Douglas Wood

Born: 1880-10-30

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Douglas Wood (October 31, 1880 – January 13, 1966) was an American actor of stage and screen during the first six decades of the 20th century. Born on Halloween 1880 (October 31), his mother, Ida Jeffreys, was a stage actress. During the course of his career, Wood would appear in dozens of Broadway productions, and well over 100 films. Towards the end of his career, he would also make several guest appearances on television. Wood died in 1966. At the end of 1933, Wood began work on his first film, with a supporting role in David Butler's comedy, Bottom's Up, starring Spencer Tracy. The following year he would originate the role in talking pictures of Wopsle in Stuart Walker's 1934 production of Great Expectations. Over the next 20 years he would appear in over 125 films, mostly in smaller and supporting roles. In 1937 he would appear in a small role in Maytime, the sound version of the 1910s play in which he had starred. Other notable films in which he appeared include: Two Against the World (1936), starring Humphrey Bogart; the Abbott and Costello vehicle, Buck Privates (1941); Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), starring Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, and Claude Rains; Howard Hawk's 1941 classic, Sergeant York, starring Gary Cooper; and The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), starring Fredric March. During the 1950s, Wood appeared in a handful of pictures, mostly B-films. During the early and mid-1950s Wood would make several guest appearances on several television series, including The Lone Ranger (1950–51), Fireside Theater (1952-53), and Topper (1954). His final screen performance would be in a small role in That Certain Feeling (1956), starring Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, and George Sanders. In 1958 Wood returned to the Broadway stage with a supporting role in Jane Eyre, it would be his final acting performance. Wood died on January 13, 1966 in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles, California.


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Waterloo Bridge

as Vicar at Estate Dance (uncredited)
Released: 1940-05-17

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man...

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Dracula's Daughter

as Dr. Townsend
Released: 1936-05-11

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

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Sergeant York

as Major Hylan (uncredited)
Released: 1941-09-27

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

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The More the Merrier

as Senator in Taxi (uncredited)
Released: 1943-05-13

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

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Dragonwyck

as Mayor Curtis (uncredited)
Released: 1946-04-19

For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin,...

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Phantom Lady

as Show Backer (uncredited)
Released: 1944-01-28

A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.

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Tomorrow Is Forever

as Charles Hamilton
Released: 1946-02-20

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war....

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Blossoms in the Dust

as Senator
Released: 1941-08-15

Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when...

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Boom Town

as Oil Man at New York Meeting (uncredited)
Released: 1940-08-30

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both...

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Love Crazy

as Sanity Hearing Doctor (uncredited)
Released: 1941-05-23

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of...

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Here Comes Mr. Jordan

as Board Member (uncredited)
Released: 1941-08-07

Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on...

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Buck Privates

as Randolph Parker II (uncredited)
Released: 1941-01-31

Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The...

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The Prisoner of Shark Island

as General Ewing
Released: 1936-02-28

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of...

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H.M. Pulham, Esq.

as Mr. 'J.T.' Bullard
Released: 1941-12-04

A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions...

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Mannequin

as Rogers (Uncredited)
Released: 1938-01-21

Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only...

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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

as Speidler
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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Great Guy

as Mayor
Released: 1936-12-01

A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being...

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Gold Is Where You Find It

as Judge H.B. Clayburn (uncredited)
Released: 1938-02-12

Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic...

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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

as Renald C. Brownley
Released: 1937-06-08

A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of...

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Harriet Craig

as Mr. Norwood (Uncredited)
Released: 1950-11-02

A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.

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The President Vanishes

as Roger Grant
Released: 1934-11-17

The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American...

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Dangerous

as Elmont
Released: 1935-12-25

Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his...

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In the Navy

as Admiral (uncredited)
Released: 1941-05-30

Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias,...

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Juarez

as Mr. Hartman (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-10

The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular...

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Eternally Yours

as Phillips
Released: 1939-10-07

Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say...

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Murder in the Big House

as Burgen
Released: 1942-04-11

When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter...

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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

as Walker
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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Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion

as Alexander Harmon
Released: 1945-05-10

Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition...

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20,000 Men a Year

as Crandall
Released: 1939-10-26

Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a...

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Honky Tonk

as Governor Wilson
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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I Am the Law

as District Attorney Bert Beery
Released: 1938-08-25

With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and...

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Two in a Crowd

as Banker Ralston
Released: 1936-10-03

When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that...

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Stand by for Action

as Sen. Masterman (uncredited)
Released: 1942-12-31

U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned...

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It Had to Be You

as Mr. Kimberly (uncredited)
Released: 1947-12-07

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

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Dangerously Yours

as Walter Chandler
Released: 1937-09-21

A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New...

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The Judge Steps Out

as Cabot Royce Winthrop (uncredited)
Released: 1947-12-15

A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.

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That Certain Feeling

as Senator
Released: 1956-06-04

When Larry Larkin's comic strip needs some freshening up, he calls in ghost-writer Francis X....

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Night Editor

as Bank Manager (Uncredited)
Released: 1946-03-29

A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.

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Patrick the Great

as Sir Orville
Released: 1945-05-04

A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware...

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This Is My Affair

as Henry Maxwell
Released: 1937-05-28

President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very...

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Hers to Hold

as Peter Cartwright
Released: 1943-07-16

Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls"...

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Voice of the Whistler

as Paul Kitridge - Attorney (uncredited)
Released: 1945-10-30

A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.

