Gene Lockhart

Born: 1891-07-17

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edwin Eugene Lockhart (July 18, 1891 – March 31, 1957) was a Canadian-American character actor, singer, and playwright. He also wrote the lyrics to a number of popular songs. He became a United States citizen in 1939. Born in London, Ontario, the son of John Coats Lockhart and Ellen Mary (née Delaney) Lockhart, he made his professional debut at the age of six when he appeared with the Kilties Band of Canada. He later appeared in sketches with Beatrice Lillie. Lockhart is mostly remembered for his film work. He made his film debut in the 1922 version of Smilin' Through, as the Rector, but did not make his sound debut until 1934 in the film By Your Leave, where he played the playboy Skeets. Lockhart subsequently appeared in more than 300 motion pictures. He often played villains, including a role as the treacherous informant Regis in Algiers, the American remake of Pepe le Moko, which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He also played the suspicious Georges de la Trémouille, the Dauphin's chief counselor, in the famous 1948 film Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman. He had a great succession of "good guy" supporting roles including Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (1938) and the judge in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).


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Miracle on 34th Street

as Judge Henry X. Harper
Released: 1947-06-04

Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow...

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A Christmas Carol

as Bob Cratchit
Released: 1938-12-16

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own...

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Going My Way

as Ted Haines Snr.
Released: 1944-01-01

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

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His Girl Friday

as Sheriff Hartwell
Released: 1940-01-18

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s...

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They Died with Their Boots On

as Samuel Bacon, Esq.
Released: 1941-11-20

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his...

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Meet John Doe

as Mayor Lovett
Released: 1941-03-14

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe,"...

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Joan of Arc

as Georges de la Trémouille, the King's Chief Counsellor
Released: 1948-12-22

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War...

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Leave Her to Heaven

as Dr. Saunders
Released: 1945-12-25

A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous...

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Hangmen Also Die!

as Emil Czaka
Released: 1943-04-15

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot,...

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Carousel

as Starkeeper / Dr. Selden
Released: 1956-02-16

Billy Bigelow has been dead for 15 years. Now outside the pearly gates, he long ago waived his...

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The Strange Woman

as Isaiah Poster
Released: 1946-10-25

In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce,...

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All That Money Can Buy

as Squire Slossum
Released: 1941-10-17

Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr....

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Northern Pursuit

as Ernst Willis
Released: 1943-11-07

Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later...

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The Gorgeous Hussy

as Maj. William O'Neal
Released: 1936-08-28

It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that...

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The Sea Wolf

as Dr. Prescott
Released: 1941-03-21

Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.

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World for Ransom

as Alexis Pederas
Released: 1954-01-31

In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime...

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Edison, the Man

as Mr. Taggart
Released: 1940-05-10

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story...

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Crime and Punishment

as Lushin
Released: 1935-11-22

A man is haunted by a murder he's committed.

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A Scandal in Paris

as Prefect of Police Richet
Released: 1946-07-19

A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.

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Algiers

as Regis
Released: 1938-01-16

Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a...

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The Inspector General

as The Mayor
Released: 1949-12-31

An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up...

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Madame Curie

as Bit Part (uncredited)
Released: 1943-12-16

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women...

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Madame Bovary

as J. Homais
Released: 1949-08-25

A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction...

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A Dispatch from Reuters

as Otto Bauer
Released: 1940-10-19

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news...

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Abe Lincoln in Illinois

as Stephen Douglas
Released: 1940-02-22

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham...

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The House on 92nd Street

as Charles Ogden Roper
Released: 1945-09-10

The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.

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Juke Girl

as Henry Madden
Released: 1942-05-30

During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess...

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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

as Bill Hawthorne
Released: 1956-04-12

Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a...

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Francis Covers the Big Town

as Tom Henderson
Released: 1953-06-10

A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.

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Forever and a Day

as Cobblewick
Released: 1943-01-21

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the...

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Action in Arabia

as Josef Danesco
Released: 1944-02-18

Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for...

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Something to Sing About

as Bennett O. 'B.O.' Regan
Released: 1937-09-30

James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a...

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The Devil Is a Sissy

as Mr. Jim Murphy
Released: 1936-09-18

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his...

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Of Human Hearts

as Quid
Released: 1938-02-11

This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil...

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Blondie

as C.P. Hazlip
Released: 1938-11-30

Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy...

