Edward Brophy

Born: 1895-02-26

Edward Brophy was an American character actor, voice artist, and comedian. Small of build, balding, and raucous-voiced, he frequently portrayed dumb cops and gangsters, both serious and comic. He is best remembered for his roles in the Falcon film series and for voicing Timothy Q. Mouse in Dumbo. His screen debut was in Yes or No. He appeared in The Champ, Freaks, The Thin Man, The Thin Man Goes Home (1944). He also made several appearances in the films of director John Ford.


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Dumbo

as Timothy Q. Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1941-10-31

Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks...

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It Happened on Fifth Avenue

as Gates Patrolman Cecil Felton
Released: 1947-04-17

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house...

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Freaks

as Rollo Brother
Released: 1932-01-01

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his...

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The Cameraman

as Man in Bathhouse Stall with Buster (uncredited)
Released: 1928-09-10

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

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The Thin Man

as Joe Morelli
Released: 1934-05-25

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get...

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Mad Love

as Rollo
Released: 1935-07-12

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

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Golden Boy

as Roxy Lewis
Released: 1939-09-05

Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a...

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The Last Hurrah

as Ditto Boland
Released: 1958-12-31

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield,...

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All Through the Night

as Joe Denning
Released: 1942-01-10

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

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The Invisible Woman

as Bill
Released: 1940-12-28

Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that...

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Air Force

as Marine Sgt. J.J. Callahan
Released: 1943-03-20

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack...

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Cover Girl

as Joe - Bartender (uncredited)
Released: 1944-03-22

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

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The Champ

as Tim
Released: 1931-11-21

A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.

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The Thin Man Goes Home

as Brogan
Released: 1944-12-24

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

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Dance, Girl, Dance

as Dwarfie
Released: 1940-08-30

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash...

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Wonder Man

as Torso
Released: 1945-06-08

Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster...

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Naughty Marietta

as Zeke
Released: 1935-03-29

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and...

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It Happened Tomorrow

as Jake Shomberg
Released: 1944-03-31

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This...

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Thieves Fall Out

as Rork
Released: 1941-05-03

Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his...

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China Seas

as Wilbur Timmons
Released: 1935-08-09

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret...

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Great Guy

as Pete Reilly
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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The Passionate Plumber

as Man Outside Beauty Parlor (uncredited)
Released: 1932-02-06

Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony...

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The Gay Falcon

as Detective Bates
Released: 1941-10-24

Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay...

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The Whole Town's Talking

as 'Slugs' Martin
Released: 1935-02-22

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never...

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Death on the Diamond

as Grogan
Released: 1934-09-14

Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off...

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Larceny, Inc.

as Weepy Davis
Released: 1942-04-24

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they...

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Society Lawyer

as Max
Released: 1939-03-21

Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is...

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Destroyer

as Engineer Casey
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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Gold Diggers in Paris

as Mike Coogan
Released: 1938-06-11

When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to...

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A Free Soul

as Slouch (uncredited)
Released: 1931-06-02

An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects...

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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

as Corbett
Released: 1939-02-17

Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run...

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Strike Me Pink

as Killer
Released: 1936-01-24

Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.

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The Beast of the City

as Police Dispatcher (uncredited)
Released: 1932-02-13

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

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A Slight Case of Murder

as Lefty
Released: 1938-02-26

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective...

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The Falcon in San Francisco

as Goldie Locke
Released: 1945-07-20

While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a...

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Trapped by G-Men

as Lefty
Released: 1937-09-09

Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.

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Sporting Blood

as Newsreel Cameraman (uncredited)
Released: 1931-08-08

A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through...

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Steel Against the Sky

as Pete Evans
Released: 1941-12-13

Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.

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The Falcon's Adventure

as Goldie Locke
Released: 1946-12-13

A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder.

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Calling Philo Vance

as Ryan
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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The Bride Came C.O.D.

as Hinkle
Released: 1941-07-12

A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap...

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Bundle of Joy

as Dance Contest Judge
Released: 1956-12-12

Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a...

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Skyscraper Souls

as Man in Elevator (uncredited)
Released: 1932-07-16

After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper,...

