Frank McHugh

Born: 1898-05-22

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Francis Curray "Frank" McHugh (May 23, 1898 – September 11, 1981) was an American film and television actor. Born in Homestead, Pennsylvania, McHugh came from a theatrical family. His parents ran a stock theatre company and as a young child he performed on stage. His brother Matt and sister Kitty performed an act with him by the time he was ten years old, but the family quit the stage around 1930. Another brother, Ed, became a stage manager and agent in New York. McHugh debuted on Broadway in The Fall Guy in 1925. Warner Bros. hired him as a contract player in 1930. McHugh played everything from lead actor to sidekick and would often provide comedy relief. He appeared in over 150 films and television productions and worked with almost every star at Warner Bros. He was a close friend of James Cagney and appeared in more Cagney movies than any other actor. He appeared with him in eleven movies between 1932 and 1953. Their friendship lasted until McHugh's death. By the 1950s his film career had begun to decline, as evinced by his smaller role in Career (1959). From 1964 to 1965 he played the role of Willie Walters, a live-in handyman, on ABC's sitcom The Bing Crosby Show. His last television appearance was as Charlie Wingate in the episode "The Fix-It Man" on CBS's Lancer western series. McHugh played a handyman in that role too. McHugh was married to Dorothy Spencer. He had three children and two grandchildren. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank McHugh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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There's No Business Like Show Business

as Eddie Dugan
Released: 1954-12-16

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim...

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Going My Way

as Father Timothy O'Dowd
Released: 1944-01-01

Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining...

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Mystery of the Wax Museum

as Editor Jim
Released: 1933-02-18

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

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Mighty Joe Young

as Windy
Released: 1949-07-27

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Dodge City

as Joe Clemens
Released: 1939-04-08

In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of...

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The Roaring Twenties

as Danny Green
Released: 1939-10-28

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The Front Page

as McCue
Released: 1931-04-04

Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused...

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The Last Hurrah

as Festus Garvey
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All Through the Night

as Barney
Released: 1942-01-10

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

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

as Quince
Released: 1935-10-09

Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are...

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State Fair

as McGee
Released: 1945-08-29

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Footlight Parade

as Francis the Dance Director
Released: 1933-10-21

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife...

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I Love You Again

as 'Doc' Ryan
Released: 1940-08-09

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Carnegie Hall

as John Donovan
Released: 1947-02-28

A young Irishwoman comes to the United States to live and work with her mother as a cleaning...

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Virginia City

as Mr. Upjohn
Released: 1940-03-23

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million...

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Gold Diggers of 1935

as Humbolt Prentiss
Released: 1935-03-15

Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation...

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Bullets or Ballots

as Herman
Released: 1936-06-06

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Easy Come, Easy Go

as Captain Jack
Released: 1967-05-28

Navy frogman Ted Jackson balances his time between twin careers as a deep-sea diver and...

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The Telegraph Trail

as Corporal Tippy
Released: 1933-03-18

A greedy businessman-turned-renegade foments an Indian uprising against the coming telegraph to...

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Fashions of 1934

as Snap
Released: 1934-02-14

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner...

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A Lion Is in the Streets

as Frank Rector
Released: 1953-09-23

A charismatic peddler from the Bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in...

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The Velvet Touch

as Ernie Boyle
Released: 1948-07-13

After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

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Four Daughters

as Ben Crowley
Released: 1938-08-09

Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live...

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One Way Passage

as Skippy
Released: 1932-10-04

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a...

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City for Conquest

as 'Mutt'
Released: 1940-09-21

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and...

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Ex-Lady

as Hugo Van Hugh
Released: 1933-05-15

Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but...

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Swing Your Lady

as Popeye Bronson
Released: 1938-01-08

Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits...

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The Widow from Chicago

as Slug O'Donnell
Released: 1930-11-23

A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.

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Millie

as John Holmes
Released: 1931-02-06

After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and...

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The Hoodlum Saint

as Three Finger
Released: 1946-04-04

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that...

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Daughters Courageous

as George
Released: 1939-06-23

Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam...

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Union Depot

as The Drunk
Released: 1932-01-14

Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a...

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Boy Meets Girl

as Rossetti
Released: 1938-08-27

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to...

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Dust Be My Destiny

as Caruthers
Released: 1939-09-16

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail,...

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Corsair

as 'Chub' Hopping
Released: 1931-11-28

A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.

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The Crowd Roars

as Spud Connors
Released: 1932-04-16

Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race,...

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Parachute Jumper

as Toodles Cooper
Released: 1933-01-28

An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the...

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Kiss Me Again

as Francois
Released: 1931-01-07

An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants...

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Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

as Sniffer Sears
Released: 1937-08-11

A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.

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The House on 56th Street

as Chester Hunt
Released: 1933-12-23

A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits...

