Granville Bates
Granville Bates (January 7, 1882 - July 8, 1940) was an American actor.
The Mortal Storm
as Professor BergThe Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s....
Movie pageMake Way for Tomorrow
as Mr. Hunter (uncredited)At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed....
Movie pageBrother Orchid
as Pattonsville SuperintendentWhen retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill...
Movie pageMy Favorite Wife
as Judge Walter BrysonYears after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of...
Movie pageOf Mice and Men
as CarlsonAn intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's...
Movie pageI Live My Life
as Yacht Captain (Uncredited)A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
Movie pageGreen Light
as SheriffA brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a...
Movie pageThe Plainsman
as Van EllynWild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.
Movie pageThey Won't Forget
as Detective PindarA southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate...
Movie pageMr. Chump
as Abner SpragueA naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.
Movie pageThe Great O'Malley
as Jake - Bar Proprietor (uncredited)His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter...
Movie pageWells Fargo
as Bradford, bankerIn the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company,...
Movie pageThe Great Man Votes
as The MayorIn 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from...
Movie pageEternally Yours
as Ship CaptainAnita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say...
Movie pageFlowing Gold
as Charles HammondIn the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes...
Movie pagePoppy
as Mayor FarnsworthCarny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the...
Movie pageWaikiki Wedding
as Uncle HermanTony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P....
Movie pageIt Happened in Hollywood
as Sam BennettA silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Movie pageHard to Get
as Judge HarknessWhen spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by...
Movie pageBlackwell's Island
as Stuart GrangerA reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Movie pageMountain Justice
as Judge CrawleyStalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid...
Movie pageA Man to Remember
as George SykesOn the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
Movie pageMannequin
as Mr. Gebhart (Uncredited)Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only...
Movie pageFast and Furious
as Chief MillerJoel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York,...
Movie pageNancy Steele Is Missing!
as FlahertyAfter being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She...
Movie pageMillionaire Playboy
as StaffordA young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.
Movie pageNext Time I Marry
as H.E. CrockerHeiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain...
Movie pageThe Good Old Soak
as SamA small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
Movie pageMidnight
as Richard McGrathJury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His...
Movie pageBrother Rat and a Baby
as First DoctorThree comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as...
Movie pageWoman Wanted
as CaseyJust after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into...
Movie pageGarden of the Moon
as Angus McGillicuddyDon Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by...
Movie pageThe Shining Hour
as Second Man on Plane (uncredited)A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
Movie pageWhen's Your Birthday?
as Judge O'DaySome shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict...
Movie pageIndianapolis Speedway
as Mr. GreerA champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession...
Movie pageHere Comes Trouble
as uncreditedDonovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a...
Movie pageWomen in Hiding
as Dr. BatesIn this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of...
Movie pageLarceny on the Air
as Prof. Rexford SterlingA doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose...
Movie pageThe Smiling Lieutenant
as Bill Collector (uncredited)An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep...
Movie pageThe Jury's Secret
as Judge PendegastA reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her...
Movie pageEspionage Agent
as Phineas T. O'GradyWhen Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the...
Movie pageBeloved Enemy
as RyanIn 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace...
Movie pageWoman in the Dark
as Sheriff Fred GrantA recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back...
Movie pageNaughty But Nice
as Judge Kennith B. Walters, Superior CourtDonald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and...
Movie pageImportant News
as Sheriff (uncredited)In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's...
Movie pagePrivate Affairs
as Judge Samuel Elmer HamiltonA girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up...
Movie pageYoung Dr. Kildare
as Harry Cook (uncredited)A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a...
Movie pageGo Chase Yourself
as HallidayWhen a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup...
Movie pageCharlie McCarthy, Detective
as Judge BlackScotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter...
Movie pageWings Over Honolulu
as Grocery ClerkA Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
Movie pageChatterbox
as Philip Greene Sr.Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama...
Movie pageJealousy
as LawyerYvonne, proprietor of a Paris gown shop, marries Pierre, a poor artist, concealing from him an...
Movie pageCowboy from Brooklyn
as Pop HardyA singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
Movie pageHonor Among Lovers
as ClarkJerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character...
Movie pageThe Perfect Specimen
as Hooker - Garage OwnerRaised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford...
Movie pageYouth Takes a Fling
as Mr. JuddMcCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves...
Movie pageLet's Get Married
as Hank KeithLet's Get Married is a 1937 American comedy film starring Ida Lupino, who plays the daughter of...
Movie pageDrunk Driving
as Mr. Jenks (uncredited)In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks...
Movie pageThe Sap from Syracuse
as Sidney NycrossEllen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a...
Movie pageThe Affairs of Annabel
as Mr. FletcherWonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to...
Movie pageBack in Circulation
as Dr. EvansMorning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival...
Movie page13 Hours by Air
as Pop AndrewsWomanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to...
Movie pageThe Wiser Sex
as City EditorA young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been...
Movie pageRomance on the Run
as PhelpsA (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets...
Movie pageUnder Suspicion
as K.Y. MitchellJack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his...
Movie pagePride of the Blue Grass
as Col. Robert GrinerA young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.
Movie pageSweepstakes Winner
as Pop ReynoldsA scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes...
Movie pageTwelve Crowded Hours
as James McEwenAn ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
Movie pageO'Shaughnessy's Boy
as DoctorA circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling...
Movie pageMen Against the Sky
as Mr. BurdettA draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to...
Movie pageTimes Square Playboy
as Mort CalhounA stock broker's small-town best friend thinks the bride-to-be and her family are gold-diggers...
Movie pageThe Boss Didn't Say Good Morning
as Mr. BossCarey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all...
Movie pagePursuit
as Auto Camp Manager"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of...
Movie pageThe Captain's Kid
as Sheriff PengastIn this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the...
Movie pageAlibi Racket
as HopkinsHow police interrogation cracks the "airtight" alibi of a criminal.
Movie pageYoung Mother Hubbard
as JamesForced by the death of her mother to care for her three brothers and sisters, little Mona...
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