Jack Oakie
Jack Oakie (November 12, 1903 – January 23, 1978) was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television.
The Great Dictator
as Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of BacteriaDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid...
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Around the World in Eighty Days
as SS Henrietta CaptainBased on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the...
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Lover Come Back
as J. Paxton MillerJerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each...
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Call of the Wild
as 'Shorty' HoolihanJack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska...
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The Wonderful Country
as Travis HyleHaving fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin...
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Thieves' Highway
as SlobNick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his...
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It Happened Tomorrow
as Uncle Oscar SmithA young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This...
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If I Had a Million
as Private MulliganAn elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to...
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Make Me a Star
as Jack Oakie (uncredited)A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and...
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The Stolen Jools
as Jack OakieFamous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended...
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Alice in Wonderland
as TweedledumIn Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called...
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The Rat Race
as MacAn aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi...
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Young People
as Joe BallantineWendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They...
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Tomahawk
as Sol BeckworthIn 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road...
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Tin Pan Alley
as Harry CalhounSongwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to...
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The Toast of New York
as LukeAfter the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New...
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Million Dollar Legs
as Migg TweenyA small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics...
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Murder at the Vanities
as Jack ElleryShortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's...
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
as Spud MillerTwo-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of...
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When My Baby Smiles at Me
as Bozo EvansBonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer...
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The Wild Party
as AlWild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party...
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The Affairs of Annabel
as Lanny MorganWonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to...
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Super-Sleuth
as Bill MartinA movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve...
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The Texas Rangers
as Henry B. 'Wahoo' JonesTwo down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned...
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The Eagle and the Hawk
as Mike 'Slug' RichardsThe pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental...
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Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
as Self (archive footage)Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first...
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The Merry Monahans
as Pete MonahanThe film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his...
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Something to Shout About
as Larry MartinA press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on...
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Paramount on Parade
as Himself / Master of Ceremonies / Fu Manchu's Victim (Murder Will Out) / Girls Gym Instructor (In a Girls' Gym)This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars,...
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Street Girl
as Joe SpringA homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her...
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On Stage Everybody
as Michael SullivanRadio's miracle show is on the screen.
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Hello, Frisco, Hello
as Dan DaleyIn turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky...
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Collegiate
as Jerry CraigA Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.
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Breakdowns of 1942
as SelfFlubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
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Song of the Islands
as Rusty SmithWith his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on...
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Hitting a New High
as Corny DavisA Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges...
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Annabel Takes a Tour
as Lanny MorganAnnabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a...
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Once in a Lifetime
as George LewisStory of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
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King of Burlesque
as Joe CooneyWarner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on...
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Bowery to Broadway
as Michael O'RourkeTwo Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them...
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Thanks for Everything
as BatesPromoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel...
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Sitting Pretty
as Chick ParkerJack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their...
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That Girl from Paris
as Whammo LonsdaleNikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping...
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Wintertime
as Skip HuttonNora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada....
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Chinatown Nights
as James "Jimmy" Williams, the reporterJoan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang...
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Sweet and Low-Down
as PopsyAfter their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are...
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Madison Square Garden
as Eddie BurkeEddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his...
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The Great American Broadcast
as Chuck HadleyAfter WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she...
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Hitler: The Comedy Years
as Benzini Napaloni (archive footage) (uncredited)A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
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College Rhythm
as Francis J. FinneganThe story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the...
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Dude Ranch
as Jennifer / Vance KilroyChester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the...
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Looking for Trouble
as CaseyJoe and Casey trouble-shoot for the phone company. They try to prove that Joes's girl Ethel's...
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The Sap from Syracuse
as Littleton LooneyEllen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a...
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Close Harmony
as Ben BarneyMarjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes...
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That's the Spirit
as Steve 'Slim' GogartyA vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being...
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Uptown New York
as Eddie DoyleJack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey)...
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Little Men
as William "Willie" DemingJo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a...
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The Social Lion
as Marco PerkinsMarco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy...
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Northwest Stampede
as Mike KirbyIn this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the...
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From Hell to Heaven
as Charlie BayneThe various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a...
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Last of the Buccaneers
as Sgt. DominickSwashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a...
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Shoot the Works
as Nicky NelsonThe story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't...
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Champagne Waltz
as Happy GallagherIn Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of...
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Take It or Leave It
as (archive footage) (uncredited)A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his...
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Sweetie
as Tap-Tap ThompsonChorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to...
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Sky Bride
as Alec DuganBarnstorming pilots Speed Condon, Bill Adams, and Eddie Smith travel the country with their...
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Florida Special
as Bangs CarterA Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers...
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Big Brother
as uncreditedWhen gangster Jimmy Donovan is made guardian of Midge, the 7-year-old brother of his friend Big...
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Too Much Harmony
as Benny DayA singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
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June Moon
as Frederick Martin StevensAn ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.
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College Humor
as Barney ShirrelA college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful...
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Iceland
as Slip RiggsMarine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic...
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Navy Blues
as 'Cake' O'HaraOn a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship...
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-1
as SelfIn the first entry of this series, the show open with a troupe of dancing chorus girls getting a...
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Rise and Shine
as Boley BolenciecwczThe college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking...
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Fight for Your Lady
as Honest "Ham" HamiltonWrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a...
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Dancers in the Dark
as Duke TaylorA bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town....
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Let's Go Native
as Voltaire McGinnisThe company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from...
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Colleen
as Joe CorkMusical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
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The Man I Love
as Lew LaytonWellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen ...
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Sailor Be Good
as Kelsey JonesA Navy boxer (Jack Oakie) meets a dance-hall hostess (Vivienne Osborne) who tries to sober him...
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Kilroy
as Joe KelseyJust discharged from the Marine Corps, Oscar Kilroy arrives in the small town of Wilton...
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The Gang Buster
as Charlie CaseNaïve insurance agent 'Cyclone' Case falls in love with Sylvia Martine, whose father has a...
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Road House
as SamLarry Grayson, jazz age son of permissive parents, drifts from wild parties with his classmates...
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Radio City Revels
as HarryA down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas...
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The Dummy
as Dopey HartThe title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump...
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The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
as Self (archive footage)In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of...
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.
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as B. B. BrownSilent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.
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She Wrote the Book
as Jerry MarloweA plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying...
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His Children's Children
as Minor Role (uncredited)Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old...
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The Fleet's In
as Searchlight DoyleA girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what...
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Touchdown!
as Babe BartonFootball coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.
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Hit the Deck
as BilgeA sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's affections.
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Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
as SelfSeveral members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.
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Sea Legs
as Searchlight DoyleSearchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the...
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Hard to Get
as Marty MartinA dress shop employee falls in love with a millionaire.
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Bonanza
as Thaddeus CadeThe High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...
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Daniel Boone
as Otis CobbDaniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel...
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Studio One
as Frank ReyAn American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...
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This Is Your Life
as SelfThis Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally...
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Target: The Corruptors!
as uncreditedTarget: The Corruptors! is an American crime drama series starring Stephen McNally which aired...
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The New Breed
as Ham TuckerThe New Breed is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from October 3, 1961 to June...
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Breaking Point
as uncreditedBreaking Point is an American medical drama that aired on ABC from September 16, 1963, to April...
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