John Davidson
John Davidson (25 December 1886 – 16 January 1968) was an American film actor. He appeared in 148 films between 1915 and 1963. He was born in New York, New York and died in Los Angeles, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Davidson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Great Dictator
as Hospital Superintendent (uncredited)Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid...
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Grand Hotel
as Hotel Manager (uncredited)Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
as Extra (uncredited)Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the...
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All That Heaven Allows
as Man (uncredited)Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love...
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A Letter to Three Wives
as John, First WaiterA letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is...
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The Scarlet Empress
as uncreditedDuring the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine...
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People Will Talk
as Faculty Board Member (uncredited)Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of...
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Dinner at Eight
as Mr. HatfieldAn ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband,...
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A Gathering of Eagles
as uncreditedRock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52...
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Saps at Sea
as uncreditedStan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a...
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The Devil Bat
as Prof. Percival Garland RainesDr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton,...
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Shock
as Mr. EdwardsIn this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder,...
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Jewel Robbery
as Robbery Accomplice (uncredited)A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of...
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Captain America
as GruberSuperhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who...
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We're Not Married!
as Best Man at Wedding (uncredited)A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years...
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The Luck of the Irish
as Reporter (uncredited)Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun...
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning
as HakimA Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered...
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
as Prince SuleidMr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of...
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The Last Days of Pompeii
as Phoebus (uncredited)In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator,...
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Charlie Chan in Egypt
as Chemist Daoud AtrashWhile investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers...
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One Touch of Venus
as Customer (uncredited)A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.
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The Sword of Monte Cristo
as ArtistIn 1858 France, Emperor Louis Napoleon sends Captain Renault of the Royal Dragoons, Minister La...
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Turnabout
as Minor Role (uncredited)Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants...
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Stand Up and Cheer!
as Blue Nose Hour Radio Announcer (voice)President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in...
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You're My Everything
as Headwaiter (uncredited)In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes...
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Circumstantial Evidence
as LawyerA man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer...
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Arsène Lupin
as Gourney-Martin's ButlerA charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he...
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Wilson
as Princeton Team Doctor (uncredited)The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his...
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Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
as Carl Karzoff / Kurt KarzoffTo solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the...
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Singapore Woman
as (uncredited)A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
as Gumba, Bird SellerThe invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland...
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Slattery's Hurricane
as Maitre D' (uncredited)A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his...
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Dancing in the Dark
as Board MemberEmery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit...
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The Thirteenth Chair
as Edward 'Ned' WalesAlthough his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap...
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Murder in Trinidad
as Gookol MoahAuthor/explorer John W. Vandercook conceived the character of Bertram Lynch as an investigator...
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The Rescue
as HassimThe English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he...
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
as LuciferDick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
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A Shot in the Dark
as Professor BrandAn amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college.
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The Time, the Place and the Girl
as Pete WardA musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose...
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A Stranger in My Arms
as Man (uncredited)An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.
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King of the Royal Mounted
as SheltonThe Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile...
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The Call of the Savage
as Prince SamuTwo competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
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Miracles for Sale
as Weird Voice (voice)A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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The Devil's in Love
as Kasim-NativeThe French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a...
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Bombay Mail
as R. XavierIn India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta...
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Under Two Flags
as Sheik Ben Ali HammedOn the run from punishment for a crime committed by his brother, Bertie Cecil (alias Lewis...
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Live, Love and Learn
as Mr. Wingate (uncredited)A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get...
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Perils of Pauline
as Dr. BashanA famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has...
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The Tiger's Cub
as Lone WolfQueen of the serials Pearl White gets herself into plenty of trouble up Klondike way as a young...
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The Moonstone
as YandooA valuable gem from India is stolen in an old dark mansion and it is up to Scotland Yard...
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Saturday Night
as The Count Demitry ScardoffThough betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to...
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Monsieur Beaucaire
as RichelieuThe Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do...
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The Fighting Devil Dogs
as Lin WingTwo marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
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The Life of the Party
as Mr. SmithTwo female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.
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Storm Over Bengal
as Aide to Ramin KhanThis being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed...
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Mummy's Boys
as Cafe Manager in CairoWheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology...
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Jungle Menace
as Doctor ColemanMystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.
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The Purple Monster Strikes
as Emperor of MarsA Martian invader crashes his spaceship conveniently close to the workshop of a scientist who is...
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The Bronze Bell
as Salig SinghIn the 1850s, a young prince in India promises his dying father he will lead a revolt against...
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Queen of the Night Clubs
as Don HollandIrked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of...
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Hold That Girl
as Ackroyd"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her...
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Fool's Paradise
as Prince Talaat-NiIn a Mexican border town Arthur befriends cantina girl Poll. She falls for him but he still...
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Call of the Jungle
as HarleyA beautiful white girl resident of Ta'Pu, Tana, is determined to clear Harley, who is suspected...
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Shame
as Cabaret DancerJohn Grey enlists when the Spanish-American War begins, not knowing that his sweetheart Mary is...
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Hollywood Mystery
as Siegfried SonoffA PR man for a low-budget movie studio comes up with what he believes is the perfect gimmick--to...
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Skin Deep
as Blackie CulverSkin Deep is a 1929 American talking drama film directed by Ray Enright and starring Monte Blue....
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Romeo and Juliet
as ParisShakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud...
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6 Hours to Live
as KellnerA murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only...
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The Brand of Cowardice
as NavareteCyril Hamilton is a chicken-hearted easterner who heads west. He makes up for his past misdeeds...
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Kid Gloves
as StoneWhen a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between...
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The Wild Girl
as Undetermined RoleA dying stranger abandons a baby girl in a gypsy camp, with a note explaining that on her...
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The Wall Between
as Capt. BurkettJohn Kendall was brought up in a wealthy family, but when his father loses the family fortune...
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Savage Fury
as Prince Samu (archive footage)Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.
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Secret Service In Darkest Africa
as SheikAn American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
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Docks of San Francisco
as VanceBarbary Coast, San Francisco. The gangster moll Belle gets deeply entangled with gangsters led...
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The Stronger Vow
as José de Co0rdovaDuring the Easter Carnival, Dolores de Cordova flirts with Juan Estudillo, not knowing that he...
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The Awakening
as Horace ChapronAbandoned on the church steps at birth Jacques Revilly is a pariah in his small hamlet finally...
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The Ruse
as John Folsom"Bat" Peters, reformed gunfighter turned prospector, travels to Chicago to collect on a business...
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No Woman Knows
as Theodore BrandeisIn Winnebago, Wisconsin, a Jewish family comprising Molly and Ferdinand Brandeis and their two...
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Cheated Love
as Mischa GrossmanSonya Schnoema, a Jewish girl, comes to the United States as an immigrant and works in her...
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His Children's Children
as FlorianFollows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old...
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The Great Lover
as SoninoEthel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera...
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Hearts and Swords
as Lieutenant SalzaDonna Gonzales has a daughter, Rosa, and a son, Maxim. Maxim is fighting in the Rebel cause, his...
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The Power of Decision
as Wood HardingArtist model Margot uses her “Power of Decision” to choose between two men she loves, after much...
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Through the Toils
as Walter TresslerAuthor Noel Graham goes to the little village of Mondon, where his ancestors lived, for solitude...
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Ramshackle House
as Ernest RieverDon Counsel, a New Yorker who is traveling through southern Florida, is being framed by Ernest...
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The Wonderful Adventure
as M. CheivasseWealthy New York contractor Wilton Demarest falls victim to the wiles of beautiful adventuress...
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The Beautiful Lie
as Howard HayesBelieved to be a lost film. A woman's reputation is sullied, and then recovers. Based on the...
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