Kenneth Thomson

Born: 1899-01-06

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Kenneth Thomson (January 7, 1899 – January 26, 1967) was an American character actor active during the silent and early sound film eras. Born in Pittsburgh, Thomson along with his wife Alden Gay were founding members of the Screen Actors Guild. The group was founded after meetings held at the Thomsons' home during 1933. During his brief twelve-year career in front of the camera, he appeared in over 60 films. After appearing in several Broadway plays during the early and mid-1920s, Thomson would make his film debut with a starring role in 1926's Risky Business. Over the next four years, he would appear in over a dozen films, in either starring or featured roles. In 1930 alone he would appear in ten films, half of which were in starring roles, such as Lawful Larceny, which also starred Bebe Daniels and Lowell Sherman (who also directed), and Reno, whose other stars were Ruth Roland and Montagu Love; the other half would see him in featured roles as in A Notorious Affair, starring Billie Dove, Basil Rathbone, and Kay Francis. During the rest of the 1930s, he would appear in numerous films, mostly in either supporting or featured roles, such as The Little Giant (1933), starring Edward G. Robinson and Mary Astor, and Hop-Along Cassidy (1935), starring William Boyd; although he occasionally would have a starring role, as in opposite Harold Lloyd in 1932's Movie Crazy.


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The King of Kings

as Lazarus
Released: 1927-04-19

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In...

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The Broadway Melody

as Jock Warriner (uncredited)
Released: 1929-02-08

The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie...

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From Headquarters

as Gordon Bates
Released: 1933-11-16

When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out...

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The Doorway to Hell

as Captain of Academy
Released: 1930-10-18

A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues...

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By Whose Hand?

as Chambers
Released: 1932-07-06

On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry...

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Show-Business at War

as Self
Released: 1943-05-21

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

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Lawyer Man

as Dr. Frank Gresham
Released: 1932-12-24

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New...

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Thirteen Women

as Mr. Cousins (uncredited)
Released: 1932-09-16

Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive...

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The Hollywood Gad-About

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1934-10-04

A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as...

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The Little Giant

as John Stanley
Released: 1933-05-20

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a...

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White Gold

as Alec Carson
Released: 1927-02-24

A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father's ranch and the old man takes an instant...

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Son of a Sailor

as Williams
Released: 1933-11-29

A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.

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Change of Heart

as Howard Jackson
Released: 1934-05-18

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college...

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Fast Life

as Mr. Williams
Released: 1932-12-16

Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their...

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Lawful Larceny

as Andrew Dorsey
Released: 1930-08-17

When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she...

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Behold My Wife!

as Jim Curson
Released: 1934-12-06

After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy...

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Woman Hungry

as Leonard Temple
Released: 1931-04-04

This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The...

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Say It with Songs

as Arthur Phillips
Released: 1929-08-05

Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur...

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Movie Crazy

as Vance
Released: 1932-09-23

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test...

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Jungle Bride

as John Franklin
Released: 1933-01-09

Four survivors of a ship wreck are stranded on a deserted island, including a woman and the man...

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Sweet Mama

as Joe Palmer
Released: 1930-07-06

A young girl falls in love with a member of a gang of crooks. She determines to bring the rest...

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70,000 Witnesses

as Dr. Collins
Released: 1932-09-09

College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He...

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Female

as Red
Released: 1933-11-11

Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world...

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Man Bait

as Gerald Sanford
Released: 1927-01-18

Madge Dreyer is a sales girl in a large department store whose street-wise past long ago taught...

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The Famous Ferguson Case

as Bob Parks
Released: 1932-04-19

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by...

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Rivals of the Dragon

as uncredited
Released: 1980-01-01

Master Chan (Jeffrey Chan) is a widely respected martial arts teacher who has several skilled...

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Hop-a-long Cassidy

as Jack Anthony
Released: 1935-08-23

An evil ranch foreman tries to provoke a range war by playing two cattlemen against each other...

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Sweethearts on Parade

as Hendricks
Released: 1930-09-12

Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire...

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Many Happy Returns

as Motion Picture Director
Released: 1934-06-08

Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it...

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A Notorious Affair

as Dr. Alan Pomeroy
Released: 1930-04-26

A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.

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Behind the Green Lights

as Charles T. 'Ritzy' Conrad
Released: 1935-03-11

A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked...

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Reno

as Richard Belden
Released: 1930-09-30

A film by George Crone

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In Old Santa Fe

as Matt Korber - alias Mr. Chandler
Released: 1934-11-15

Gangster Chandler and his accomplice Tracy arrive at a dude ranch. Cowboy Kentucky arrives at...

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Cross Streets

as Mort Talbot
Released: 1934-07-05

A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an...

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The Girl from Havana

as William Dane
Released: 1929-09-22

Joan Anders, a girl detective for a jewelers' protective association, poses as a chorus girl in...

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Blackmailer

as Mr. Porter
Released: 1936-07-23

Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.

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Man Wanted

as Fred Ames
Released: 1932-04-23

A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

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The Careless Age

as Owen
Released: 1929-09-15

Directed by John Griffith Wray. With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Carmel Myers, Holmes Herbert,...

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Children of Pleasure

as Rod Peck
Released: 1930-04-26

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing...

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Wild Company

as Joe Hardy
Released: 1930-07-05

The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.

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Risky Business

as Ted Pyncheon
Released: 1926-10-04

A domineering mother sets out to break up the romance and possible marriage of her daughter,...

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Almost Human

as John Livingston
Released: 1927-12-26

John Livingston is a rich mama's-boy, who owns a blooded dog named Paul. Paul meets Maggie Mutt,...

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Murder at Midnight

as Jim Kennedy
Released: 1931-09-01

Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the...

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Jim Hanvey, Detective

as W. B. Elwood
Released: 1937-04-05

Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance...

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Daring Daughters

as Alan Preston
Released: 1933-03-23

A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from...

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Whispering Smith Speaks

as J. Wesley Hunt
Released: 1935-05-15

O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for...

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The Secret Hour

as Joe
Released: 1928-02-04

An Elderly fruit grower sends a photo of his foreman, not himself, to a waitress he wishes to...

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Her Mad Night

as Schuyler Durkin
Released: 1932-10-12

A woman is accused of murdering a man who molested her young daughter.

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The Other Tomorrow

as Nort Larrison (as Kenneth Thompson)
Released: 1930-02-09

The Other Tomorrow, a love-triangle drama, is a lost American Pre-Code film, directed by Lloyd...

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The Veiled Woman

as Dr. Donald Ross
Released: 1929-04-14

A woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her...

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Corporal Kate

as Jack
Released: 1926-12-06

Frequently cited as one of the first war films to feature the female angle, “Corporate Kate” is...

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