Matt McHugh

Born: 1894-01-22

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Matthew O. McHugh (January 22, 1894 – February 22, 1971) was an American film actor who appeared in more than 200 films between 1931 and 1955, primarily in small cameo parts. McHugh came from a theatrical family. His parents ran a stock theatre company and, as a young child, he performed on stage. His brother, Frank, who went on to become part of the Warner Bros. stock company in the 1930s and 1940s, and sister Kitty performed an act with him by the time he was fourteen years old, but the family quit the stage around 1930. His brother Ed became an agent in New York. Matt made his Broadway debut in Elmer Rice's Street Scene in 1929, along with his brother Ed, and also appeared in Swing Your Lady in 1936. Despite his actual origins, McHugh usually performed his roles with a Brooklyn accent, and was often cast as characters explicitly from Brooklyn. In Star Spangled Rhythm (1941), his one scene is a protracted monologue during the climactic "Old Glory" sequence, in which McHugh plays a character who literally embodies the spirit of Brooklyn.


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Freaks

as Rollo Brother
Released: 1932-02-12

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his...

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

as Reporter (uncredited)
Released: 1939-10-19

Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United...

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Holiday

as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: 1938-05-26

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton,...

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The Bells of St. Mary's

as Sporting Goods Salesman (uncredited)
Released: 1945-12-27

Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation....

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The Blue Dahlia

as Bartender at Gus' (uncredited)
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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The Pride of the Yankees

as Strength Machine Operator (uncredited)
Released: 1942-07-14

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

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My Favorite Brunette

as Third Man on Death Row (uncredited)
Released: 1947-03-19

Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private...

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They Drive by Night

as Repairman (uncredited)
Released: 1940-07-26

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small...

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Phantom Lady

as Al Alp - Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: 1944-01-28

A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.

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The Devil's Brother

as The Prospective Groom
Released: 1933-05-05

Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra...

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Dancing Lady

as Marcia's Agent (uncredited)
Released: 1933-11-24

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton,...

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Barbary Coast

as Broncho
Released: 1935-10-13

Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette...

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Navy Blue and Gold

as Heckler
Released: 1937-11-19

Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.

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Home Town Story

as Waiter (uncredited)
Released: 1951-05-18

Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the...

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Mr. Skeffington

as Drunk (uncredited)
Released: 1944-05-25

A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her...

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The Devil and Miss Jones

as Sam
Released: 1941-04-11

The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay...

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At the Circus

as Cabbie (uncredited)
Released: 1939-10-20

Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay,...

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They Won't Believe Me

as uncredited
Released: 1947-07-16

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand...

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The Dark Corner

as Milkman (uncredited)
Released: 1946-04-09

Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe...

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Salome, Where She Danced

as Lafe
Released: 1945-04-17

During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after...

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The Woman from Monte Carlo

as Chief Petty Officer Vincent
Released: 1932-01-09

On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night....

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Street Scene

as Vincent Jones
Released: 1931-09-05

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as...

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Taxi!

as Joe Silva (uncredited)
Released: 1931-12-29

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling...

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If You Could Only Cook

as Pete
Released: 1935-12-30

An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.

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Nocturne

as Coffee Attendant
Released: 1946-10-29

In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest...

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Party Wire

as Bert West
Released: 1935-04-27

When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her...

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To Mary - with Love

as Taxi Driver
Released: 1936-08-01

Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes...

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The Secret of Dr. Kildare

as Messenger's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: 1939-11-24

Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.

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Primrose Path

as Drunk Leaving Bluebell (uncredited)
Released: 1940-03-22

Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken...

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An Innocent Affair

as Ted Burke
Released: 1948-10-15

Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his...

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That Certain Age

as Soda Jerk (uncredited)
Released: 1938-10-06

Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss,...

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Anything Goes

as Detective
Released: 1936-01-24

A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury...

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Lady on a Train

as uncredited
Released: 1945-08-03

While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building....

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The Rage of Paris

as Department Head (uncredited)
Released: 1938-06-09

Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to...

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True to Life

as Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
Released: 1943-12-24

A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he...

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Diamond Jim

as Bartender
Released: 1935-09-01

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

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Mister Dynamite

as Sunshine
Released: 1935-04-22

A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.

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You, the People

as Albert 'Bert' / 'Perky' Perkins
Released: 1940-11-30

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his...

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The West Side Kid

as The Worrier
Released: 1943-08-23

Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her...

