Edward McWade
Edward McWade was an American writer and stage and screen actor. He appeared in more than 132 films from 1919 to 1944, mostly in secondary roles. He also wrote 15 stage plays and silent film scenarios.
Arsenic and Old Lace
as GibbsMortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes...
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Woman of the Year
as Adolph (uncredited)Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their...
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The Return of Frank James
as Colonel JacksonFarmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
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Jezebel
as Second Director (uncredited)In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who...
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I Wake Up Screaming
as Old man at library (uncredited)A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a...
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They Won't Forget
as Confederate SoldierA southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate...
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Brother Orchid
as Aged Brother (uncredited)When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill...
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White Banners
as SloanA homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small...
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Three Comrades
as Ludwig, Pat’s majordomo (uncredited)A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World...
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Crash Dive
as CronyA US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German...
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Nothing But the Truth
as Elderly Clerk (uncredited)A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for...
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The Hard Way
as Stage Doorman (Uncredited)Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their...
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Zenobia
as MinisterA modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming...
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Frisco Kid
as TupperAfter a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him...
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The Girl from 10th Avenue
as Art ClerkWhen his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and...
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Murders in the Zoo
as Dan Baker (Uncredited)Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His...
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Chad Hanna
as EliasCountry boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he...
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The Goose and the Gander
as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a...
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Indianapolis Speedway
as Tom DuganA champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession...
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The Crowd Roars
as Tom Beal the CountermanFamous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race,...
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
as Bishop MalloryA Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of...
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Two Seconds
as The Prison DoctorA condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being...
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If You Could Only Cook
as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
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The Notorious Sophie Lang
as Jeweler (uncredited)After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful,...
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Lady in a Jam
as Ground-HogA psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's...
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Journal of a Crime
as RigaudA woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
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Oil for the Lamps of China
as DanAn American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
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Girl Missing
as Henry Gibson's Valet (Uncredited)Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's...
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as Minister in Film (uncredited)A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his...
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The Calling of Dan Matthews
as Lawyer PartingtonDan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters),...
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King of the Islands
as The Princess' FatherIn this musical short, a shipwrecked sailor is washed up on the shores of a tropical island and...
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The Women Men Marry
as Brother LambA newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
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The Monster
as Luke WatsonA general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took...
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Stranded
as Tim PowersA Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
as NeighborJoe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get...
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Money and the Woman
as Bank Customer Explaining 'NSF' (uncredited)An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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Bad Little Angel
as Ticket Seller at Station (uncredited)A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
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Big City Blues
as Baggage Master (uncredited)An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his...
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A Dispatch from Reuters
as Chemist Who Poisoned Medicine (uncredited)German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news...
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Satan Met a Lady
as City Fathers Committee Member (uncredited)In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying...
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I'll Tell the World
as TrapperLee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the...
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Bureau of Missing Persons
as Tom - Dock Watchman (uncredited)Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police...
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Let's Get Married
as TomLet's Get Married is a 1937 American comedy film starring Ida Lupino, who plays the daughter of...
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The Big Noise
as Douglas, the Gardener (uncredited)The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet...
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Teddy the Rough Rider
as Russell Alger, Secretary of WarThis short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was...
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The Meanest Gal in Town
as ClarkA stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
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I Sell Anything
as Mr. Arden - Old Man (uncredited)Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
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Mary Jane's Pa
as Chuck - the Old TimerSam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family,...
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Garden of the Moon
as Peter McGillicuddyDon Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by...
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Naughty But Nice
as Professor Trill (uncredited)Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and...
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Life Begins at Forty
as DoctorA small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return...
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The Country Doctor
as Newspaper Editor (uncredited)A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he...
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Hot Steel
as CarltonMatt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works....
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Dangerous Days
as Dr. HaverfordPatriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to...
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Comet Over Broadway
as HarveyStory of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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The Case of the Black Cat
as Keene's Apartment Manager (uncredited)Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter...
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The Big Shot
as Uncle IraA young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next...
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Red Salute
as BaldyThe rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to...
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Murder in the Clouds
as Clement WilliamsBob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to...
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I Married a Doctor
as Pa DawsonCity girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the...
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She Had to Eat
as Stationmaster Tucker (uncredited)An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric...
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One Exciting Adventure
as Grouchy ManOne Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake...
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Darkest Africa
as GornA 15-episode serial in which Beatty goes to darkest Africa to rescue the Goddess of Joba, who is...
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Gentlemen Are Born
as PawnbrokerA well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in...
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A Lost Lady
as SimpsonA bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
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Here's to Romance
as Stage DoormanKathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to...
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Stop Thief
as Mr. CarrWhen Jack Dougan and Snatcher Nell, partners in crime as well as love, decide to purloin the...
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The Patient in Room 18
as Frank WarrenChoreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of...
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Love and Hisses
as Ticket SellerAs part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist...
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Laughing at Trouble
as HarveyA man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper...
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Alibi for Murder
as Walter Emerson (Uncredited)A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops...
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Shipmates Forever
as Tailor (uncredited)An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner....
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Famous Boners
as Thomas Carlyle (uncredited)This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were...
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6 Hours to Live
as IvanA murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only...
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The Strangers' Banquet
as HarrimanIn managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems...
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Deserted at the Altar
as The SheriffAnna Moore, a poor orphaned country girl, and her little brother, Tommy, live with hypocritical...
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F-Man
as Mr. WhitneyJohnny Dime has aspiration of becoming a "G-Man" , gums up the work of Rogan, an actual...
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