Erville Alderson
From Wikipedia Erville Alderson (September 11, 1882, Kansas City, Missouri – August 4, 1957, Glendale, California) was an American film actor. He appeared in nearly 200 films between 1918 and 1957.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Handwriting Expert (uncredited)After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his...
Movie pageThe Grapes of Wrath
as Arkansas Storekeeper (uncredited)Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm...
Movie pageThe Bishop's Wife
as StevensAn Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate...
Movie pageThe Greatest Show on Earth
as Spectator (uncredited)To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian,...
Movie pageI Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
as Police Chief (uncredited)A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of...
Movie pageThe Spiral Staircase
as Dr. Harvey (uncredited)On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
Movie pageThe Spirit of St. Louis
as Burt (uncredited)Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York...
Movie pageSergeant York
as Nate TomkinsAlvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is...
Movie pageHangmen Also Die!
as Liberal Official (uncredited)During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot,...
Movie pageJesse James
as Old MarshallAfter railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank...
Movie pageFury
as Plumber (uncredited)Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to...
Movie pageThe Scarlet Empress
as Chancelor Alexei BestuchefDuring the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine...
Movie pagePursued
as Townsman at Trial (uncredited)A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a...
Movie pageSomething to Live For
as Critic (uncredited)Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of...
Movie pageSanta Fe Trail
as Jefferson DavisAs a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B....
Movie pageStand Up and Fight
as Mr. Wyatt, Blake's NeighborA southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Movie pageObjective, Burma!
as Gen. Joseph W. StilwellA group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to...
Movie pageBack to Bataan
as Teacher (uncredited)An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
Movie pageMagnificent Doll
as DarcyWhile packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the...
Movie pageCanyon Passage
as Judge (uncredited)In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his...
Movie pageTwo Sisters from Boston
as Mr. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in...
Movie pageThe Tall Target
as Minister (uncredited)A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train...
Movie pageThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Sheriff at Jail (uncredited)Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes...
Movie pageMarie Antoinette
as Passport Official (uncredited)The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of...
Movie pageHonky Tonk
as Man with RailFast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but...
Movie pageThe Sea of Grass
as First Station Agent (uncredited)On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant...
Movie pageTobacco Road
as uncreditedShiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their...
Movie pageStation West
as Stageline Hired Hand (uncredited)When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence...
Movie pageAlong Came Jones
as Bartender (uncredited)An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it...
Movie pageThe Black Cat
as Doctor Williams (uncredited)Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
Movie pageArrowsmith
as Pioneer (uncredited)A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use...
Movie pageSummer Stock
as Zeb (uncredited)To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's...
Movie pageAnd the Angels Sing
as Mr. LittlefieldThe singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in...
Movie pageWells Fargo
as Marshal SamIn the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company,...
Movie pageWhen the Daltons Rode
as District Attorney WadeYoung lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the...
Movie pageThe Merry Widow
as Cart Driver (uncredited)Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved...
Movie pageKnute Rockne All American
as Kansas Farmer Witnessing Airplane Crash (uncredited)The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Movie pageGold Is Where You Find It
as Lawyer Cryden (uncredited)Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic...
Movie pageSmash-Up: The Story of a Woman
as Farmer (uncredited)A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
Movie pageDesperate
as Simon Pringle (uncredited)An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
Movie pageThe Feathered Serpent
as Prof. Scott (uncredited)In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague,...
Movie pageCommandos Strike at Dawn
as Johan GarmeA gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village,...
Movie pageAbe Lincoln in Illinois
as Stonewall Jackson (uncredited)Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham...
Movie pageFlowing Gold
as Doctor (uncredited)In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes...
Movie pageParnell
as FatherIrish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but...
Movie pageTo the Last Man
as Judge (uncredited)In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to...
Movie pageThe Stranger's Return
as FarmhandA divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she...
Movie pageEdison, the Man
as First LecturerIn flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story...