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The Fighting 69th

as "Crepe Hanger" Burke
Released: 1940-01-27

Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy,...

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The Irish in Us

as Mike O'Hara
Released: 1935-07-31

A boxer and his policeman brother feud over a police captain's daughter.

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'Til We Meet Again

as Rockingham T. Rockingham
Released: 1940-04-20

Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to...

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Four Mothers

as Ben Crowley
Released: 1941-01-04

Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.

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Here Comes the Navy

as Droopy Mullins
Released: 1934-07-21

A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.

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A Day at Santa Anita

as uncredited
Released: 1937-05-22

Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her...

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Blessed Event

as Reilly
Released: 1932-09-10

A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.

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Submarine D-1

as "Lucky" Jones
Released: 1937-11-27

Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and...

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Miss Grant Takes Richmond

as Kilcoyne
Released: 1949-10-20

A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up...

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High Pressure

as Mike Donahey
Released: 1932-01-10

Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber...

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Breakdowns of 1938

as Popeye Bronson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1938-12-31

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

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Professional Sweetheart

as Speed Dennis
Released: 1933-06-09

Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the...

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Manpower

as Omaha
Released: 1941-08-09

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident...

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My Son John

as Father O'Dowd
Released: 1952-04-08

In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.

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Maybe It's Love

as Willie Sands
Released: 1935-01-12

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple...

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Heat Lightning

as Frank
Released: 1934-03-01

A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.

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Career

as Charlie Gallagher
Released: 1959-10-08

Playwright James Lee adapted his off-Broadway play for the screen in this high-strung...

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A Tiger Walks

as Bill Watkins
Released: 1964-04-12

A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the...

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The Dark Horse

as Joe
Released: 1932-06-16

The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark...

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On Your Toes

as Paddy Reilly
Released: 1939-10-14

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

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Return of the Terror

as Joe Hastings
Released: 1934-07-07

"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has...

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Tomorrow at Seven

as Clancy
Released: 1933-06-01

People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace".

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Four Wives

as Ben Crowley
Released: 1939-12-22

In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as...

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Marry the Girl

as David Partridge
Released: 1937-07-13

Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to...

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Bowery to Broadway

as Joe Kirby
Released: 1944-11-03

Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them...

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Back Street

as Ed Porter
Released: 1941-02-07

Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie...

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Stage Struck

as Sid
Released: 1936-09-12

A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway...

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It Happens Every Thursday

as Fred Hawley
Released: 1953-04-22

New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly...

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The Dawn Patrol

as Flaherty
Released: 1930-07-10

World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is...

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A Medal for Benny

as Edgar Lovekin
Released: 1945-04-16

Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he...

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A Dream Comes True

as Himself (uncredited)
Released: 1935-12-31

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

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He Couldn't Say No

as Lambert T. Hunkins
Released: 1938-03-19

A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for...

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Havana Widows

as Mr. Duffy, the Lawyer
Released: 1933-11-18

Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

as Skeets, a Reporter
Released: 1932-05-28

A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a...

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Say One for Me

as Jim Dugan
Released: 1959-06-19

Father Conroy has a parish which serves the acting and performance community. When one of his...

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The Spiral Staircase

as Constable Williams
Released: 1961-10-04

Based on the screenplay by Mel Dinelli, this story revolves around Helen Warren, a beautiful...

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Wings of the Navy

as Scat Allen
Released: 1939-02-11

Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both...

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Paid in Full

as Ben, Bartender
Released: 1950-02-15

Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may...

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Valley of the Giants

as 'Fingers' McCarthy
Released: 1938-09-17

A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to...

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Stars Over Broadway

as Offkey Cramer
Released: 1935-11-23

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

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Moonlight Murder

as William
Released: 1936-03-27

An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera...

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Grand Slam

as Philip 'Speed' McCann
Released: 1933-02-22

A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for...

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Private Jones

as 'Greasy' - the Cook
Released: 1933-03-25

After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by...

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Life Begins

as Ringer Banks
Released: 1932-09-10

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The...

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Page Miss Glory

as Ed Olson
Released: 1935-09-07

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant...

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Indianapolis Speedway

as Spuds Connors
Released: 1939-08-05

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession...

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Elmer, the Great

as Healy High-Hips
Released: 1933-04-29

Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr....

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The Great Junction Hotel

as Peeping Tom
Released: 1931-10-26

A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched...

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Marine Raiders

as Sgt. Louis Leary
Released: 1944-07-11

A Marine major (Pat O'Brien) looks out for his captain (Robert Ryan) on Guadalcanal and in...

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Bright Lights

as Fish
Released: 1930-09-21

A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But...

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Her Cardboard Lover

as Chappie Champagne
Released: 1942-07-16

A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.