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Flight for Freedom

as Mac (uncredited)
Released: 1943-04-14

A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los...

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Deadline for Murder

as Johnny
Released: 1946-06-28

A favor for an old friend leads a Los Angeles gambler (Kent Taylor) into a dangerous search for...

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Exposed

as Johnson
Released: 1938-11-05

A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications...

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20,000 Men a Year

as Baseball Fan
Released: 1939-10-26

Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a...

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Blues in the Night

as St Louis Jail Drunk
Released: 1941-11-15

A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds...

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The Good Fairy

as Moving Man (uncredited)
Released: 1935-02-18

In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie...

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Professor Beware

as Divorced Man on Highway
Released: 1938-07-29

Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to...

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Night of Terror

as Detective Bailey
Released: 1933-04-23

The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion....

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Star Spangled Rhythm

as Man from Brooklyn (uncredited)
Released: 1942-03-05

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his...

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The Girl in 419

as Jim - a Prisoner
Released: 1933-05-26

A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much...

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Whispering Footsteps

as Cy Walsh, Boarder
Released: 1943-12-30

An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.

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And the Angels Sing

as Doorman - 33 Club (uncredited)
Released: 1944-04-25

The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in...

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Hard to Handle

as Joe Goetz (uncredited)
Released: 1933-01-28

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

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Hi Diddle Diddle

as Reporter #2 (uncredited)
Released: 1943-08-02

When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's...

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Two Alone

as Counter Man (uncredited)
Released: 1934-01-26

Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works....

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Tropic Holiday

as Joe
Released: 1938-06-29

A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the...

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The Mad Miss Manton

as Frisco - False Waiter (uncredited)
Released: 1938-10-21

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears,...

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Murder on a Honeymoon

as Madden
Released: 1935-02-22

A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets...

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Sailor's Luck

as Taxi Cab Driver
Released: 1933-03-17

U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She...

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Girl Trouble

as Driver
Released: 1942-10-09

A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.

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The Perfect Snob

as Baggage Man
Released: 1941-12-19

When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging...

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I Take This Woman

as Mike Fescue - Man in Clinic (uncredited)
Released: 1940-02-02

On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's...

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La Conga Nights

as Headwaiter
Released: 1940-05-31

In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man....

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The Glass Key

as Puggy
Released: 1935-06-15

When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes...

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Wings in the Dark

as 1st Mechanic
Released: 1935-02-01

In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely "fly blind" during adverse...

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Miracles for Sale

as 'All Over Town' Bus Driver
Released: 1939-08-10

A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.

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Sailor Beware!

as Dan
Released: 1933-09-15

A pair of sailors are on shore leave - skirt chasing and raising hell. They're targeted and...

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Mannequin

as Mike (Uncredited)
Released: 1938-01-21

Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only...

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The Trouble with Women

as Herman
Released: 1947-06-25

A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A...

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Secret Command

as Curly
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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Tales of Robin Hood

as Tuck's Guard-Friend
Released: 1951-12-21

The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir...

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The Mad Game

as Butts McGhee
Released: 1933-10-27

Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to...

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The Boys from Syracuse

as Bartender
Released: 1940-07-30

The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two...

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Cowboy in Manhattan

as Cab Driver
Released: 1943-05-21

Bob Allen, a struggling songwriter poses as a millionaire cowboy to win Broadway star Babs Lee.

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The Escape

as Pete
Released: 1939-10-05

An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is...

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West Point Widow

as Drunk at Football Game
Released: 1941-06-20

In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant,...

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The Gentleman from Louisiana

as Steve Brodie
Released: 1936-08-14

In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of...

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Broadway Melody of 1938

as Burt (uncredited)
Released: 1937-08-20

Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a...

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No Time To Marry

as Abernathy
Released: 1938-02-05

In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic...

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A Man of Sentiment

as Alex (Willie) Moran - Orderly
Released: 1933-09-15

A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them...

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Shed No Tears

as First Investigating Detective (Uncredited)
Released: 1948-06-09

A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance...

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So This Is Washington

as Stranger in Park Renting 'Rooms'
Released: 1943-08-01

Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think...

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Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!

as Frank the Barber (uncredited)
Released: 1948-03-10

Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his...

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She Loves Me Not

as Andy, the Photographer
Released: 1934-08-31

A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself...