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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

as Thomas Sanders
Released: 1939-04-04

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and...

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Red Light

as Warni Hazard
Released: 1949-09-30

Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at...

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By Your Leave

as Skeets
Released: 1934-11-09

A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.

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Mission to Moscow

as Viatcheslav Molotov
Released: 1943-04-29

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns...

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Men Are Such Fools

as Bill Dalton
Released: 1938-06-15

Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she...

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I, Jane Doe

as Arnold Matson
Released: 1948-05-25

While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl...

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Riding High

as J.P. Chase
Released: 1950-04-12

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win...

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Androcles and the Lion

as Menagerie Keeper
Released: 1952-12-01

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian...

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Steel Against the Sky

as John Powers
Released: 1941-12-13

Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.

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The Vanishing American

as Blucher
Released: 1955-11-17

A woman arrives in New Mexico to claim property she's inherited and receives an education in the...

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Cynthia

as Dr. Fred I. Jannings
Released: 1947-08-29

Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.

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The Garden Murder Case

as Edgar Lowe Hammle
Released: 1936-02-21

Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things...

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Our Leading Citizen

as J.T. Tapley
Released: 1939-08-23

Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm...

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Billy the Kid

as Dan Hickey
Released: 1941-05-30

Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended...

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Rhubarb

as Thaddeus J. Banner
Released: 1951-08-29

Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb....

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We Who Are Young

as C.B. Beamis
Released: 1940-07-19

A man violates company policy by getting married.

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International Lady

as Sidney Grenner
Released: 1941-10-16

Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and...

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Breakdowns of 1936

as Self
Released: 1936-12-30

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.

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That Wonderful Urge

as Judge Parker
Released: 1948-11-20

When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an...

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Ingrid Bergman Remembered

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1996-04-06

Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time,...

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Hoodlum Empire

as Sen. Tower
Released: 1952-04-15

It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to...

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Brides Are Like That

as John Robinson
Released: 1936-04-18

Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that...

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Face to Face

as Archbold
Released: 1952-11-01

Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed...

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Dr. Kildare Goes Home

as George Winslow
Released: 1940-09-06

A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.

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The Desert Song

as Pere FanFan
Released: 1943-12-17

Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap...

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Sinners in Paradise

as Senator John P. Corey
Released: 1938-05-19

The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr....

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Sweethearts

as Augustus
Released: 1938-12-30

The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from...

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Blackmail

as William 'Bill' Ramey
Released: 1939-09-08

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

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Tell No Tales

as Arno
Released: 1939-06-12

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could...

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Geronimo

as Gillespie
Released: 1939-11-26

The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a...

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Breakdowns of 1942

as Self
Released: 1942-12-31

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.

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You Can't Escape Forever

as Carl Robelink
Released: 1942-10-10

A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime...

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Apache War Smoke

as Cyril R. Snowden
Released: 1952-09-25

An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot...

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Wedding Present

as Archduke Gustav Ernest
Released: 1936-10-09

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically...

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The Gay Bride

as Jim Smiley (uncredited)
Released: 1934-12-14

Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life...

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Down to the Sea in Ships

as Andrew L. Bush
Released: 1949-02-15

During a whaling expedition in the late 1800's, the aging Captain Bering Joy (Lionel Barrymore)...

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Jeanne Eagels

as Equity Board President
Released: 1957-08-02

Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.

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One Foot in Heaven

as Preston Thurston
Released: 1941-11-01

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

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Mama Steps Out

as Mr. Sims
Released: 1937-02-05

A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty...

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Earthworm Tractors

as George Healey
Released: 1936-07-24

A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.

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Bonzo Goes to College

as Clarence B. Gateson
Released: 1952-09-01

When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to...

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Her Husband's Affairs

as Peter Winterbottom
Released: 1947-11-12

Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets...

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Captain Hurricane

as Capt. Jeremiah Taylor
Released: 1935-03-01

Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature,...

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Star of Midnight

as Horatio Swayne
Released: 1935-04-19

When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a...

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I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

as Jeff Brock
Released: 1951-02-17

A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in...

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The Lady Wants Mink

as Mr. Heggie
Released: 1953-03-29

A woman raises mink to get the coat she's always wanted.

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Breakdowns of 1949

as Self
Released: 1949-12-31

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1949.

