James C. Morton

Modern Times
as Assembly Line Relief Man (uncredited)A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again...
Movie pageThe Return of Frank James
as Liberty Bartender (uncredited)Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
Movie pageOur Relations
as Bartender at Denker's Beer Garden (uncredited)Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and...
Movie pageSaps at Sea
as uncreditedStan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a...
Movie pageTit for Tat
as The PolicemanStan and Ollie have set up their own electrical appliance store but, unfortunately for them, the...
Movie pageIn Old California
as Red - Sacramento BartenderBoston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss...
Movie pageThe Devil's Brother
as The Timorous WoodchopperTwo wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra...
Movie pageThe Midnight Patrol
as PolicemanNovice policemen Stan and Ollie bungle a burglary investigation.
Movie pageDisorder in the Court
as Court Clerk (uncredited)The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the...
Movie pageJohnny Eager
as Card Player (uncredited)A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Movie pageMy Little Chickadee
as Train Conductor (uncredited)While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a...
Movie pageNaughty Marietta
as Herald (uncredited)In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and...
Movie pageSwanee River
as BartenderSwanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who...
Movie pageYou Can't Cheat an Honest Man
as Judge (uncredited)Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run...
Movie pageThe Boogie Man Will Get You
as Trooper QuincyA young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants...
Movie pageWhen the Daltons Rode
as Ed Pickett - JurorYoung lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the...
Movie pageThe Accusing Finger
as (scene deleted)A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself...
Movie pageThe Fatal Hour
as Policeman ClancyWhen a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime...
Movie pageThe Arizona Kid
as Bartender JoeRoy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to...
Movie pageFollow the Leader
as MickieA kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a...
Movie pageHouse of Mystery
as Englishman (uncredited)Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the...
Movie pageRose of Washington Square
as Speakeasy Bartender (uncredited)Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband...
Movie pageThe Shadow Strikes
as KellyLamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at...
Movie pagePublic Hero Number 1
as Road House Patron (uncredited)G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums...
Movie pageTell No Tales
as Crowd Control Policeman (uncredited)A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could...
Movie pageA Tragedy at Midnight
as Chubby Detective (uncredited)The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to...
Movie pageButch Minds the Baby
as Policeman (uncredited)Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and...
Movie pageMiracles for Sale
as Blackie the ElectricianA maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Movie pageAppointment for Love
as Doorman (uncredited)Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The...
Movie pageUncivil Warriors
as Union General (uncredited)Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers...
Movie pageThe Sitter Downers
as Mr. Bell (uncredited)The stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when their prospective father-in-law refuses...
Movie pageA Doggone Mixup
as Insurance salesmanHarry, who can't resist a bargain, buys a St. Bernard dog.
Movie pageFour Girls in White
as Policeman at Drug StoreYoung Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there....
Movie pageThe Nuisance
as Motorist (uncredited)Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a...
Movie pageKentucky
as BartenderYoung lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky...
Movie pageBad Man of Deadwood
as Store OwnerRoy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
Movie pageColorado
as Stagecoach Station ManagerTrouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut....
Movie pageMurder in Times Square
as PolicemanAn actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
Movie pageMeet Dr. Christian
as City Council MemberThe first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town...
Movie pageLady from Louisiana
as LittlefieldNorthern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime...
Movie pageFrisco Kid
as Vigilante (uncredited)After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him...
Movie pageHold Your Temper
as uncreditedThe day starts out fine for Leon, but as it goes on, things start to deteriorate.
Movie pageSlave Ship
as WaiterAction-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced...
Movie pageThe Lady Escapes
as Doorman (uncredited)A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a...
Movie pageKing of Burlesque
as Jim - the Bartender (uncredited)Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on...
Movie pageWild Geese Calling
as MackIn the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries...
Movie pageThe Iron Claw
as CaseyThe heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a...
Movie pageStablemates
as BartenderA boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a...
Movie pageEarl of Puddlestone
as Officer BranniganWhen Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he...
Movie pageThe Courageous Dr. Christian
as BaileyA doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the...
Movie pageSeptember in the Rain
as Various (voice) (uncredited)The rain is outdoors; the action is indoors, in a grocery store, where the characters on product...
Movie pageNews Is Made at Night
as BartenderNewspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free...
Movie pageStraight, Place and Show
as Bald ManThe Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling...