Movie pageThe Cabin in the Cotton
as Sock FisherSharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
Movie pageJudge Hardy's Children
as Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French...
Movie pageMy Favorite Blonde
as SheriffLarry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he...
Movie pageThey Call It Sin
as Mr. CullenAn innocent, young, small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted,...
Movie pageAmerica
as Justice MontagueThe story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
Movie pageHazard
as Clerk in Cheap Hotel (uncredited)A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But...
Movie pageSorrowful Jones
as Happy the Mortician (uncredited)A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her...
Movie pageLand of Liberty
as Thomas Jefferson (edited from 'Romance of Louisiana')This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
Movie pageCynara
as JasonA London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to...
Movie pageKidnapped
as MungoIn Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his...
Movie pageThe Hardys Ride High
as Bailiff (uncredited)Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney...
Movie pageDancing in the Dark
as Emery's NeighborEmery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit...
Movie pageMaryland
as DiggsA woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do...
Movie pageThe Thirteenth Guest
as John AdamsThirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the...
Movie pageSeven Keys to Baldpate
as Police Chief RobertsA writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the...
Movie pageState Fair
as Martin, Hog Breeder (Uncredited)The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
Movie pageThe Actress
as Mike McGrath (uncredited)The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.
Movie pageHoopla
as SheriffA hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
Movie pageLove Finds Andy Hardy
as Court Attendant (uncredited)Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.
Movie pageThe Man Without a Country
as President Andrew Jackson (uncredited)This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At...
Movie pageWoman Wanted
as ConstableJust after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into...
Movie pageHenry Goes Arizona
as Dr. John Clemens (uncredited)A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
Movie pageDr. Kildare Goes Home
as Boylston - City Council Member (uncredited)A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
Movie pageLazy River
as SheriffEx-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
Movie pageOutside These Walls
as Sauers (uncredited)Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper....
Movie pageAn American Romance
as Olson - Detroit Auto Works Technician (uncredited)A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.
Movie pageFirst Comes Courage
as SorenMerle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant....
Movie pageGeronimo
as Undetermined RoleThe army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a...
Movie pageThe Exciters
as Chloroform CharlieRonnie Rand, Required to marry before she is 21 or lose her inheritance, Ronnie Rand meets...
Movie pageIsn't Life Wonderful
as The ProfessorA family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and...
Movie pageHaunted Gold
as Tom BenedictJohn Mason returns to the Sally Ann mine to claim his half share. Janet Cater also returns...
Movie pageCaptain China
as DoctorThe title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after...
Movie pageIncendiary Blonde
as Ranch Owner (uncredited)Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New...
Movie pageThe Doctor Takes a Wife
as Harrison, the Printer (uncredited)A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual...
Movie pageThe Farmer Takes a Wife
as Pioneer Wagon FatherA farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
Movie pageArizona Trail
as Dan TrentA young cowboy returns home to help his father fight off a gang trying to take over the family...
Movie pageRomance of Louisiana
as Radio Broadcaster / Thomas JeffersonA short historical drama about the Louisiana Purchase.
Movie pageThe Monroe Doctrine
as William SewardThe story of President Monroe's response to attempts by Spain to interfere in South America.
Movie pageHighway West
as Dr. John Cook (uncredited)A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Movie pageAgain Pioneers
as Pa AshbyCitizens of Fairview are outraged when they learn children from the "Patch", a squalid migrant...
Movie pageThe Girl from Chicago
as Col. CarltonMary Carlton, who lives with her invalid father on a cotton plantation, receives a letter from...
Movie pageBad Men of Missouri
as Mr. AdamsThe Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds...
Movie pageCareer Woman
as Dr. AndersonA young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and...
Movie pageJudge Hardy and Son
as Bailiff (uncredited)Judge Hardy guides Andy through problems with girls, money and an essay contest.
Movie pageNancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
as Clint GriffithWhen a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided...
Movie pageTrifles of Importance
as Frederick the Great (uncredited)Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant...
