Oscar Apfel

Born: 1878-01-16

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oscar C. Apfel (January 17, 1878 – March 21, 1938) was an American film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He appeared in 167 films between 1913 and 1939, and also directed 94 films between 1911 and 1927. Apfel was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After a number of years in commerce, he decided to adopt the stage as a profession. He secured his first professional engagement in 1900, in his hometown. He rose rapidly and soon held a position as director and producer and was at the time noted as being the youngest stage director in America.[1] He spent eleven years on the stage on Broadway then joined the Edison Manufacturing Company. Apfel first directed for Thomas A. Edison, Inc. in 1911–12, where he made the innovative short film The Passer-By (1912). He also did some experimental work at Edison's laboratory in Orange, on the Edison Talking Pictures devices. After many years as a director, he gradually returned to acting. On March 21, 1938, Apfel died in Hollywood from a heart attack.


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The Man Who Played God

as Appleby - the Lip Reader
Released: 1932-02-09

While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royale is...

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The Woman from Monte Carlo

as Dr. Rabeouf
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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Marianne

as Major Russart (uncredited)
Released: 1929-08-24

At the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though...

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Make Me a Star

as Henshaw
Released: 1932-07-01

A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and...

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Manhattan Melodrama

as Speaker of Assembly (uncredited)
Released: 1934-05-04

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law...

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Blondie of the Follies

as Doctor Attending Pa (uncredited)
Released: 1932-09-01

New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When...

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Abraham Lincoln

as Secretary of War Stanton
Released: 1930-11-08

A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining...

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The Old-Fashioned Way

as Mr. Livingston (uncredited)
Released: 1934-07-13

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of...

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Employees' Entrance

as Board of Directors Member #5 (uncredited)
Released: 1933-02-11

Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He...

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The Story of Temple Drake

as District Attorney (uncredited)
Released: 1933-05-06

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’...

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Five Star Final

as Bernard Hinchecliffe
Released: 1931-09-26

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print...

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Shadows of the Orient

as Judge Avery
Released: 1935-07-06

A classic "B" featurette about "smugglin' in Chinamen for $300 a load"

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Hell's Highway

as William Billings
Released: 1932-09-23

A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.

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Hot Saturday

as Mr. Randolph
Released: 1932-10-28

A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an...

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The Toast of New York

as Wallack (uncredited)
Released: 1937-07-22

After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New...

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Call Her Savage

as Doctor Treating Crosby (Uncredited)
Released: 1932-11-24

A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him....

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The Famous Ferguson Case

as Mr. Brooks
Released: 1932-04-19

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

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Sidewalks of New York

as Judge
Released: 1931-09-26

A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young...

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Bordertown

as Judge Rufus Barnswell
Released: 1935-01-23

An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.

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Skyscraper Souls

as Brewster's Associate (uncredited)
Released: 1932-07-16

After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper,...

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Shopworn

as Forbes
Released: 1932-03-25

A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.

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Born to Gamble

as Strickland - Cora's Father (uncredited)
Released: 1935-07-09

A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family.

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Wicked

as Judge Edwin Luther
Released: 1931-10-04

Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber...

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I Dream Too Much

as Cafe Owner (uncredited)
Released: 1935-11-29

Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled...

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The Calling of Dan Matthews

as District Attorney (uncredited)
Released: 1935-12-10

Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters),...

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Inspiration

as M. Vignaud
Released: 1931-01-31

The film features the leading actress Greta Garbo as Yvonne, an artist's model. Other stars...

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Romance in Manhattan

as Judge
Released: 1935-01-11

Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New...

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O'Shaughnessy's Boy

as Attorney
Released: 1935-09-27

A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling...

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The Soldier and the Lady

as Tsar's General (Uncredited)
Released: 1937-04-09

In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles...

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You Said a Mouthful

as Armstrong (uncredited)
Released: 1932-11-18

Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer....

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The Yellow Ticket

as British Embassy Butler
Released: 1931-10-30

A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a...

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Liliom

as Stefen Kadar
Released: 1930-09-27

A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the...

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Quick Millions

as Police Detective Capp (uncredited)
Released: 1931-04-17

A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering....

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It's a Great Life

as Bit Role
Released: 1929-12-06

Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a...

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The Big Shakedown

as Digitalis Doctor (uncredited)
Released: 1934-01-06

Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making...

