Preston Foster
Preston Foster (August 24, 1900 – July 14, 1970) was an American stage and film actor, and singer. Foster entered films in 1929 after appearing as a Broadway stage actor. He was appearing in Broadway plays as late as October 1931 when he acted in a play titled Two Seconds starring Edward J. Pawley. Some of his notable films include: Doctor X (1932), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Annie Oakley (1935), The Last Days of Pompeii (also 1935), The Informer (1935) (as the head of the organization), and My Friend Flicka (1943). He starred on the television drama, Waterfront (1954–1955), playing the role of Captain John Herrick. Foster has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was sometimes credited in movies as Preston S. Foster. His first wife was stage actress Gertrude Warren (1926–1945; divorced). He had one daughter, Stephanie. He was married to his second wife, actress Sheila Darcy, from 1946 until his death. During World War II while serving with the United States Coast Guard, he rose to the rank of Captain, Temporary Reserve. He eventually held the honorary rank of Commodore in the U.S. Coast Guard. After the war and before his productive movie career, Foster became a singer of some note. In 1948 Foster created a trio with himself, Gene Leis and Foster’s wife, actress Sheila Darcy. Gene arranged the songs, and they played on radio and in clubs, appearing with Orrin Tucker, Peggy Ann Garner and Rita Hayworth. Description above from the Wikipedia article Preston Foster, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Kansas City Confidential
as Tim FosterAn ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
Movie pageI Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
as PeteA World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of...
Movie pageLucy and Desi
as Self (archive footage)Explore the unlikely partnership and enduring legacy of one of the most prolific power couples...
Movie pageThe Informer
as Dan GallagherGypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's...
Movie pageThe Harvey Girls
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Movie pageBud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
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Movie pageThe Valley of Decision
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Movie pageDoctor X
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Movie pageAmerican Empire
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Movie pageThe Big Night
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Movie pageMy Friend Flicka
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Movie pageTwo Seconds
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Movie pageI, the Jury
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Movie pageStrangers All
as Murray CarterDomestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
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Movie pageLife Begins
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Movie pageHis Woman
as CrewmanTough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a...
Movie pageSociety Smugglers
as SullyThe Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is...
Movie pageSensation Hunters
as Tom baylorDale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound...
Movie pageWe're Only Human
as Det. Sgt. Pete 'Mac' McCaffreyA cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Movie pageWharf Angel
as Como MurphyOn the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's...
Movie pageSubmarine Patrol
as Lt. (j.g.) John C. DrakeA naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with...
Movie pageRoger Touhy, Gangster
as Roger TouhySet during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's...
Movie pageThe Devil's Mate
as Insp. O'BrienA convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the...
Movie pageThe Outcasts of Poker Flat
as John OakhurstThe 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
Movie pageThe Storm
as Jack StaceyA passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
Movie pageThunderhead: Son of Flicka
as Rob McLaughlinA young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved...
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as Dave TaggertThe deep unbreakable bond between a wild stallion and the boy he rescues is chronicled in this...
Movie pageTangier
as Col. Jose ArtiegoIn Tangier, disgraced American war correspondent Paul Kenyon, café dancer Rita and local...
Movie pageNight in New Orleans
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Movie pageA Gentleman After Dark
as Tom GaynorA greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's...
Movie pageThe Last Warning
as Bill CraneIn their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to...
Movie pageThe Westland Case
as Bill Crane - Private DetectiveA detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows...
Movie pageMoon Over Burma
as Bill GordonThe managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American...
Movie pageYou Said a Mouthful
as Ed DoverTwo men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer....
Movie page20,000 Men a Year
as Jim HowellPilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a...
Movie pageSecret Agent of Japan
as Roy BonnellWorld War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.
Movie pageMissing Evidence
as Bill CollinsG-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating...
Movie pageThe Roundup
as Greg LaneOriginally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest...
Movie pageDouble Danger
as Robert CraneA crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer...
Movie pageThe Marshal's Daughter
as Preston Foster - Poker-Game PlayerTo fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star,...
Movie pageLittle Tokyo, U.S.A.
as Michael SteeleFilmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is...
