Frank Mayo
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frank Mayo (June 28, 1889 – July 9, 1963) was an American actor. He appeared in 310 films between 1911 and 1949. He was born in New York, New York, and died in Laguna Beach, California, from a heart attack. He was married to actress Dagmar Godowsky from 1921-1928. The marriage was annulled in August 1928 on the ground that Mayo had another wife. Mayo was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Gilda
as Gambler (uncredited)A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
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Sergeant York
as Reporter (uncredited)Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is...
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San Francisco
as Dealer (uncredited)A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days...
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They Drive by Night
as Motorist at Accident Scene (uncredited)Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small...
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They Died with Their Boots On
as Orderly (uncredited)The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his...
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The Roaring Twenties
as Policeman (uncredited)After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George...
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Gentleman Jim
as Gov. Stanford (uncredited)As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and...
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Santa Fe Trail
as Engineer (uncredited)As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B....
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Mr. Skeffington
as Stock Broker (uncredited)A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her...
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State of the Union
as City OfficialAn industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on...
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Undercurrent
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of...
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Manpower
as Midnight Club Doorman (uncredited)Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident...
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
as Bailiff (uncredited)A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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Dark Victory
as Judith's Friend (uncredited)Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her...
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The Oklahoma Kid
as Land Agent (uncredited)McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious...
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Plainclothesman (uncredited)An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a...
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In This Our Life
as Policeman in Car (uncredited)An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining...
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Old Acquaintance
as Army Officer (uncredited)Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
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The Great Waltz
as Ship's Officer (uncredited)Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
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Souls for Sale
as Tom HolbyA young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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Invisible Stripes
as Prison Gate Guard (uncredited)A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Show Boat
as uncreditedDespite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into...
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Private Detective
as John Crane, Mona's Lawyer (uncredited)A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder...
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Across the Pacific
as Trial Judge Advocate (uncredited)Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is...
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Torrid Zone
as ShafferA Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
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Kid Galahad
as (uncredited)Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the...
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Action in the North Atlantic
as Major / Seaman (uncredited)Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are...
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Expensive Husbands
as Motion Picture DirectorUnable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where...
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Panhandle
as Poker Player (uncredited)An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
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In the Good Old Summertime
as Guest (uncredited)Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry...
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The Bribe
as American Tourist (uncredited)United States Federal agent Rigby travels to the Central American island Carlotta to investigate...
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The Hard Way
as Railroad Ticket Taker (Uncredited)Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their...
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British Intelligence
as Brixton - Intelligence AgentDuring WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with...
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Kid Nightingale
as Tall Creditor (uncredited)A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
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Princess O'Rourke
as Airline Passenger (uncredited)A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Assistant in HospitalTrue story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure...
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Alias Nick Beal
as Committee ManAfter straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his...
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The Return of Doctor X
as Attorney (uncredited)When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova...
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The Fuller Brush Man
as Chess-Playing Club Member (uncredited)Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make...
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Desert Gold
as Henchman Bert LashChet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location....
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Jungle Jim
as Tom RedmondTwo safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a...
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The Fighting 69th
as Captain Bootz (uncredited)Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy,...
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Escape in the Fog
as Bartender (uncredited)A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she...
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The Scarlet Clue
as Det. Hodge (uncredited)Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while...
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Doughboys
as Capt. ScottElmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until...
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They Made Me a Criminal
as Man at First Fight with Tophat (uncredited)A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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Homecoming
as Doctor (uncredited)Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out...
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
as Joe OakeyThe Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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Corvette K-225
as Captain of Merchant ShipThe story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Spy Ship
as Police SergeantA radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position...
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
as Tribune PhotographerNancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the...
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Killer McCoy
as Man at Bar (uncredited)Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his...
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Four Mothers
as Worker Not Wearing Mask (uncredited)Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as FBI Agent Phillips (uncredited)FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Sutter's Gold
as Miner in BarStory of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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The Wagons Roll at Night
as WallyAn escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and...
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Words and Music
as Minor Role (uncredited)Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner,...
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Footsteps in the Dark
as Joe a Cop (uncredited)A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police...
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A Child Is Born
as Policeman (uncredited)A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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Naughty But Nice
as Frank, Superior Court Bailiff (uncredited)Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and...
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Lady Gangster
as WalkerAn actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery....
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No Time for Comedy
as Actor in Show (uncredited)An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
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Mademoiselle Fifi
as Sergeant at Inn (uncredited)In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride...