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The Heart of New York

as Otto
Released: 1932-03-26

A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side...

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High Pressure

as Mr. Hackett
Released: 1932-01-10

Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber...

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Conspiracy

as Tourist Husband (uncredited)
Released: 1930-08-10

Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their...

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And Sudden Death

as Defense Counsel
Released: 1936-06-16

An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between...

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Street of Chance

as Bartender (uncredited)
Released: 1930-02-08

'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor...

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We Who Are About to Die

as Mr. Armitage (uncredited)
Released: 1937-01-08

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and...

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The Impatient Maiden

as Dr. Wilcox
Released: 1932-03-01

A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.

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Only Yesterday

as Mr. Lane
Released: 1933-11-01

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide....

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Gabriel Over the White House

as German Delegate to Debt Conference (uncredited)
Released: 1933-03-31

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a...

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Mary Jane's Pa

as Chief Bailey
Released: 1935-04-27

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family,...

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Murder at Glen Athol

as Reuben Marshall
Released: 1936-02-27

A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is...

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Angel of Mercy

as Red Cross Representative (uncredited)
Released: 1939-05-20

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.

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Tomorrow at Seven

as Asa Marsden
Released: 1933-06-01

People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace".

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State's Attorney

as Mr. Ulrich
Released: 1932-05-20

Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the...

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One Man's Journey

as John Radford
Released: 1933-08-31

Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to...

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The Bridge of Sighs

as Judge 'Teddy' Blaisdell
Released: 1936-02-14

Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the...

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That Girl from Paris

as Judge at Second Wedding (uncredited)
Released: 1936-12-31

Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping...

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Madame Racketeer

as J. Harrington Hagney
Released: 1932-07-23

International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay...

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The Virtuous Sin

as Ivanoff
Released: 1930-10-24

Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.

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Are We Civilized?

as Dr. Leonard Gear
Released: 1934-06-05

1934 drama of man's inhumanity to man, starring William Farnum and Anita Louise, directed by...

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Sutter's Gold

as Bartender
Released: 1936-03-01

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

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Man on the Flying Trapeze

as President Malloy
Released: 1935-08-03

Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match...

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I Am a Thief

as Auctioneer
Released: 1934-11-24

A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.

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A Successful Calamity

as President of the United States
Released: 1932-09-17

Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie'...

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Huckleberry Finn

as The King
Released: 1931-08-07

A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home...

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Men in Her Life

as Blake
Released: 1931-11-10

A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her...

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The Finger Points

as Managing Editor Ellis Wheeler
Released: 1931-04-11

Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment...

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Way Back Home

as Wobbling Duffy
Released: 1931-11-13

A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

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Attorney for the Defense

as Managing Editor
Released: 1932-05-21

A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an...

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Symphony of Six Million

as Conferring Doctor
Released: 1932-04-29

A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor....

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True Heaven

as German General
Released: 1929-02-17

Phillip Gresson is in the employ of the British secret service, while heroine Judith is a spy...

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Before Dawn

as Chief of Detectives John F. O'Hara
Released: 1933-08-04

After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously...

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The Menace

as Dr. Horgenson
Released: 1932-01-29

A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.

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Storm at Daybreak

as Counselor Velasch (uncredited)
Released: 1933-06-14

Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the...

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The Right to Love

as William Kellogg
Released: 1930-12-27

A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.

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Romance of the Underworld

as Champagne Joe
Released: 1928-11-10

When a gangster's speakeasy is raided by the police, one of the people picked up is the...

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It's Tough to Be Famous

as S.J. Boynton
Released: 1932-04-02

Scotty, an unwilling Navy war hero is cast into the limelight. He wants to get married and be an...

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Bulldog Edition

as Taggart
Released: 1936-09-13

Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious...

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Misbehaving Ladies

as Mayor Twitchell
Released: 1931-04-16

Ellen, a young American girl who married a European prince and moved to his country, is...

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Beloved

as Henry Burrows
Released: 1934-01-22

Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

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Death Flies East

as Wallace P. Burroughs
Released: 1935-02-28

Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn...

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Pick-up

as The Warden
Released: 1933-03-24

The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both...

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Trouble in Morocco

as DeRouget
Released: 1937-03-09

A newspaperman Paul Cluett (Jack Holt) gets rival reporter Linda Lawrence (Mae Clark) to admit...

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Page Miss Glory

as Tailor (uncredited)
Released: 1935-09-07

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant...

