Howard Freeman

Born: 1899-12-09

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Howard Freeman (December 9, 1899 – December 11, 1967) was an American stage actor of the early 20th century, and film and television actor of the 1940s through the 1960s. Freeman was born in Helena, Montana, and began working as a stage actor in his 20s. He entered the film industry in 1942, when he played a small uncredited role in Inflation. Despite his late start in film acting, Freeman would build himself a fairly substantial career in that field that would last over twenty-three years. From 1943 onward he worked on a regular basis, sometimes in uncredited roles, but more often than not in small but credited bit or supporting parts. In 1951 he began appearing on numerous television series, which would be his main acting roles for the remainder of his career, lasting into 1965. He retired from film and television acting in 1965, and settled into retirement in New York City, where he was living at the time of his death.


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Scaramouche

as Michael Vanneau
Released: 1952-05-08

In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

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The Killers

as Brentwood Police Chief (uncredited)
Released: 1946-08-30

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the...

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Letter from an Unknown Woman

as Herr Kastner
Released: 1948-04-28

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she...

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The Blue Dahlia

as Corelli
Released: 1946-04-16

Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an...

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Madame Curie

as Prof. Constant (voice) (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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California

as Sen. Creel
Released: 1947-02-21

"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo,...

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The Snake Pit

as Dr. Curtis
Released: 1948-11-04

Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her...

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Abilene Town

as Ed Balder
Released: 1946-01-11

Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two...

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The Turning Point

as Fogel
Released: 1952-07-12

Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop...

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The Long Night

as Sheriff Ned Meade
Released: 1947-05-28

City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows...

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Magic Town

as Nickleby
Released: 1947-10-07

Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of...

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Here Comes the Groom

as Judge
Released: 1951-09-20

Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the...

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Perfect Strangers

as Arthur Timkin
Released: 1950-03-11

Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that...

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The Time of Your Life

as Society Gentleman
Released: 1948-09-03

Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once...

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Million Dollar Mermaid

as Aldrich
Released: 1952-12-04

After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece...

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Dear Brigitte

as Dean Sawyer
Released: 1965-01-08

Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face...

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Hitler's Madman

as Heinrich Himmler
Released: 1943-06-10

In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow...

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Pilot #5

as Hank Durban
Released: 1943-06-24

A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese 'planes daily....

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Girl Crazy

as Governor Tait
Released: 1943-11-26

Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So...

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A Song to Remember

as Friedrich Kalkbrenner
Released: 1945-01-19

Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early...

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Inside Job

as Trent W. Winkle
Released: 1946-06-14

A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster...

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Cry of the City

as Sullivan the Drunk
Released: 1948-09-29

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward,...

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Summer Holiday

as Mr. Peabody
Released: 1948-04-15

Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class...

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Raiders of the Seven Seas

as Mayor Pompaño
Released: 1953-05-27

After staging a mutiny and commandeering his own ship, famed pirate Barbarossa (John Payne)...

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Lost Angel

as Professor Richards
Released: 1943-12-23

Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest...

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The Perfect Marriage

as Peter Haggerty
Released: 1947-01-24

A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.

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Take One False Step

as Dr. Markheim
Released: 1949-08-14

Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's...

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Chicago Deadline

as Hotspur Shaner
Released: 1949-11-03

On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads...

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Slightly Dangerous

as Mr. Quill
Released: 1943-04-01

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents...

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Secret Command

as Max Lessing
Released: 1944-07-30

Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at...

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Double Dynamite

as R.B. Pulsifer Sr.
Released: 1951-12-25

An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.

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Once Upon a Time

as McKenzie (uncredited)
Released: 1944-06-29

Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a...

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House of Horrors

as Hal Ormiston
Released: 1946-03-29

An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity...

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Meet the People

as George Peetwick
Released: 1944-06-01

A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute...

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Mexicana

as Beagle
Released: 1945-11-15

A Mexican crooner tries to put off fans by faking marriage to his American co-star.

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That Night with You

as Wilbur Weedy
Released: 1945-09-28

In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes...

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The Unwritten Code

as Mr. Norris
Released: 1944-10-26

The Unwritten Code is an offbeat, better-than-average Columbia wartime "B" picture. Though Ann...

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Inflation

as Radio Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: 1942-01-01

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

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Carolina Blues

as Tom Gordon
Released: 1944-12-20

When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes.

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The Girl from Manhattan

as Sam Griffin
Released: 1948-10-01

A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find...

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Whistling in Brooklyn

as Steve Conlon
Released: 1943-12-01

Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect...

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Air Raid Wardens

as J.P. Norton
Released: 1943-04-04

Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi...

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Margin for Error

as Otto Horst
Released: 1943-02-10

When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as...

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Remains to Be Seen

as Cecil Clark
Released: 1953-05-15

A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find...

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That Way with Women

as Dr. Harvey
Released: 1947-02-14

A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station.

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Up in Central Park

as Myron Schultz
Released: 1948-07-09

A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political...

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If You Knew Susie

as Mr. Hancock Otis Clinton
Released: 1948-02-07

In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary...

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This Love of Ours

as Dr. Barnes
Released: 1945-11-02

At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist...

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You Came Along

as Drunk
Released: 1945-07-04

War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute...

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The Mark of the Whistler

as M.K. Simmons (uncredited)
Released: 1944-10-09

A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men...

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Rationing

as Cash Riddle
Released: 1944-03-24

A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.

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So Goes My Love

as Willis
Released: 1946-05-01

Country girl Jane Budden goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man....

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My Brother Talks to Horses

as Hector Damson
Released: 1947-02-04

Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with...

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Where Do We Go from Here?

as Kreiger
Released: 1945-05-23

Bill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has...

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Easy Come, Easy Go

as Magistrate
Released: 1947-03-07

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

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Give My Regards to Broadway

as Mr. Waldron
Released: 1948-06-08

A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play...

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Meet Miss Bobby Socks

as Tom Tyler
Released: 1944-12-22

A teenage fan sets out to boost her favorite radio singer's career. Comedy with songs.

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Cross My Heart

as Wallace Brent
Released: 1946-12-18

A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her...

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Cigarette Girl

as B.J. Halstead
Released: 1947-02-13

A young man and woman base their love on lies that eventually manage to come true.

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Arthur Takes Over

as Bert Bixby
Released: 1948-04-07

A young woman must find a way to break the news to her parents and a stuffy suitor that she is...

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Dancing in Manhattan

as George Hartley
Released: 1944-12-14

In this comedy, a garbage truck driver stumbles across $5,000. He decides to use the money for a...

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I'll Tell the World

as Lester Westchester
Released: 1945-06-08

A PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin.

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Cavalcade of America

as William M. 'Boss' Tweed
First aired: 1952-10-01

Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company,...

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Studio One

as uncredited
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 Junius Brutus
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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Thriller

as Jared Leggett
First aired: 1960-09-13

Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-12-24

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

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The Rogues

as Orrin Banes
First aired: 1964-09-13

The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to...

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Johnny Staccato

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-10

Johnny Staccato is an American private detective series which ran for 27 episodes on NBC from...

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