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Hollywood Boulevard
as Frank Mayo - Actor at Trocadero BarWith a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines...
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Wild Oranges
as John WoolfolkMillie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from...
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The Perils of Pauline
as Reporter at Reception (uncredited)Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for...
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Two in the Dark
as Hotel Desk ClerkFord Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he...
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Buck Privates Come Home
as The Colonel (uncredited)Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French...
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Mary Regan
as Robert CliffordMary Regan is the daughter of a gentleman crook and an heiress. Although she has received a good...
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The Phantom Creeps
as Train EngineerA mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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Chinatown After Dark
as Ralph BonnerThe female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing...
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Alice in Movieland
as Sam Purdee (uncredited)In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood....
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Dr. Jim
as Dr. Jim KeeneAlthough renowned pediatrician Dr. Jim Keene loves his wife, Helen, she resents his devotion to...
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East of the River
as Prison Guard (uncredited)Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other...
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The Women Men Marry
as Man at Auction (uncredited)A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
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To the Ends of the Earth
as Ship's Captain (uncredited)A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
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Women in the Wind
as Salesman (uncredited)A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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'Til We Meet Again
as Man (uncredited)Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to...
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The Male Animal
as Coach SpragueThe trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being...
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Sea Devils
as Coast Guard Officer (uncredited)Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and...
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Steel Against the Sky
as New Worker (uncredited)Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
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Love Is on the Air
as Businessman at MeetingA newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
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Smashing the Money Ring
as Bill - Moving Van Driver (uncredited)T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up...
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Secret Service of the Air
as Treasury Agent ManningBrass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go...
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On Your Toes
as Third PolicemanA Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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The Accusing Finger
as Copy Desk EditorA proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself...
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Code of the Secret Service
as Casino Manager (uncredited)Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
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Flowing Gold
as Mike BranniganIn the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes...
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The Big Shot
as Doctor (uncredited)Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a...
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The Undercover Man
as Jury ForemanFrank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob...
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
as Keeper Collins (uncredited)Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun...
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Out of the Fog
as ReporterA Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up...
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
as Officer (uncredited)Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of...
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Nancy Drew... Reporter
as Man Leaving Courthouse (uncredited)While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to...
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The Great Mr. Nobody
as Fireman (uncredited)A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
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Blues in the Night
as Gambler Watching Kay Throw Dice (uncredited)A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds...
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Hot Tip
as Racetrack Bettor Looking for TipAn amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing...
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Heart of the North
as Miner (uncredited)A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound...
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The Phantom Creeps
as West's BossNot a feature, but an edited version of the 1939 serial "The Phantom Creeps" which was released...
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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
as McGuire's Arresting Officer (uncredited)Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
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One Foot in Heaven
as Waiting Train Passenger (uncredited)Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Fair Warning
as HeadwaiterIn California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a...
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Cowboy from Brooklyn
as Reporter at RodeoA singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
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Tear Gas Squad
as Nick, proprietorA brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
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Across the Dead-Line
as John KidderGilead is a lumber town that is dominated by two branches of the Kidder family: the puritanical,...
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Highway West
as Police Patrolman (uncredited)A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
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Calling Philo Vance
as Doorman (uncredited)Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft...
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Castle on the Hudson
as Visitor Room Guard (uncredited)A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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If I Marry Again
as Jeffrey WingateWhen his son marries a woman whose mother is the madame of a brothel, a wealthy father in San...
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An Angel from Texas
as Bill - Cigar AttendantA pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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I Am the Law
as Witness (uncredited)With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and...
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The Mysterious Doctor
as Simon TewksburyThe citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost...
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Range Law
as Jim BlountHaving escaped from prison, a cowboy looks for the man that framed him.
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3 Kids and a Queen
as CustomerAn eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She...
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The Lady Confesses
as CoronerAn estranged wife shows up after a nearly 7 years of disappearance -- thought to be dead, to...
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Her Husband's Affairs
as Vice President StarrettBill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets...
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Teddy the Rough Rider
as Cabinet MemberThis short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was...
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The Nurse's Secret
as PolicemanAn apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
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Bullets for O'Hara
as WeldonA detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
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Tim Tyler's Luck
as Jim ConwayA 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla...
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Colorado
as Frank AustinWhile in an army camp waiting to be discharged, Lt. Frank Hayden sees a fellow officer, Capt....
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Swingtime in the Movies
as Mr. Dodds (uncredited)In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.
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The Brighton Strangler
as Policeman (Uncredited)After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe...
