Donald Douglas

Born: 1905-08-24

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Donald Douglas (24 August 1905 – 31 December 1945) was a Scottish actor in films and on radio. Douglas appeared in over 100 films from the late 1920s to the 1940s including The Great Gabbo (1929), Life Begins (1932), Men in White (1934), Madame X (1937), Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941), Now, Voyager (1942), Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942), Tall in the Saddle (1944), Murder, My Sweet (1944), Show Business (1944) and Gilda (1946). Douglas was a one-man cast on The Black Castle. He played all roles in each episode and was the announcer. A review of The Black Castle in the trade publication Billboard complimented Douglas's handling of multiple roles in the drama. Bob Francis wrote: "Except for the fact that he is inclined to ham the wizard, making the role often seem more silly than awesome, Douglas puts on a good 15 minutes. His vocal changes are sharp and clear, and his characterizations come over effectively." He also had the title role in John Steele, Adventurer and played Chief Jake Workley in Scattergood Baines. He was also a member of the cast of Kelly's Courthouse. Douglas died on 31 December 1945 in Los Angeles, California, aged 40, after emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.


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Gilda

as Thomas Langford
Released: 1946-04-25

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

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Murder, My Sweet

as Police Lt. Randall
Released: 1944-12-14

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply...

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Sergeant York

as Captain Tillman (uncredited)
Released: 1941-09-27

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is...

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Tales of Manhattan

as 'Hen 'Henderson (Robinson sequence) (as Don Douglas)
Released: 1942-08-05

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed...

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Action in the North Atlantic

as Lieutenant-Commander (uncredited)
Released: 1943-06-12

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are...

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Tall in the Saddle

as Harolday
Released: 1944-09-29

When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has...

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Tarzan and the Amazons

as Andres
Released: 1945-04-29

A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of...

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Jesse James

as Infantry Captain (uncredited)
Released: 1939-01-14

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

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Flight Command

as 1st Duty Officer
Released: 1940-12-27

A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school...

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Men in White

as Mac
Released: 1934-04-06

A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his...

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Sleepers West

as 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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Deadwood Dick

as Dick Stanley, aka Deadwood Dick
Released: 1940-07-19

Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.

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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

as Mr. Grayson, Patient losing Eye Sight (uncredited)
Released: 1940-04-12

Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.

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Fast and Loose

as Forbes
Released: 1939-02-17

The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.

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I Love You Again

as Herbert
Released: 1940-08-09

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and...

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Hold Back the Dawn

as Joe (uncredited)
Released: 1941-09-26

Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota...

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The More the Merrier

as FBI Agent Harding
Released: 1943-05-13

It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington,...

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Navy Blue and Gold

as Lt. North (uncredited)
Released: 1937-11-19

Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.

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The Great Gabbo

as Frank
Released: 1929-09-12

For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he...

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Pacific Liner

as Ship's Officer (uncredited)
Released: 1939-01-06

An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from...

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Mr. Moto in Danger Island

as Ship's Officer - Fight Referee
Released: 1939-04-07

In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel...

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Second Fiddle

as Film Director
Released: 1939-06-30

Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back...

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On Dress Parade

as Col. Wm. Duncan
Released: 1939-11-18

The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a...

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Lazy River

as Officer
Released: 1934-03-16

Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.

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Fast Company

as Lt. James Flanner
Released: 1938-07-05

Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

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Show Business

as Charlie Lucas (as Don Douglas)
Released: 1944-05-10

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

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Cheers for Miss Bishop

as Delbert Thompson
Released: 1941-02-21

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a...

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Don't Talk

as FBI Agent Jack Sampson
Released: 1942-02-28

This Crime Does Not Pay series entry dramatizes the idea that during wartime, people should not...

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Stronger Than Desire

as Mack Clark - Flagg's Investigator (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-30

An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

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Tokyo Rose

as Timothy O'Brien
Released: 1946-02-08

Lotus Long plays the title role, an American-educated Japanese woman broadcasting enemy...

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Sabotage

as Joe Grayson
Released: 1939-10-13

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is...

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Judge Hardy's Children

as J.J. Harper (uncredited)
Released: 1938-03-26

Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French...

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A Royal Scandal

as Variatinsky (uncredited)
Released: 1945-03-26

Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.

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Appointment in Berlin

as Bill Banning (uncredited)
Released: 1943-07-15

The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war...

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Heavenly Days

as Dr. George Gallup
Released: 1944-10-20

Fibber McGee and Molly innocently get mixed up with the federal government.