Movie pageFazil
as Iman IdrisAn Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love...
Movie pageParachute Battalion
as Pa HollisDirector Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they...
Movie pageThe Lash
as Judge TraversA nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people...
Movie pageYou Can't Escape Forever
as Mr. Crowder (uncredited)A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime...
Movie pageSally of the Sawdust
as Judge Henry L. FosterJudge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl...
Movie pageThe Shanghai Chest
as Walter SomervaleCharlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all...
Movie pageLincoln in the White House
as Secretary of State William H. SewardThis short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the...
Movie pageSociety Fever
as Uncle AndyA mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to...
Movie pageCynthia
as Dingle Clerk (Uncredited)Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
Movie pageMobs, Inc.
as Town Insurance AgentCaptain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling...
Movie pageMr. Whitney Had a Notion
as Thomas JeffersonHistorical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played...
Movie pageThe Lady from Cheyenne
as Ike FairchildFictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the...
Movie pageOut West with the Hardys
as Court Deputy (uncredited)Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his...
Movie pageAndy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
as BailiffYoung Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual...
Movie pageRedemption
as Bearded Mariner in CafeIn Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with...
Movie pageThe Heart of Maryland
as Maj. Gen. KendrickAt the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick,...
Movie pageThe White Rose
as Man of the WorldA wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes...
Movie pageSpeakeasy
as City editorNewspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of...
Movie pageThe Postman Didn't Ring
as Robert Harwood Sr.Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The...
Movie pageThe Mighty Treve
as Chris HibbensStory of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
Movie pageEducating Father
as Dr. WilloughbyJones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than...
Movie pageBoys' Ranch
as Al (uncredited)A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a...
Movie pageThe Man in the Barn
as Farmer (uncredited)After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was...
Movie pageThe Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
as BurkeBiography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
Movie pageMobs Incorporated
as Town Insurance AgentCaptain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling...
Movie pageWild and Woolly
as Deacon (uncredited)Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and...
Movie pagePursuit
as Cop"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of...
Movie pageSquare Shooter
as Dr. WayneTim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch...
Movie pageThe Dawn Trail
as Jeff DentonDissension arises between cattlemen in Osage County, Texas, and sheepherders who have settled...
Movie pageThe Valley of the Giants
as CouncilmanBryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also...
Movie pageHello, Everybody!
as HortonThe setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the...
Movie pageJohn Meade's Woman
as uncredited"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where...
Movie pageThe Richest Man in Town
as Frank the BarberThe conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come...
Movie pageMountain Justice
as Man at Meeting / Wedding GuestStalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid...
Movie pageHer Man
as uncreditedA wealthy woman moves to Appalachia to educate illiterate mountaineers, but gets caught up...
Movie pageToo Many Cooks
as J. W. Simpson - Construction WorkerA young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives...
Movie pageRangers of Fortune
as Mr. EllisAn US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town,...
Movie pageWhat's Buzzin', Cousin?
as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)Musicians help a woman (Ann Miller) and her friends make some money with a ghost-town hotel.
Movie pageThe Good-Bad Wife
as Col. DenbighWilliam Carter, a young Virginian in Paris, becomes enchanted with music hall dancer Fanchon La...
Movie pageThe Fortune Hunter
as Blinky LockwoodThe Fortune Hunter is a lost 1927 silent film comedy directed by Charles Reisner and starring...
Movie pageCareful, Soft Shoulders
as Government OfficialIn this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has...
Movie pageFleetwing
as Trad Ben SabamCapturing a beautiful horse and slave girl, Thurya young Arab Jaafor’s happiness is short lived...
Movie pageThe Fighting Code
as Joshua La PlanteThe death of a young woman's father puts a cowboy on the trail of a killer.
Movie pageOklahoma Outlaws
as John KincaidIn this short western, a gang of outlaws plots to gain control of the town of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Movie pageRacket Squad
as uncreditedRacket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock,...
TV Show pageTelephone Time
as uncreditedTelephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from...
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