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Hitchin' Posts
as Jefferson ToddJefferson Todd and Louis Castiga, brothers-in-law, come to blows on a Mississippi River steamer...
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Hollywood Handicap
as Laughing Man in Race CrowdA group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They...
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Alias: The Bad Man
as Rance CollinsA ranger joins the outlaw gang whose boss he believes is a murderer.
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Racetrack
as Undetermined RoleJoe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but...
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Hitchhike to Happiness
as Police Detective (uncredited)An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes...
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The Triflers
as Monte CovingtonMarjorie Stockton is a fickle flapper who has loads of suitors. She won't give any of them the...
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I Was Framed
as uncreditedA reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
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Bad Men of Missouri
as HenchmanThe Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds...
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Give Us This Night
as ManAfter being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman...
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She Couldn't Say No
as Town MarshalTwo big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with...
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Hell's Headquarters
as Phil TalbotDoctor Smith and his wife, Mary,depart a riverboat and are met by Phil Talbot. Phil informs Dr....
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The Falcon in Mexico
as Inspector O'Shea (uncredited)The Falcon travels to Mexico where he gets involved with murder and a mysterious painting.
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The Cowboy Quarterback
as Jail GuardFootball scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field...
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Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
as DetectiveJoe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to...
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
as Policeman (uncredited)A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
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Slightly French
as Soundman (uncredited)A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a...
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The Woman on the Jury
as Fred MastersThe story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but...
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The Peddler of Lies
as ClampAt a party thrown at the Metcalf estate, the Marquise D'Irancy's Sultana diamond disappears when...
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Betsy Ross
as Clarence VernonRevolutionary War heroine Betsy Ross finds herself in competition with her sister for the...
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The Singing Kid
as Audience Member (uncredited)Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While...
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Burning Gold
as Brent TaylorJim Thornton is an independent wildcat driller in Califonia who hits a gusher and overnight...
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Don't Turn 'em Loose
as Parole Board MemberA conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an...
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The Daring Young Man
as DetectiveThe Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl...
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Burnt Wings
as Ned TempletonStruggling artist Ned Templeton and his wife Joan are leading a poverty-stricken life in Paris....
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Men of the Sky
as Mr. Mathews (uncredited)A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S....
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The Fighting Lover
as Andrew ForsdaleAndrew Forsdale bets his friend Ned Randolph $10,000 that Ned will fall in love with one of...
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The Bronze Bride
as Harvey OgdenDisgusted with his son Harvey's attitude since his return from college, wealthy William Ogden...
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The Red Lane
as Norman AldrichAfter returning home from years spent in a convent, Marie Beaulieu, is shocked to discover that...
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The Devil's Mask
as Quentin MitchellA San Francisco airplane bound for South America crashes, and among the scorched debris is found...
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The Perfect Flapper
as Reed AndrewsA 1924 film directed by John Francis Dillon.
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Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
as Dirigible CaptainA 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time...
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Honor Bound
as Billy ThorpeIrresponsible Billy Thorpe is sent to South America by his financée Claire's father, George...
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Is Love Everything?
as Robert WhitneyVirginia Carter accedes to her family's pressures and marries Jordan Southwick, who comes from a...
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The Gorilla Man
as Constable RyanA wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.
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The Blazing Trail
as Bradley Yates (Pickens)Young doctor Bradley Yates has been trying to come up with a serum to counteract blood...
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The Altar Stairs
as Rod McLeanOn an island in the South Seas, derelict Tony Heritage is rescued from savage natives by trader...
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Tracked to Earth
as Charles CrannerA railroad detective is falsely accused by a rancher's daughter Virginia Valli of being a...
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The Shadow of the East
as Barry CravenBarry Craven meets former sweetheart Gillian Locke, who is visiting India with her father....
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Stolen Hours
as Philip DuranDuring a raid on a gambling establishment run by her father, Cosmo Lester, Diana Lester rescues...
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The Girl in Number 29
as uncreditedLaurie Devon is a New York playwright who, having had one success, refuses to work on another play.
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The First Degree
as Sam BassSam Bass receives a summons to testify before a grand jury, and not realizing that the matter...
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The Red Circle
as Dr. Max LamarThe Red Circle is a birthmark, on the hand of the heroine, noticeable only in times of stress...
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The Necessary Evil
as Dick JeromeBen Lyon and Viola Dana co-star in this heavy society drama
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A Little Brother of the Rich
as uncreditedBased on the novel by Joseph Medill Patterson.
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