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The Foxes of Harrow

as Viscount Henri D'Arceneaux
Released: 1947-09-24

An Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New...

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Man from Frisco

as Joel Kennedy
Released: 1944-06-15

Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding....

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Apartment for Peggy

as Prof. Edward Bell
Released: 1948-09-30

Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is...

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Bridal Suite

as Cornelius McGill
Released: 1939-05-26

A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.

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The Gay Sisters

as Mr. Herschell Gibbon
Released: 1942-08-01

The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.

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That's the Spirit

as Jasper Cawthorne
Released: 1945-06-01

A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being...

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Keeping Company

as Mr. Hellman
Released: 1940-12-27

Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes...

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Times Square Playboy

as P.H. "Ben", "Pig Head" Bancroft
Released: 1936-05-09

A stock broker's small-town best friend thinks the bride-to-be and her family are gold-diggers...

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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

as Saxon
Released: 1947-01-04

In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female...

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Smilin' Through

as Village Rector
Released: 1922-02-13

The story is essentially the same as the popular Jane Cowl play, with Talmadge in the dual role...

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I've Been Around

as Sammy Ames
Released: 1935-03-05

Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.

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Find the Blackmailer

as John Michael Rhodes
Released: 1943-11-06

A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems...

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The Inside Story

as Horace Taylor
Released: 1948-03-14

A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the...

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Listen, Darling

as Arthur Drubbs
Released: 1938-10-21

To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know...

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Confidentially Connie

as Dean Edward E. Magruder
Released: 1953-03-12

Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his...

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The Bells of Cockaigne

as Pat
Released: 1953-11-17

An old warehouse worker dreams of saving enough money to return to his native Ireland, but it...

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South of Pago Pago

as Lindsay
Released: 1940-07-19

Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune...

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Mind Your Own Business

as Bottles
Released: 1936-12-18

Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends"...

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The Lady from Texas

as Judge George Jeffers
Released: 1951-09-01

An eccentric Civil War widow is accused of being insane.

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Career Woman

as Uncle Billy Burly
Released: 1936-12-18

A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and...

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Honeymoon

as Consul Prescott
Released: 1947-05-17

A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.

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A Girl in Every Port

as Garvey
Released: 1952-02-13

After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the...

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The Big Hangover

as Charles Parkford
Released: 1950-05-26

A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is...

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Hotel Imperial

as Elias
Released: 1939-05-11

It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and...

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Breakdowns of 1941

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1941-11-14

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.

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Meet the Girls

as Homer Watson
Released: 1938-10-06

Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must...

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Down Among the Sheltering Palms

as Rev. Paul Edgett
Released: 1953-03-01

War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely...

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Meet Me on Broadway

as John Whittaker
Released: 1946-01-26

Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a...

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Penrod's Double Trouble

as Mr. Schofield
Released: 1938-07-23

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an...

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The Backbone of America

as Uncle Cedric
Released: 1953-12-29

An account executive tries to find the perfect American family to use in a forthcoming...

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Too Many Wives

as Winfield Jackson
Released: 1937-04-09

An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.

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Thunder in the Night

as Gabor
Released: 1935-09-16

Officer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet....

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Storm Over the Andes

as Cracker
Released: 1935-04-01

A war between Bolivia and Paraguay is the setting for the stories of flyers involved with both...

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Paul Revere, Jr.

as Miles Standish
Released: 1933-10-07

A drunken fool by the name of Paul Revere Wilson (or Williams or something) drinks too much and...

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Come Closer, Folks

as Elmer Woods
Released: 1936-11-07

A fast-talking pitchman working the con-games on the streets, works himself up into an executive...

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The First Baby

as Mr. Ellis
Released: 1936-04-02

When a couple become parents for the first time, they discover grandmothers can be almost as...

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Robert Montgomery Presents

as uncredited
First aired: 1950-01-30

Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC...

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Climax!

as Henry Anderson
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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The 20th Century Fox Hour

as uncredited
First aired: 1955-10-05

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States...

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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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Telephone Time

as uncredited
First aired: 1956-04-08

Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from...

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Lights Out

as uncredited
First aired: 1949-07-19

Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Milton Hershey
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Alfred Renell
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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His Honor, Homer Bell

as Homer Bell
First aired: 1955-02-24

Homer Bell, an elected judge/practicing attorney and widower, looks after his orphaned niece...

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