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Sunday Night at the Trocadero

as Frank McHugh
Released: 1937-10-02

A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh,...

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Going Wild

as 'Ricky' Freeman
Released: 1930-12-21

Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace...

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Traveling Husbands

as Pinkie
Released: 1931-08-15

A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.

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Ever Since Eve

as Mike 'Mabel DeCraven' McGillicuddy
Released: 1937-07-15

Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid...

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Son of a Sailor

as Gaga
Released: 1933-11-29

A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.

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Way Down Cellar

as Constable Seely
Released: 1968-01-07

Three friends find a secret tunnel under the ruins of a church that leads them to the basement...

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The Runaround

as Wally Quayle
Released: 1946-06-04

Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York.

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Devil Dogs of the Air

as Crash Kelly
Released: 1935-02-09

Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.

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The Hot Spot

as Peter Burke
Released: 1931-09-14

In order to capture a murderer, a reporter has his obnoxious brother-in-law confess to the crime.

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Up for Murder

as Collins
Released: 1931-05-26

Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's...

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Three Men on a Horse

as Erwin Trowbridge
Released: 1936-11-21

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.

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Lilly Turner

as David 'Dave' Dixon
Released: 1933-05-13

One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a...

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Freshman Love

as Coach Hammond
Released: 1936-01-18

A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't...

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The Pace That Thrills

as Rocket Anderson
Released: 1952-03-01

Chills and spills in the fast-paced world of motorcycle racing.

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Let’s Be Ritzy

as Bill Damroy Robert
Released: 1934-05-01

Complications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not.

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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

as Self
Released: 1930-08-01

Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a...

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Alex in Wonderland

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1940-03-09

In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks...

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Smarty

as George
Released: 1934-05-19

Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in...

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Happiness Ahead

as Tom
Released: 1934-10-27

Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by...

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Bad Company

as Doc-Henchmen
Released: 1931-10-16

A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney,...

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Snowed Under

as Orlando Rowe
Released: 1936-03-29

Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's...

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6 Day Bike Rider

as Clinton
Released: 1934-10-20

To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six...

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Top Speed

as Tad Jordan
Released: 1930-08-24

An order clerk poses as a millionaire.

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Easy Come, Easy Go

as Carey
Released: 1947-03-07

Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his...

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Convention City

as Will Goodwin
Released: 1933-12-14

Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.

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Merry Wives of Reno

as Al
Released: 1934-04-18

Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.

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The Tougher They Come

as Gig Rafferty
Released: 1950-11-16

Set in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who...

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Little Miss Thoroughbred

as Tod Harrington
Released: 1938-06-04

A young orphan girl wants a small-time gambler to be her father.

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Men of the Sky

as uncredited
Released: 1931-06-20

In the years before World War I, a love affair takes place between an American pilot named Jack...

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Hold Me Tight

as Billy Wade
Released: 1933-05-20

Newly married sweethearts Chuck Evans and Molly Roberts work at Blair's Department Store and...

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College Lovers

as Speed Haskins
Released: 1930-10-05

Romance on a college campus.

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Little Miss Big

as Charlie Bryan
Released: 1946-01-01

A wealthy eccentric women escapes from a mental institution and finds refuge with a financially...

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The Lucy Show

as Mr. Snowden
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's...

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The Defenders

as Henry Schell
First aired: 1961-09-16

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed...

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Studio One

as Nobby Bishop
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Studio One

as Barney
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Studio One

as Horace Potter
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Studio One

as Ben Ames
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Route 66

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-07

Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet...

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The Millionaire

as Charles N. Bradwell
First aired: 1955-01-19

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

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Lancer

as uncredited
First aired: 1968-09-24

Lancer is an American Western series that aired on CBS from September 1968, to May 1970. The...

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Tales of Tomorrow

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-08-03

Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and...

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Armstrong Circle Theatre

as uncredited
First aired: 1950-06-06

Armstrong Circle Theatre is an American anthology drama television series which ran from 1950 to...

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DuPont Show of the Month

as Lefty
First aired: 1957-09-29

DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired...

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Cain's Hundred

as Wilbur Morton
First aired: 1961-09-19

A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top...

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F Troop

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-09-14

F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on...

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Outlaws

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-26

Outlaws is an NBC Western television series, starring Barton MacLane as U.S. marshal Frank...

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Going My Way

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-10-03

Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series

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The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-26

Make way for the reluctant detective. It's Ellery Queen, the suave, debonair and brilliant hero...

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The Bing Crosby Show

as Willie Walters
First aired: 1964-09-14

The Bing Crosby Show is a 28-episode situation comedy television program starring crooner, film...

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The Gulf Playhouse

as uncredited
First aired: 1952-03-10

This live show was seen through the "eye" of the camera. The actors in each episode would talk...

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