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The Missing Lady

as Alfred Kester
Released: 1946-08-17

While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the...

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East Side of Heaven

as Fisher (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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No Man's Woman

as Philip Grant
Released: 1955-10-27

A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no...

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Special Agent

as Federal Judge (uncredited)
Released: 1935-09-14

Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career...

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The Wedding Night

as Leland Heywood
Released: 1935-03-08

While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett...

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Come Out Fighting

as Mayor
Released: 1945-09-29

The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son.

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The Senator Was Indiscreet

as University President
Released: 1947-12-31

A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the...

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Teddy the Rough Rider

as President William McKinley
Released: 1940-02-21

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was...

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Blondie's Big Moment

as Theodore Payson (uncredited)
Released: 1947-01-09

Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry...

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The Man Who Found Himself

as Medical Board Doctor
Released: 1937-04-02

Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his...

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Kentucky

as Race Track Patron
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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On the Avenue

as Mr. Trivet
Released: 1937-02-12

A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get...

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Wedding Present

as Willett
Released: 1936-10-09

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

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Parachute Nurse

as Maj. Devon
Released: 1942-08-06

Nurses parachuting.

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Crazy House

as Studio Bidder
Released: 1943-10-08

Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another...

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What a Woman

as Dean Alfred B. Shaeffer
Released: 1943-12-29

An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.

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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

as uncredited
Released: 1943-02-19

A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.

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Fun on a Weekend

as John Durand (Uncredited)
Released: 1947-05-15

Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired...

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College Rhythm

as George Collins
Released: 1934-11-23

The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the...

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Public Deb No. 1

as Director
Released: 1940-09-13

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her...

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Babies for Sale

as Dr. Aleshire
Released: 1940-06-14

A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a...

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National Red Cross Pageant

as Herald - Flemish episode
Released: 1917-12-01

The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to...

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Spring Parade

as General
Released: 1940-09-27

In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a...

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An Old-Fashioned Girl

as Mr. Shaw
Released: 1949-01-19

A music teacher in 1870s Boston works hard to succeed, while her wealthy distant relatives find...

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Two Against the World

as Malcolm Sims
Released: 1936-07-11

Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program...

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The Man in the Barn

as Army Officer (uncredited)
Released: 1937-11-20

After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was...

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West of Shanghai

as Myron Galt
Released: 1937-10-30

American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local...

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Off the Record

as J. W.
Released: 1939-01-21

After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to...

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Three Smart Girls Grow Up

as Uncle Joe
Released: 1939-03-24

Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together,...

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Great Expectations

as Wopsle
Released: 1934-10-22

A young boy, Pip, encounters an escaped prisoner, Magwitch, and steals food for him. After the...

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The Good Fellows

as John Drayton
Released: 1943-08-11

The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim...

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Jailbreak

as Governor Daden
Released: 1936-08-05

A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.

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I'm from Arkansas

as Governor
Released: 1944-10-31

A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.

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Spring Tonic

as Mr. Ingalls
Released: 1935-06-27

Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained...

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Three Loves Has Nancy

as Mr. Hanson (uncredited)
Released: 1938-09-02

A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically...

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The Beloved Brat

as Mr. Butler
Released: 1938-04-30

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her...

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The Great Impersonation

as Lord Allison (uncredited)
Released: 1935-12-08

The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set...

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Navy Born

as Mr. Strickland
Released: 1936-06-02

A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy,...

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Border Outlaws

as Rancher Kimball
Released: 1950-11-01

Western tale of a special agent (Bill Edwards) unravelling a series of rustlings on and around...

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The Fountain

as de Greve
Released: 1934-08-22

Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned...

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Over the Goal

as Dr. Marshall
Released: 1937-10-16

The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss...

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Little Miss Broadway

as Richard Nichols Sr.
Released: 1947-06-19

Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially...

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Because of Him

as Samual Hapgood
Released: 1946-01-18

A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous...

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I Surrender Dear

as R.H. Collins
Released: 1948-10-06

Patty Nelson lands a job as a singer with orchestra leader Al Tyler, and tours with the band as...

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Bottoms Up

as John Baldwin
Released: 1934-04-12

Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda...

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Guns of the Pecos

as Texas Governor
Released: 1936-12-28

A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.

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Private Affairs

as Mr. Stanley
Released: 1940-07-05

A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up...

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Cattle Queen

as Judge Whipple
Released: 1951-11-15

After conning a potential buyer into believing that Queenie's herd is diseased, nasty would-be...

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The Trumpet Blows

as Senor Ramirez
Released: 1934-04-14

In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife....

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Mardi Gras

as Harrison Piske
Released: 1943-10-01

The first of a series of six two-reel "Musical Parade" shorts produced in Technicolor for the...

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The Big Show-Off

as Dr. Dinwiddle
Released: 1945-01-22

A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in...

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Sudden Money

as Mr. Jordan
Released: 1939-03-31

Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father...

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College Scandal

as Dean Traynor
Released: 1935-06-21

Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new...

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A Night at the Ritz

as Board of Directors' Chairman (uncredited)
Released: 1935-03-23

A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.

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Two Blondes and a Redhead

as Judge Abbott
Released: 1947-11-05

Socialite Cathy Abbott is working in the chorus of a Broadway show instead of being enrolled at...

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Shamrock Hill

as Judge Mayer
Released: 1949-02-01

A young girl holds a special place in her heart for a place called Shamrock HIll, and she tries...

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