCharles Stoddard is a poor artist living with his wife and two children in Greenwich Village....
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The Midnight Message
as Billy DoddJohnny works as a Western Union messenger, while his mother earns a meager living with an old...
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Riley of the Rainbow Division
as RileyTwo pals enlist in the army during World War I. Just before they complete training camp and are...
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