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Three Loves Has Nancy

as uncredited
Released: 1938-09-02

A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically...

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Should Husbands Marry?

as Loud Friend
Released: 1947-11-13

Hugh's loudmouth pal crashes a dinner party Hugh is throwing for his boss.

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Wham-Bam-Slam!

as Dr. Claude A. Quacker (archive footage)
Released: 1955-09-01

Shemp is a sick man with a bad case of nerves. The stooge's friend Claude, a self-taught healer,...

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Arson, Inc.

as Hubbell
Released: 1949-06-24

An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the...

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His Ex Marks the Spot

as Radcliffe - the ex wife's boyfriend
Released: 1940-12-13

Buster's home life is disrupted when his ex-wife and her boyfriend move in.

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Sing and Like it

as Junker - Hood
Released: 1934-04-20

While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put...

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Afraid to Talk

as Joe Skelli
Released: 1932-11-17

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them...

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A Gentleman at Heart

as Joe
Released: 1942-01-16

After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero...

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The Lady from Cheyenne

as Reporter on Train
Released: 1941-04-11

Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the...

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The Prizefighter and the Lady

as Professor's Drinking Buddy (uncredited)
Released: 1933-11-10

An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.

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While New York Sleeps

as Cab Driver
Released: 1938-12-16

Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).

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Chicken Wagon Family

as Joe
Released: 1939-08-10

Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile...

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The Under-Pup

as Soda Jerk
Released: 1939-08-31

A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from...

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The Phantom Rider

as Agent Shorty
Released: 1936-07-06

The Phantom Rider helps Mary Grayson thwart a plot to steal her land.

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The Mark of the Whistler

as Tom, Reporter (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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Vacation in Reno

as Bill Dumont
Released: 1946-12-10

A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a...

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$1,000 a Touchdown

as Brick Benson
Released: 1939-10-04

A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for...

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My Buddy

as Happy
Released: 1944-10-12

A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee....

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The Man in the Trunk

as Detective Murtha
Released: 1942-09-19

The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.

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Quiet Please, Murder

as Taxi Driver
Released: 1943-03-19

A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to...

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Too Many Women

as Spike O'Reilly
Released: 1942-02-27

Thanks to a fib intended to ward off an annoying real estate developer, a young bachelor finds...

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Duke of Chicago

as Terry Shea
Released: 1949-03-15

To save his publishing firm, a prizefighter comes out of retirement in a fixed match.

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The Wet Parade

as Shorty the Bellboy (uncredited)
Released: 1932-03-26

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the...

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Bridal Bail

as Patrolman Gus Brown
Released: 1934-02-09

When a theater offers a free wedding to a couple, confusion reigns.

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From Headquarters

as Man picked up by police wagon (uncredited)
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 Man Who Dared

as Karel
Released: 1933-06-30

An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire...

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Thunder in the Night

as Police Secretary
Released: 1935-09-16

Officer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet....

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The Jones Family in Hollywood

as Charlie
Released: 1939-06-02

Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a...

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Lost in the Stratosphere

as Matthew O'Toole
Released: 1934-11-14

Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging...

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Pardon My Clutch

as Claude Finkle
Released: 1948-02-26

The stooge's friend Claude sells them his old lemon of a car so they can take Shemp, who is sick...

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The Last Trail

as Looney McGann
Released: 1933-08-25

Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely...

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It Happened in Flatbush

as O'Doul
Released: 1942-05-28

A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports...

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Rangers of Fortune

as Horatio Wells
Released: 1940-09-27

Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam...

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The Loud Mouth

as uncredited
Released: 1932-06-16

Del Lord, famous director of the Three Stooges shorts, directed this story of one man in various...

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The Grand Dame

as (uncredited)
Released: 1931-05-02

Peggy is a gangster's moll from New Jersey, living a pampered life in Manhattan with three...

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The Greener Hills

as Taxi Driver
Released: 1939-01-01

An MGM Miniature about an incurable optimist who is always giving up on his job or project to...

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The Country Beyond

as Const. Weller
Released: 1936-04-24

A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.

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So You Won't Squawk

as Louie the Wolf's Henchman
Released: 1941-02-21

Mobster Louie the Wolf sends an unsuspecting handyman (Keaton) to gather up the collection money...

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Sailor's Lady

as Cabby
Released: 1940-07-05

Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby...

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How DOooo You Do

as Deputy McNiel
Released: 1945-12-24

Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a...

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