Movie pageChubasco
as NickA wild beach boy takes a job on a tuna fishing boat.
Movie pageFollow the Leader
as Two-Gun TerryA kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a...
Movie pageUnfinished Business
as Steve DuncanStarting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the...
Movie pageMontana Territory
as Sheriff Henry PlummerJohn Malvin , prospecting the Montana territory during the gold rush, sees bandits kill a miner...
Movie pageSea Devils
as Michael 'Mike' O'SheaDoris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and...
Movie pageThe Tougher They Come
as Joe MacKinleySet in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who...
Movie pageUp the River
as 'Chipper' MorganA group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison...
Movie pageThe All-American
as Steve KellyThe story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
Movie pageHeads Up
as BlakeJack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with...
Movie pageFirst Lady
as Stephen WayneA politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
Movie pageCafe Hostess
as Dan WaltersA dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the...
Movie pageThunder Birds
as Steve BrittOn a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in...
Movie pageSleepers East
as Jason EverettNo good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold...
Movie pageYou Can't Beat Love
as James Ellsworth 'Jimmy' HughesThe film begins with a knuckle-head playboy (Preston Foster) working on a road crew dressed in a...
Movie pageThe People's Enemy
as Vince M. FalconeMoney was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars...
Movie pageThree Desperate Men
as Tom DentonWhen they learn that their brother Matt Denton is awaiting trial in California, charged with...
Movie pageThe 42nd Street Special
as Self (uncredited)As part of a publicity campaign for the film 42nd Street (1933), Warner Bros. Pictures, with the...
Movie pageBermuda Mystery
as Steve CarramondA private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.
Movie pageThe Bands Plays On
as Howdy HardyA judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
Movie pageNews Is Made at Night
as Steve DrumNewspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free...
Movie pageStrange Triangle
as Sam CraneIn this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a...
Movie pageIt's Your America
as Army Surgeon (uncredited)This short--long rumored to have been directed by John Ford--was produced by the US government...
Movie pageThe Big Gusher
as Hank MasonHoping to strike it rich, four people--two best buddies, a blonde waitress and a cheerful...
Movie pageA Night at the Biltmore Bowl
as Preston FosterJoin vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles.
Movie pageChasing Danger
as Steve MitchellWhen American newsreel cameraman stationed in Paris is sent to cover an Arab rebellion he finds...
Movie pageNothing But the Truth
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)A young man bets $10,000 that for 24 hour he can tell nothing but the truth.
Movie pageEverybody's Doing It
as Bruce KeeneGangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national...
Movie pageHoopla
as Nifty MillerA hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
Movie pageThe Arizonian
as Tex RandolphClay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness...
Movie pageYou've Got To Be Smart
as D. O. GriggsA slick conman finds a singing teenage preacher in a small town in Arkansas and brings him to...
Movie pageThunderhoof
as Scotty MasonTwo men, one woman and one horse get into trouble.
Movie pageArmy Girl
as Capt. Dike CongerA young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces...
Movie pageClassification of Enlisted Men
as NarratorWar Department documentary short focusing on four inductees into the US Army.
Movie pageJust Around the Corner
as Tim - Office Worker (uncredited)Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise...
Movie page77 Sunset Strip
as uncreditedStu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...
TV Show pageOutlaws
as uncreditedOutlaws is an NBC Western television series, starring Barton MacLane as U.S. marshal Frank...
TV Show pageGoing My Way
as uncreditedGoing My Way is an American comedy-drama series
TV Show pageTarget: The Corruptors!
as uncreditedTarget: The Corruptors! is an American crime drama series starring Stephen McNally which aired...
TV Show pageLetter to Loretta
as uncreditedLetter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...
TV Show pageHarbor Command
as uncreditedHarbor Command is an American action series that aired in syndicated from October 11, 1957, to...
TV Show pageGunslinger
as Captain Zachary ScottGunslinger was a Western television series starring Tony Young that aired on the CBS television...
TV Show pageSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Bob HoodSchlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....
TV Show pageGeneral Electric Theater
as uncreditedGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...
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