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The Bowery

as Ivan Rummel
Released: 1933-10-07

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery...

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The Perfect Tribute

as Stratton (uncredited)
Released: 1935-08-15

The day after his Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln meets a wounded Confederate...

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When a Feller Needs a Friend

as Doctor
Released: 1932-04-30

A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.

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Hollywood Boulevard

as Dr. Inslow
Released: 1936-08-20

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines...

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The Nut Farm

as Bob Bent, Helen's Husband
Released: 1935-03-24

Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm,...

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The Bargain

as G.T. Warren
Released: 1931-07-23

A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.

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Jim Hanvey, Detective

as Lambert
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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Rainbow's End

as Neil Gibson Sr.
Released: 1935-07-16

A rancher's son finds himself helping another rancher who is at odds with his father--all...

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Emergency Call

as Dr. Schwarz
Released: 1933-06-24

A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.

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Our Blushing Brides

as Floorwalker (uncredited)
Released: 1930-07-19

Jerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But,...

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Back to Nature

as Hotel Manager
Released: 1936-08-14

The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved...

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36 Hours to Kill

as Man in Wash Room
Released: 1936-07-24

Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he...

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His Night Out

as Dr. Kraft
Released: 1935-10-01

When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he...

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Sooky

as Krausmyer
Released: 1931-12-26

Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne,...

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The Plot Thickens

as H. G. Robbins
Released: 1936-12-11

A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on...

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Party Wire

as Thomas P. Sherman
Released: 1935-04-27

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

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Carnival

as Mr. Lawson
Released: 1935-02-15

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and...

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Hold the Press

as Bishop
Released: 1933-10-25

When newspaper reporter Tim Collins, of the "Post", is slugged while investigating the shooting...

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Bondage

as Judge (uncredited)
Released: 1933-04-22

Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of...

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The Best Man Wins

as Chief of Police
Released: 1935-01-14

A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find...

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Madame Spy

as Pahlke
Released: 1934-02-10

Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian...

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Crimson Romance

as John Fleming
Released: 1934-10-12

After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German...

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Crack-Up

as Alfred Knuxton
Released: 1936-12-14

Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.

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Not Quite Decent

as Canfield
Released: 1929-07-02

On her way to New York for her first stage appearance, Linda Cunningham meets Mame Jarrow, a...

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The Texan

as Thacker
Released: 1930-05-10

Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow's son and falls in love with a cousin.

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Half Way to Heaven

as Circus Manager
Released: 1929-12-14

Odd little circus film about trapeze artists and obsessive love.

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The Woman in Room 13

as uncredited
Released: 1932-05-15

Divorcee Laura marries Paul but his employer is also enamored with Laura and sends Paul on a...

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You Said a Hatful!

as Anderson
Released: 1934-10-13

When he learns the secret news that it will be sold today at 4pm in Kansas City, international...

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It Happened One Day

as A.L. Boyd
Released: 1934-07-07

Charley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter.

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Helping Grandma

as Mr. Pennypacker
Released: 1931-01-03

The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The...

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Whirlpool

as Newspaper Editor
Released: 1934-04-10

An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.

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Two Against the World

as District Attorney Howard Mills
Released: 1932-09-03

A socialite finds herself involved in a murder trial that is prosecuted by her boyfriend.

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Man Trouble

as Eddie
Released: 1930-08-24

A hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in...

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The World and the Flesh

as Banker
Released: 1932-04-22

During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a...

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Big Business Girl

as Walter T. Morley
Released: 1931-06-12

A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her...

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The Road to Reno

as Mr. Ash
Released: 1931-09-25

Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff -...

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Another Face

as Dr. H.J. Buler (uncredited)
Released: 1935-12-20

The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his...

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Take the Stand

as Mr. Nevin
Released: 1934-08-07

A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective...

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Fifty Roads to Town

as Smorgen
Released: 1937-06-03

A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on...

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Every Saturday Night

as Mr. Dayton
Released: 1936-03-13

First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother...

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Fifteen Wives

as Dist. Atty. Kerry
Released: 1934-07-15

Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his...

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Du Barry, Woman of Passion

as Bit role
Released: 1930-10-10

Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and...

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Wild Company

as Prosecuting Attorney
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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Smiling Irish Eyes

as Max North
Released: 1929-07-22

A 1929 film directed by William A. Seiter.

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