Movie pagePardon My Scotch
as J.T. WaltonThe Stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that a desperate businessman...
Movie pageBlackmail
as Second Policeman Arresting John (uncredited)A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
Movie pageWe Want Our Mummy
as Prof. Wilson (uncredited)The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rootin-Tootin for which a museum will pay...
Movie pageThree Missing Links
as B.O. Botswaddle (uncredited)The stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. After wrecking the bosses office, they get...
Movie pageWhat Price Pants
as Henchman (uncredited)The vaudeville comedians Smith and Dale star in a clever satire on Prohibition and all its...
Movie pageInternational Settlement
as BartenderIn Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun...
Movie pageMutiny on the Blackhawk
as Ship's CookStory deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny...
Movie pageThe Good Bad Egg
as Horseshoe Man (archive footage) (uncredited)In this Columbia All-Star Comedy short (production number 8438), Joe DeRita is a bachelor...
Movie pageAnother Wild Idea
as MilkmanBetty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray...
Movie pageLillian Russell
as BartenderAlice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Movie pageShare the Wealth
as Mr. GypsemA small town shoe clerk runs for mayor under a "Share the Wealth" platform but finds himself in...
Movie pageLucky Legs
as PatChorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle....
Movie pageBad Man from Red Butte
as BaldyA cowboy arrives in a town, and is immediately mistaken for his twin brother who is wanted for...
Movie pagePublic Cowboy No. 1
as Eustace P. QuackenbushDeputies Gene Autry and Frog go up against modern cattle rustlers. These rustlers use technology...
Movie pageThe Lucky Corner
as PolicemanThe gang help Scotty and his grandfather after an obnoxious lunch counter owner forces them to...
Movie pageA Grocery Clerk's Romance
as Brown - the HusbandFord arranged for lazy Brown to be kidnapped and dynamited by thugs, so that he can move in and...
Movie pageMoving Vanities
as Wife's Uncle (uncredited)Leon Errol moves because of a rent increase.
Movie pageThree Little Sew and Sews
as Admiral H.S. Taylor (uncredited)The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go...
Movie pageDancing on the Ceiling
as Dental PatientA young man follows a pretty girl into her office, which turns out to be a musical dentist...
Movie pageFree, Blonde and 21
as ProprietorStories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a...
Movie pageMama Runs Wild
as AdamsSuburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when...
Movie pageBeginner's Luck
as Piano PlayerSpanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater amateur night.
Movie pageThe Payoff
as Bartender (uncredited)An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked...
Movie pageThe Housekeeper's Daughter
as PolicemanA mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Movie pageBrothers of the West
as Cattle Man's Protective Assoc. ChiefTyler is a range detective whose brother stands accused of robbing a bank and murdering the bank...
Movie pageAlum and Eve
as Policeman (as James Morton)When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she...
Movie pageDanger On Wheels
as Police SergeantDuring a test, a race car using an experimental oil fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. ...
Movie pageO'Shaughnessy's Boy
as Man on Train Who Wants to SleepA circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling...
Movie pageThe Soilers
as Judge J.A. MortonZasu and Thelma are working their way through college by selling magazine subscriptions. Finding...
Movie pageMr. Dynamite
as The Cop in the AlleyA ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
Movie pageJosette
as Bartender (uncredited)Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think...
Movie pageBlack Diamonds
as Joseph Aloysius Stacey (as James Norton)A reporter on a visit to his hometown hears of dangerous conditions at the local coal mine, and...
Movie pageA Lad an' a Lamp
as PolicemanThe gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.
Movie pageSong of the Saddle
as Settler (uncredited)Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to...
Movie pageHot News Margie
as Stadium Policeman (uncredited)Margie is a reporter on a tabloid newspaper. Her assignment is to find out whether there is any...
Movie pageClock Wise
as Joe--JanitorPop's noisy mechanical clock is driving Edgar crazy.
Movie pageMaid in Hollywood
as Grip (uncredited)Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal...
Movie pageA Polo Phony
as uncreditedSalesman Leon Errol joins a polo club to secure an order from a tough-sell member. He manages to...
Movie pageSneak Easily
as Presiding JudgeJuror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
Movie pageThe Nightshirt Bandit
as Dr. PruittA criminology professor sets out to find the "sleepwalking bandit", but when he finally catches...
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