Frederick Burton

Born: 1871-10-20


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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

as Senator Dearhorn (uncredited)
Released: 1939-10-19

Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United...

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The Big Trail

as Pa Bascom
Released: 1930-11-01

Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to...

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Jezebel

as First Director (uncredited)
Released: 1938-03-26

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who...

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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

as Southern Prison Official (uncredited)
Released: 1932-11-09

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of...

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Go West

as Johnson
Released: 1940-12-06

Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his...

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Fury

as Daniel Hopkins (uncredited)
Released: 1936-06-05

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to...

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Silver Queen

as Dr. Hartley
Released: 1942-11-14

A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father...

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Hollywood Cavalcade

as Thomas
Released: 1939-10-13

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she...

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Shipmates Forever

as Admiral Graves (uncredited)
Released: 1935-10-12

An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner....

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One Way Passage

as The Doctor
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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The Old Maid

as Mr. Halsey (uncredited)
Released: 1939-08-16

The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.

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One Night of Love

as Howard - Impresario
Released: 1934-07-16

Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic...

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An American Tragedy

as Samuel Griffiths
Released: 1931-08-22

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

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Brigham Young

as Mr. Webb
Released: 1940-09-27

Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to...

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Two Seconds

as Judge
Released: 1932-05-28

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being...

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Confessions of a Nazi Spy

as U.S. District Court Judge
Released: 1939-05-06

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

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Broadway Bad

as Robert North Sr.
Released: 1933-02-24

Showgirl Tony Landers, supported by her friend Flip Daly, fights for the custody of her son...

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Man With Two Lives

as Hobart Bennett
Released: 1942-02-26

A man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair....

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The Woman from Monte Carlo

as President of Courtmartial
Released: 1932-01-09

On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night....

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Before I Hang

as Governor Prentiss
Released: 1940-09-17

A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a...

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Kentucky

as Presiding Officer
Released: 1938-12-30

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky...

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Counsellor at Law

as Crayfield
Released: 1933-12-25

A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.

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Washington Melodrama

as Dean Lawford
Released: 1941-04-17

An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town...

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The Working Man

as Judge Larson
Released: 1933-04-20

A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children...

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Bedside

as Hospital Superintendent
Released: 1934-01-27

Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual...

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Love Birds

as Barbwire
Released: 1934-05-04

ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the...

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King for a Night

as Governor
Released: 1933-12-09

A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.

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Babes on Broadway

as Mr. Morris
Released: 1941-12-31

Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them...

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The All-American

as Mr. Neuchard
Released: 1932-10-01

The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.

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Theodora Goes Wild

as Governor Wyatt
Released: 1936-11-12

The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They...

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Flirtation Walk

as Landacre
Released: 1934-12-01

A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to...

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The Voice of Bugle Ann

as The Warden
Released: 1936-02-15

A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan)...

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Inside Information

as Police Commissioner Fenton
Released: 1939-06-02

A rookie cop and his girlfriend's uncle, a police captain, disagree on the methods that should...

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State's Attorney

as Second Trial Judge
Released: 1932-05-20

Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the...

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The Calling of Dan Matthews

as James B. Strong
Released: 1935-12-10

Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters),...

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Smarty

as Judge (uncredited)
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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Sweepstakes

as Pop Blake
Released: 1931-07-10

A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.

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The Saint in New York

as William Valcross
Released: 1938-05-25

A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar,...

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The Accusing Finger

as The Governor
Released: 1936-11-17

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself...

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Okay, America!

as The President (uncredited)
Released: 1932-09-08

A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.

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Silver on the Sage

as Tom Hamilton
Released: 1939-03-31

Hoppy goes undercover as a gambler from the East when Bar 20 cattle are stolen by unknown...

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Love Is News

as J.D. Jones
Released: 1937-02-26

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she...

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Mummy's Boys

as Professor Edwards
Released: 1936-10-02

Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology...

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Heliotrope

as Heliotrope Harry Hasdock (as Fred Burton)
Released: 1920-11-28

A prison inmate obtains his release from prison in order to rescue his daughter from the...

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Transient Lady

as Major Marshall
Released: 1935-03-04

A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows...

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Golden Harvest

as Judge Goodhue
Released: 1933-09-21

A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest....

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Arizona

as Col. Benham
Released: 1918-12-09

A lost film. An Army lieutenant at a remote post in Arizona tells a young woman that he does not...

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Fireman, Save My Child

as Mr. Platt
Released: 1932-02-20

Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to...

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The Duke Comes Back

as Arnold Corbin
Released: 1937-11-29

After winning the heavyweight championship, boxer Duke Foster (Allan Lane) quits the ring to...

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Cheating Cheaters

as George Brockton
Released: 1919-01-26

Two gangs of crooks, living side-by-side, each mistake the other for a wealthy household and...

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Third Finger, Left Hand

as Mr. Thompson
Released: 1940-10-11

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male...

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No Other Woman

as Anderson
Released: 1933-01-06

A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks....

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Yes or No

as Donald Vane
Released: 1920-06-28

Two wives, one rich, one poor, each find themselves tempted by romantic seducers, and each faces...

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Anna Ascends

as Mr. Fisk
Released: 1922-11-20

While working in Siad Coury’s coffeehouse in a Syrian neighborhood of New York City, Syrian...

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Gangs of Chicago

as uncredited
Released: 1940-05-18

A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends...

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Running Wild

as D.W. Harvey
Released: 1927-06-10

Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After...

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Whistling in the Dark

as Mr. Van Buren (uncredited)
Released: 1933-01-21

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist...

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Flight to Fame

as General Darrow
Released: 1938-10-12

An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.

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Too Busy to Work

as Judge Hardy
Released: 1932-12-02

A hobo searches the countryside for the daughter he lost when his wife left him...

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Junior G-Men of the Air

as Col. Mitchell
Released: 1942-06-30

A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.

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Broadway Broke

as Augustin Daly
Released: 1923-10-26

Nellie Wayne, a retired Broadway actress, has a small dog named "Chum", who is part of a...

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Air Devils

as Conspirator
Released: 1938-05-13

Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.

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Freighters of Destiny

as John Macey
Released: 1931-10-29

A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.

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The Wet Parade

as Major Randolph
Released: 1932-03-26

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the...

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The Night of June 13

as Judge (uncredited)
Released: 1932-09-17

Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow....

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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

as Bishop Bannon
Released: 1939-12-01

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get...

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Anne of Green Gables

as Matthew Cuthbert
Released: 1919-11-23

Anne Shirley, an orphan, is taken into the lives of a generous farmer and his sister. She grows...

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The Man from Dakota

as Campbellite Religious Leader
Released: 1940-02-16

A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.

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The Rejected Woman

as Leyton Carter
Released: 1924-05-04

Diane Duprez falls in love with Leslie in the snows of a Canadian village. And when they are...

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Secret Service

as Gen. Randolph
Released: 1931-11-14

In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be...

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Ruggles of Red Gap

as Cousin Egbert Floud
Released: 1918-02-25

Harry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable...

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Getting Mary Married

as Amos Bussard
Released: 1919-04-19

Early feature from American cinema pioneer Allan Dwan, starring Marion Davies

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The Teeth of the Tiger

as Doctor Varney
Released: 1919-11-02

Living quietly under the assumed name Paul Sernine, reformed gentleman crook Arsene Lupin is...

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The Fear Market

as Jim Carson
Released: 1920-01-25

A woman struggles to overcome a cabal of blackmailers, but learns that the boss of the...

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