Grant Mitchell

Born: 1874-06-17

Grant Mitchell (born John Grant Mitchell Jr.) was an American stage and screen actor. He is best remembered for his portrayals of fathers, husbands, bank clerks, businessmen, school principals and similar type characters, usually supporting, in films of the 1930s and 1940s. Mitchell, a Yale post graduate at Harvard Law, gave up his law practice to become an actor, making his stage debut at age 27. He appeared in lead roles on Broadway in such plays as "It Pays to Advertise", "The Champion", "The Whole Town's Talking", and "The Baby Cyclone", the last which was specially written for him by George M. Cohan. His screen career took off with the advent of sound (years earlier he had appeared in at least two silent films). He appeared primarily in B films, though from time to time enjoyed being a part of A-quality productions such as Dinner at Eight (1933), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). Grant Mitchell retired from show business in 1948. He died, age 82, in Los Angeles in 1957.


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Arsenic and Old Lace

as Reverend Harper
Released: 1944-09-01

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes...

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The Grapes of Wrath

as Caretaker
Released: 1940-03-15

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm...

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

as Senator MacPherson
Released: 1939-10-19

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

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It Happened on Fifth Avenue

as Al Farrow
Released: 1947-04-17

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house...

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Leave Her to Heaven

as Carlson (uncredited)
Released: 1945-12-25

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

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Dinner at Eight

as Ed Loomis
Released: 1933-12-22

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband,...

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Tobacco Road

as George Payne
Released: 1941-02-20

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their...

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The Man Who Came to Dinner

as Ernest W. Stanley
Released: 1941-12-24

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a...

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If I Had a Million

as Prison Priest (uncredited)
Released: 1932-11-18

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to...

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Conflict

as Dr. Grant
Released: 1945-06-15

Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that...

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Dancing Lady

as Jasper Bradley Sr.
Released: 1933-11-24

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton,...

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The Great Lie

as Joshua Mason
Released: 1941-04-05

After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

as Egeus
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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Larceny, Inc.

as Mr. Aspinwall
Released: 1942-04-24

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they...

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The Life of Emile Zola

as Georges Clemenceau
Released: 1937-09-09

Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.

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Heroes for Sale

as George Gibson
Released: 1933-06-17

Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I...

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Three on a Match

as Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
Released: 1932-10-29

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she...

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Orchestra Wives

as Dr. Ward
Released: 1942-09-04

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her...

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Nothing But the Truth

as Mr. Bishop
Released: 1941-10-10

Gwen Saunders teams up with her uncle's employee, Steve Bennett, in an attempt to double her...

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My Sister Eileen

as Walter Sherwood
Released: 1942-09-24

Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their...

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The Big Parade of Comedy

as Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1964-09-02

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

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The Stranger's Return

as Allen
Released: 1933-07-28

A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she...

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Dixie

as Mr. Mason
Released: 1943-06-23

A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he...

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Wild Boys of the Road

as James Smith
Released: 1933-10-07

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when...

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Gold Diggers of 1935

as Louis Lamson
Released: 1935-03-15

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

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Crime, Inc.

as Wayne Clark
Released: 1945-04-15

A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on...

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Easy to Wed

as Homer Henshaw
Released: 1946-07-25

When a newspaper accuses a wealthy socialite of being a homewrecker, she files a...

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Broadway Gondolier

as E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
Released: 1935-07-27

A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

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New Moon

as Governor of New Orleans
Released: 1940-06-28

A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.

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Piccadilly Jim

as Herbert Pett
Released: 1936-08-14

Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann...

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Big City Blues

as Station Agent
Released: 1932-09-18

An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his...

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No Man of Her Own

as Charlie Vane
Released: 1932-12-30

An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.

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See Here, Private Hargrove

as Uncle George
Released: 1944-03-18

Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about...

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First Lady

as Ellsworth T. Banning
Released: 1937-12-04

A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.

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Men Without Names

as Andrew Webster
Released: 1935-06-29

A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

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The Gay Sisters

as Gilbert Wheeler
Released: 1942-08-01

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

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The Secret of Dr. Kildare

as John Xerxes Archley
Released: 1939-11-24

Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.