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Wings of the Navy

as Officer of the Day
Released: 1939-02-11

Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both...

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Wintertime

as Jay Rogers (uncredited)
Released: 1943-09-17

Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada....

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Edison, the Man

as Jordan
Released: 1940-05-10

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story...

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The Get-Away

as James 'Jim' Duff (as Don Douglas)
Released: 1941-06-13

A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.

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On the Sunny Side

as Mr. George Andrews (as Don Douglas)
Released: 1942-02-13

Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews...

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A Fugitive from Justice

as Lee Leslie
Released: 1940-06-15

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

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Madame X

as Mr. Edison
Released: 1937-10-01

An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that...

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The Spider's Web

as Jenkins
Released: 1938-10-21

Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles...

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The Great Swindle

as Bill Farrow
Released: 1941-04-10

In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a...

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Charlie Chan in Panama

as Captain Lewis
Released: 1940-03-01

Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would...

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Smashing the Rackets

as Harry Spaulding
Released: 1938-08-08

Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a...

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The Mysterious Miss X

as Clarence Fredericks
Released: 1939-01-10

After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick...

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The Falcon Out West

as Attorney Steven Hayden
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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The Zero Hour

as Stewart Brewster
Released: 1939-05-26

A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through...

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Behind the Rising Sun

as O'Hara
Released: 1943-08-01

A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.

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He Couldn't Take It

as Oakley
Released: 1933-12-15

Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a...

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Fugitive at Large

as Stevens
Released: 1939-12-07

George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio...

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Sequoia

as Forest Ranger (uncredited)
Released: 1935-01-16

A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.

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Island of Doomed Men

as Department of Justice Official
Released: 1940-05-20

An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a...

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The Women Men Marry

as Auctioneer McVey (uncredited)
Released: 1937-09-10

A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.

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Club Havana

as Johnny Norton (as Don Douglas)
Released: 1945-11-23

A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a...

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Whistling in the Dark

as Deputy Commissioner O'Neill
Released: 1941-08-08

The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is...

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Melody Lane

as J. Roy Thomas
Released: 1941-12-09

In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and...

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The Night of January 16th

as Attorney Polk
Released: 1941-11-28

Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking...

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Tomorrow's Children

as Dr. Brooks
Released: 1934-07-02

Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by...

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Smashing the Money Ring

as Gordon (uncredited)
Released: 1939-10-21

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up...

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Gallant Sons

as Hackberry
Released: 1940-11-15

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to...

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The Crowd Roars

as Murray
Released: 1938-08-06

A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the...

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A Shot in the Dark

as Roger Armstrong
Released: 1941-04-05

A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.

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Dead Men Tell

as Jed Thomasson
Released: 1941-03-28

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

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Within the Law

as Inspector Burke
Released: 1939-03-17

A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.

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Special Inspector

as Williams
Released: 1938-02-14

U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which...

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Murder Among Friends

as Joe Ellis
Released: 1941-02-28

A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy.

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Grissly's Millions

as Ellison Hayes
Released: 1945-01-16

An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.

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Calling Philo Vance

as Philip Wrede
Released: 1940-02-03

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft...

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Little Tokyo, U.S.A.

as Hendricks
Released: 1942-07-08

Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is...

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He's My Guy

as Kirk (as Don Douglas)
Released: 1943-03-26

The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.

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A Woman's Man

as Walter Payson - Horseback Rider
Released: 1934-02-06

A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling...

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Mercy Island

as Clay Foster
Released: 1941-10-09

The beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a...

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The Truth About Murder

as Paul Marvin
Released: 1946-04-01

A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of...

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The Strange Mr. Gregory

as John Randall
Released: 1945-01-12

The title character, played by Edmund Lowe, is a famous magician who fakes his own death -- then...

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Come Across

as Special Agent Thomas
Released: 1938-05-14

A bank robber pulls off a heist and comes out with a good haul. However, he winds up being...

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Headin' East

as Eric Ward
Released: 1937-12-13

A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking...

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Convicted

as District Attorney
Released: 1938-08-18

A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.

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The House of Fear

as John Woodford
Released: 1939-06-30

A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred...

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Law of the Texan

as Chet Hackett
Released: 1938-10-24

Ore shipments are being stolen and the Rangers send Buck and his men to guard the next shipment....

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The Love Department

as Gooper Goopalowski (uncredited)
Released: 1935-05-18

In this musical short, a love columnist can't find her own love connection.

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Petticoat Junction

as Mr. Wilson
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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