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A Scream in the Dark

as Eddie Tough
Released: 1943-10-15

A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.

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Speak Easily

as Reno
Released: 1932-08-13

A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.

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Evelyn Prentice

as Eddie Delaney
Released: 1934-11-09

A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.

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Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

as Detective
Released: 1931-02-28

Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her...

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The Last Gangster

as Fats Garvey
Released: 1937-11-12

A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang...

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The Amazing Mr. Williams

as Buck Moseby
Released: 1939-11-22

Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's...

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See My Lawyer

as Otis Fillmore
Released: 1945-03-09

Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their...

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Come On, Leathernecks!

as Max 'Curly' Maxwell
Released: 1938-08-08

The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and...

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The Great Profile

as Sylvester
Released: 1940-08-30

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John...

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The Soldier and the Lady

as Packer
Released: 1937-04-09

In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles...

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$1,000 a Minute

as Benny Dolan
Released: 1935-10-21

Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't...

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What! No Beer?

as Spike Moran
Released: 1933-02-10

When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against...

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Broadway

as Porky
Released: 1942-05-08

Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.

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Swing Parade of 1946

as Moose
Released: 1946-03-19

A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to...

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Paid

as Burglar (uncredited)
Released: 1930-12-30

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

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The Great Gambini

as Butch
Released: 1937-06-24

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

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The Poor Rich

as Flannigan
Released: 1934-02-25

Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at...

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Arson, Inc.

as Pete Purdy
Released: 1949-06-24

An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the...

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The Slowest Gun in the West

as The Bartender
Released: 1960-05-07

The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III...

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Sleepers West

as George Trautwein
Released: 1941-03-14

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder...

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Renegade Girl

as Bob Crandall
Released: 1946-12-25

A special agent hunts a female outlaw out West.

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Shadow of Doubt

as Wilcox
Released: 1935-02-15

When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the...

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Pier 23

as Prof. Shicker
Released: 1951-05-11

Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and...

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Breakdowns of 1942

as Self
Released: 1942-12-31

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.

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Paris Interlude

as Ham
Released: 1934-07-27

Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...

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Spendthrift

as Bill McGuire
Released: 1936-07-22

A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial...

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Wedding Present

as Squinty
Released: 1936-10-09

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

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I'll Fix It

as Tilly Tilson
Released: 1934-11-10

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

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Woman Trap

as George Meade (as Ed Brophy)
Released: 1936-03-06

A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars...

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Golden Gloves

as Potsy Brill
Released: 1940-08-02

An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.

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Flesh

as Dolan
Released: 1932-12-08

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to...

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A Night of Adventure

as Steve
Released: 1944-06-02

A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.

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Buy Me That Town

as Ziggy
Released: 1941-10-03

A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as...

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I Live My Life

as Pete (Uncredited)
Released: 1935-10-04

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

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Show Them No Mercy!

as Buzz
Released: 1935-12-06

A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly...

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Hide-Out

as Det. Britt
Released: 1934-08-24

Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with...

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Spring Fever

as Golf Game Spectator (uncredited)
Released: 1927-10-22

Kelly's employer, Waters, is such a keen golfer that he asks Kelly to help him improve his game...

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Romance on the Run

as Whitey Whitehouse
Released: 1938-05-11

A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets...

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Varsity Show

as Mike Barclay
Released: 1937-09-04

Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be...

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Prosperity

as Ice Cream Salesman (uncredited)
Released: 1932-11-18

Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.

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Kelly the Second

as Ike Arnold
Released: 1936-08-21

A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.

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Nine Lives Are Not Enough

as Officer Slattery
Released: 1941-09-20

A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

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Beer and Pretzels

as Theater Manager (uncredited)
Released: 1933-08-26

Ted Healy and his Stooges are fired and evicted from a theatre because Ted is annoying women...

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Sandy Gets Her Man

as Fireman Junior
Released: 1940-11-08

A young widow lets her baby be the deciding factor as to which eligible bachelor she should marry.

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Hold That Kiss

as Al
Released: 1938-05-13

Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely...