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Moonlight Murder

as Paul Adams
Released: 1936-03-27

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

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Parole!

as Marty Crawford
Released: 1936-06-14

Louis Friedlander-directed film

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Women Are Like That

as Mr. Snell
Released: 1938-04-23

Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire...

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And Now Tomorrow

as Uncle Wallace
Released: 1944-11-22

Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum...

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The Famous Ferguson Case

as Martin Collins
Released: 1932-04-19

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by...

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On Borrowed Time

as Mr. Pilbeam
Released: 1939-07-07

Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather...

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Lady Behave!

as Burton Williams
Released: 1937-12-22

It's bad enough that Clarice Kendall Andrews, Paula's irresponsible sister, comes home from...

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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

as John Summers, Luxury's Owner
Released: 1936-04-24

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his...

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It All Came True

as Rene Salmon
Released: 1940-04-06

After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to...

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Gridiron Flash

as Howard Smith
Released: 1934-10-06

A college football team recruits a tough convict.

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Edison, the Man

as Snade
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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Things You Never See on the Screen

as Self
Released: 1935-12-01

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.

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Hell's Kitchen

as Hiram Krispan
Released: 1939-07-08

A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's...

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Guest Wife

as House Detective
Released: 1945-07-27

Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood...

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20,000 Years in Sing Sing

as Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)
Released: 1932-12-24

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward...

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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

as Edgar Holliday
Released: 1943-02-19

A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.

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King for a Night

as Rev. John Williams
Released: 1933-12-09

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

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The Devil Is a Sissy

as Paul Krumpp
Released: 1936-09-18

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

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Her Favorite Patient

as Mr. Pope
Released: 1945-06-22

A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked...

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The Secret Bride

as Willis Martin
Released: 1934-12-22

Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can...

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Music for Madame

as District Attorney Ernest Robinson
Released: 1937-10-08

An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of...

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Hollywood Hotel

as B.L. Faulkin
Released: 1938-01-15

After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall...

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Lilly Turner

as Dr. Hawley
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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Central Airport

as Mr. Blaine
Released: 1933-04-15

Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for...

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One Foot in Heaven

as Clayton Potter
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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Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1961-12-31

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O....

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Step Lively

as Dr. Gibbs
Released: 1944-07-26

Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.

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A Dream Comes True

as Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1935-12-31

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

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The Case of the Howling Dog

as District Attorney Claude Drumm
Released: 1934-09-22

A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for...

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The Penalty

as Judge
Released: 1941-03-13

In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When...

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Watchtower Over Tomorrow

as Passenger with newspaper
Released: 1945-03-29

Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United...

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Next Time We Love

as Michael Jennings
Released: 1936-01-30

A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign...

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The Cat's-Paw

as Silk Hot McGee
Released: 1934-08-07

Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a...

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The Star Witness

as Pa Leeds
Released: 1931-08-22

A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an...

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6,000 Enemies

as Warden Alan Parkhurst
Released: 1939-06-09

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery...

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Castle on the Hudson

as Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)
Released: 1940-02-17

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

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Convention City

as J.B. Honeywell
Released: 1933-12-14

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

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Cairo

as Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
Released: 1942-08-17

Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing...

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Bring on the Girls

as Ralph Neely
Released: 1945-03-30

A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his...

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The Impatient Years

as Hotel Clerk
Released: 1944-09-10

Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him...

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That Certain Age

as Jeweler
Released: 1938-10-06

Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss,...

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1975-08-06

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American...

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Honeymoon

as Congressman Crenshaw
Released: 1947-05-17

A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.

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The Last Gangster

as Warden
Released: 1937-11-12

A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang...

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It's in the Air

as W. R. Gridley
Released: 1935-10-10

Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin...

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Straight from the Heart

as Austin
Released: 1935-03-22

In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to...

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One More Spring

as Henry Sheridan
Released: 1935-02-15

Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living...

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The Garden Murder Case

as District Attorney Markham
Released: 1936-02-21

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

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Footsteps in the Dark

as Wellington Carruthers
Released: 1941-03-08

A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police...

