Francis Sayles
Francis Sayles was born on November 22, 1891 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Black Legion (1937), The Purple Vigilantes (1938) and Midnight Phantom (1935). He died on March 19, 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Citizen Kane
as Politician (uncredited)Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a...
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The Pride of the Yankees
as Cab Driver (uncredited)The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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The Glass Key
as Seedy-Looking Man at Campaign Headquarters (uncredited)A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused...
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Ball of Fire
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia....
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Make Way for Tomorrow
as Bartender (uncredited)At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed....
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Union Pacific
as Railwayman (uncredited)One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad...
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Dodge City
as Stage Shotgun Guard (uncredited)In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of...
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Blonde Venus
as Charlie Blaine (uncredited)In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a...
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Black Legion
as CharlieWhen a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into...
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One Crowded Night
as Jasper, PostmanThe future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky...
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Satan Met a Lady
as Detective (uncredited)In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying...
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Bad Man of Deadwood
as Show SpectatorRoy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
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Easy Living
as Martin - Houseman (uncredited)J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's...
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Coney Island
as HecklerSet at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job...
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The Arizona Kid
as Man Reporting Roy AliveRoy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to...
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Man-Made Monster
as Frank Davis (uncredited)Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
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Devil's Island
as Boatman Taking Madame Lucien to MainlandA French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
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The Mystery of Marie Roget
as ParisianA detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.
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Wells Fargo
as TownsmanIn the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company,...
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The Fighting Devil Dogs
as Renault (uncredited)Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
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The Night Riders
as President James A. GarfieldTalbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and...
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Big Brown Eyes
as Barber (Uncredited)Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police...
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Crazy House
as StoogeOle Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another...
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Dr. Broadway
as ClerkA New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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Pacific Blackout
as Court ClerkFalsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout...
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The Purple Vigilantes
as Wiliam JonesDavid Ross organizes the ranchers into a vigilante group to rid the town of outlaws. The plan...
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The Son of Davy Crockett
as Dr. BanksDave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want...
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
as Ben FreemanThe Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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Below the Deadline
as Train Conductor (uncredited)After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a...
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Sunset on the Desert
as Desk ClerkJudge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of...
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Riders of Black River
as Doc Josh GreeneFormer Texas Ranger Wade Patterson (Starrett) returns to his home town, only to find that the...
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Alias Boston Blackie
as Laundry Proprietor (uncredited)It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick...
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It Happened in Hollywood
as WaiterA silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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Alcatraz Island
as Court Clerk (uncredited)A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must...
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One in a Million
as Mr. DickmanA department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in...
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Alibi for Murder
as Waiter (Uncredited)A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops...
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Overland with Kit Carson
as Dr. ParkerWhen Pegleg and his Black Raiders threaten the westward expansion of the United States, the...
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Girl Missing
as Motorcycle Policeman (Uncredited)Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's...
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Riders of Pasco Basin
as Rancher (uncredited)Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott...
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Hollywood Cavalcade
as Second Cab DriverStarting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she...
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Private Affairs
as Bailiff (uncredited)A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up...
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Midnight Phantom
as Police Surgeon KellyA newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is...
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Strangers of the Evening
as RobertsBodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine...
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Down on the Farm
as Member of Chamber of CommerceExcitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
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Moonlight in Vermont
as Dr. StubbsA poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.
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Honeymoon Lodge
as BailiffHoneymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and...
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Bum Voyage
as Madame Zaza's Manager (uncredited)The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is...
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