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Remember Last Night?

as Maxie
Released: 1935-10-28

After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's...

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All American Chump

as Pudgy Murphy
Released: 1936-10-16

A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters.

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Jim Hanvey, Detective

as Romo
Released: 1937-04-05

Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance...

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The Case Against Mrs. Ames

as Sid
Released: 1936-05-08

An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.

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Vacation from Love

as Barney Keenan
Released: 1938-09-29

A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.

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Blossoms On Broadway

as Prussic
Released: 1937-11-19

A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.

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Our Blushing Brides

as Joe Munsey
Released: 1930-07-19

Jerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But,...

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Career Woman

as Doc Curley
Released: 1936-12-18

A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and...

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Roaring City

as 'Professor' Fredrick Simpson Schicka
Released: 1951-05-04

A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's...

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Alias the Deacon

as Stuffy
Released: 1940-05-13

A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town...

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The Kid from Kokomo

as Eddie Black
Released: 1939-05-23

Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer...

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Hideaway Girl

as Bugs Murphy
Released: 1936-11-20

An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical.

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Yes or No

as Tom Martin
Released: 1920-06-28

Two wives, one rich, one poor, each find themselves tempted by romantic seducers, and each faces...

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Broadway to Hollywood

as Joe Mannion
Released: 1933-09-15

In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife...

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as Pick
Released: 1937-09-18

Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He...

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Oh, Doctor

as Meg Smith
Released: 1937-03-31

A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.

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Kid Nightingale

as Mike Jordon
Released: 1939-11-04

A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.

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People Will Talk

as Pete Ranse
Released: 1935-05-24

Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple...

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West Point

as Team Manager (Uncredited)
Released: 1928-01-07

Arrogant and wise-cracking Brice Wayne enrolls at the United States Military Academy at West...

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Sequoia

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

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

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Estrellados

as Assistant Director (uncredited)
Released: 1930-07-07

A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is...

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A Dangerous Affair

as Nelson
Released: 1931-09-29

Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally...

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Here Comes Trouble

as Crowley
Released: 1936-02-21

Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a...

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Girl on the Spot

as Fingers Foley
Released: 1946-01-11

Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the...

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Passport Husband

as Spike
Released: 1938-07-15

At the Club Habana, Henry Cabot, a bumbling busboy, is infatuated with the club's dancer,...

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Doughboys

as Sgt. Brophy
Released: 1930-08-30

Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until...

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Remote Control

as Al
Released: 1930-11-15

A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.

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Danger Zone

as Prof. Frederick Simpson Schicker
Released: 1951-04-20

A San Francisco man is paid to bid on a saxophone and escort a woman to a yacht party.

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A Dangerous Game

as Bugsy (misspelled Bugs in on-screen credits)
Released: 1941-08-21

Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at...

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Lady Bodyguard

as Harry Gargan
Released: 1943-01-02

A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore...

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She Gets Her Man

as Flash
Released: 1935-08-05

Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town...

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Sweetheart of Sigma Chi

as Arty
Released: 1946-11-16

A couple of gamblers pressure the local night club owner to rig things so the local college...

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Pardon Our Nerve

as Nosey Nelson
Released: 1939-02-24

Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer...

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The Hit Parade

as Mulrooney
Released: 1937-04-26

Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio...

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Madame Spy

as Mike Reese
Released: 1942-12-11

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

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The Big Guy

as Dippy
Released: 1939-12-22

A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the...

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Hello Pop

as Brophy
Released: 1933-09-16

A stage director is trying to put on a musical/comedy revue, but has to contend with...

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Penthouse Rhythm

as Bailey
Released: 1945-06-22

Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline

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I'll Remember April

as Shadow
Released: 1945-04-01

The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets...

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Those Three French Girls

as Yank
Released: 1930-10-10

An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and...

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The Sign on the Door

as Newspaper Photographer (uncredited)
Released: 1921-05-01

A 1921 film directed by Herbert Brenon.

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The Millionaire

as Preliminary Feeney
First aired: 1955-01-19

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better...

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Mr. & Mrs. North

as uncredited
First aired: 1952-10-03

Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October...

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