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The Feminine Touch

as Dean Hutchinson
Released: 1941-10-01

A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway...

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Meet the Stewarts

as Mr. Goodwin
Released: 1942-05-21

A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.

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We're Rich Again

as Wilbur Page
Released: 1934-07-13

A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.

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Tomorrow at Seven

as Austin Winters
Released: 1933-06-01

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

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Seven Keys to Baldpate

as Thomas Hayden
Released: 1935-12-13

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the...

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Father Is A Prince

as John W. Bower
Released: 1940-11-18

Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum...

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All by Myself

as J.D. Gibbons
Released: 1943-06-11

Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with...

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He Learned About Women

as Appleby
Released: 1933-03-02

He Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and...

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Traveling Saleslady

as Rufus Twitchell
Released: 1935-03-28

A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of...

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Who Killed Doc Robbin?

as Judge
Released: 1948-04-09

A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways,...

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Reformatory

as Arnold Frayne
Released: 1938-06-20

A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.

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Week-End Marriage

as Doctor
Released: 1932-06-18

In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner.

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Blondie's Holiday

as Samuel Breckenridge
Released: 1947-04-10

Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the...

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We Who Are Young

as Jones
Released: 1940-07-19

A man violates company policy by getting married.

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Her Master's Voice

as Horace J. Twilling
Released: 1936-01-17

Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides...

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When the Lights Go On Again

as Arnold Benson
Released: 1944-10-22

The hometown life of a young soldier suffering from shellshock amnesia is revealed in flashback.

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The Poor Rich

as Tom Hopkins
Released: 1934-02-25

Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at...

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The Corpse Came C.O.D.

as Mitchell Edwards
Released: 1947-06-02

Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and...

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March On, America!

as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1942-06-20

The story of America from the Pilgrims in 1620 to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese....

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In Person

as Judge Thaddeus Parks
Released: 1935-11-22

Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in...

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Twenty Million Sweethearts

as Sharpe
Released: 1934-05-26

Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy...

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I Love That Man

as Dr. Crittenden - Dentist
Released: 1933-07-07

Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way...

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Our Betters

as Thornton Clay
Released: 1933-03-17

Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston realizes her husband has married her...

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A Medal for Benny

as Mayor of Pantera
Released: 1945-04-16

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

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Man to Man

as Barber John Martin Bolton
Released: 1930-12-05

A young man attempts to overcome the memory of his father, who was sent to jail for committing a...

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Saturday's Millions

as Ezra Fowler
Released: 1933-09-30

Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's...

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Skylark

as Frederick Vantine
Released: 1941-11-21

As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always...

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The Monroe Doctrine

as John Quincy Adams
Released: 1939-10-14

The story of President Monroe's response to attempts by Spain to interfere in South America.

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Blondie's Anniversary

as Samuel Breckenbridge
Released: 1947-12-18

Blondie finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood. She assumes that it's a...

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The Show-Off

as Mr. 'Pa'
Released: 1934-03-09

Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. When he loses his job he takes one wearing...

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Redheads on Parade

as Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: 1935-09-07

A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to...

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A Successful Calamity

as Connors
Released: 1932-09-17

Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie'...

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Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus

as Henry Peck
Released: 1938-12-02

Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and...

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My Love Came Back

as Dr. Kobbe
Released: 1940-07-13

Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius...

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One Exciting Adventure

as Fussli
Released: 1934-09-01

One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake...

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The Misleading Lady

as Stephen Weatherbee
Released: 1916-01-03

Helen Steele, who has theatrical aspirations, has been told by Sidney Parker that, owing to her...

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365 Nights in Hollywood

as J. Walter Delmar
Released: 1934-12-11

Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is...

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My American Wife

as Robert Cantillon
Released: 1936-08-06

Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona,...

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Youth Takes a Fling

as Duke
Released: 1938-09-22

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves...

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The Man from M.A.R.S.

as Arthur Wyman
Released: 1922-12-27

An inventor makes contact with Mars via television. The film is notable for using the 3-D...

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The Headleys at Home

as Ernest Headley
Released: 1938-11-01

In this domestic comedy, a social climbing wife inadvertently creates trouble when she insists...

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