Preston Foster

Born: 1900-08-22

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


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Kansas City Confidential

as Tim Foster
Released: 1952-11-11

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.

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Lucy and Desi

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2022-01-21

Explore the unlikely partnership and enduring legacy of one of the most prolific power couples...

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The Informer

as Dan Gallagher
Released: 1935-05-09

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's...

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Doctor X

as Dr. Wells
Released: 1932-08-03

A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

as Pete
Released: 1932-11-09

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of...

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Ramrod

as Frank Ivey
Released: 1947-05-02

A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she...

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Two Seconds

as Bud Clark
Released: 1932-05-28

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being...

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The Harvey Girls

as Judge Sam Purvis
Released: 1946-01-18

On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of...

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Guadalcanal Diary

as Father Donnelly
Released: 1943-10-27

Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the...

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The Time Travelers

as Dr. Erik von Steiner
Released: 1964-10-29

Research scientists experimenting with time warps are accidentally propelled forward into an...

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North West Mounted Police

as Sergeant Jim Brett
Released: 1940-10-22

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him)...

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The Valley of Decision

as Jim Brennan
Released: 1945-05-03

Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her...

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Law and Order

as Kurt Durling
Released: 1953-05-13

Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out...

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American Empire

as Paxton Bryce
Released: 1942-12-11

Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking...

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Thunder Birds

as Steve Britt
Released: 1942-10-28

On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in...

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The Plough and the Stars

as Jack Clitheroe
Released: 1936-12-26

A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter...

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Advance to the Rear

as Gen. Bateman (uncredited)
Released: 1964-06-10

As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and...

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Ladies They Talk About

as David 'Dave' Slade
Released: 1933-02-04

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

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Annie Oakley

as Toby Walker
Released: 1935-11-15

Awkward Annie (Barbara Stanwyck) loves her sharpshooting rival (Preston Foster) in Buffalo...

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Night in New Orleans

as Police Lt. Steve Abbott
Released: 1942-07-01

A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under...

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Heat Lightning

as George
Released: 1934-03-01

A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.

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The Storm

as Jack Stacey
Released: 1938-10-28

A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.

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Montana Territory

as Sheriff Henry Plummer
Released: 1952-05-31

John Malvin , prospecting the Montana territory during the gold rush, sees bandits kill a miner...

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I Shot Jesse James

as John Kelley
Released: 1949-02-26

Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to...

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My Friend Flicka

as Rob McLaughlin
Released: 1943-05-26

Ken McLaughlin is a precocious 10-year-old who lives with his family on a remote Wyoming ranch....

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Submarine Patrol

as Lt. (j.g.) John C. Drake
Released: 1938-11-25

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with...

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The Hunted

as Johnny Saxon
Released: 1948-04-07

A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she...

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Sea Devils

as Michael 'Mike' O'Shea
Released: 1937-02-19

Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and...

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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

as Himself (uncredited)
Released: 1945-10-05

When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony...

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Inside Job

as Bart Madden
Released: 1946-06-14

A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster...

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The Big Night

as Andy La Main
Released: 1951-12-07

A young man zigzags through the sordid vortex of downtown Los Angeles while seeking vengeance on...

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Moon Over Burma

as Bill Gordon
Released: 1940-07-26

The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American...

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20,000 Men a Year

as Jim Howell
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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Geronimo

as Capt. Bill Starrett
Released: 1939-11-26

The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a...

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Cafe Hostess

as Dan Walters
Released: 1940-01-11

A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the...

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We Who Are About to Die

as Steven Mathews
Released: 1937-01-08

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

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Love Before Breakfast

as Scott Miller
Released: 1936-03-09

Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots...

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I, the Jury

as Capt. Pat Chambers
Released: 1953-08-14

After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at...

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1975-08-06

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American...

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First Lady

as Stephen Wayne
Released: 1937-12-04

A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.

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The Bands Plays On

as Howdy Hardy
Released: 1934-12-21

A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.

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King of the Wild Horses

as Dave Taggert
Released: 1947-03-28

The deep unbreakable bond between a wild stallion and the boy he rescues is chronicled in this...

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Hoopla

as Nifty Miller
Released: 1933-11-30

A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.

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Tomahawk

as Col. Carrington
Released: 1951-02-05

In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road...

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Society Smugglers

as Sully
Released: 1939-03-01

The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is...

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The Man from Galveston

as Judge Homer Black
Released: 1963-12-18

Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge...

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The Last Days of Pompeii

as Marcus
Released: 1935-10-18

In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator,...

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The Arizonian

as Tex Randolph
Released: 1935-06-27

Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness...

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Strange Triangle

as Sam Crane
Released: 1946-05-17

In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a...

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Roger Touhy, Gangster

as Roger Touhy
Released: 1944-06-03

Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's...

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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1997-05-12

Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By...

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Up the River

as 'Chipper' Morgan
Released: 1938-12-09

A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison...

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Strangers All

as Murray Carter
Released: 1935-04-01

Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.

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His Woman

as Crewman
Released: 1931-11-20

Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a...

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Elmer, the Great

as Walker
Released: 1933-04-29

Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr....

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The All-American

as Steve Kelly
Released: 1932-10-01

The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.

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The Roundup

as Greg Lane
Released: 1941-04-03

Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest...

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Missing Evidence

as Bill Collins
Released: 1939-12-15

G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating...

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A Gentleman After Dark

as Tom Gaynor
Released: 1942-04-16

A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's...

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Life Begins

as Dr. Brett
Released: 1932-09-10

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The...

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Follow the Leader

as Two-Gun Terry
Released: 1930-12-06

Ed Wynn, a waiter, tries to get hit employers daughter a start on the stage; Ginger Rogers...

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Bermuda Mystery

as Steve Carramond
Released: 1944-05-01

A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.

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We're Only Human

as Det. Sgt. Pete 'Mac' McCaffrey
Released: 1935-12-27

A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.

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Unfinished Business

as Steve Duncan
Released: 1941-08-27

Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the...

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Wharf Angel

as Como Murphy
Released: 1934-03-15

On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's...

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The Man Who Dared

as Jan Novak
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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Army Girl

as Capt. Dike Conger
Released: 1938-08-11

A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces...

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Corruption

as Tim Butler
Released: 1933-06-18

A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous...

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News Is Made at Night

as Steve Drum
Released: 1939-07-20

Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free...

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Secret Agent of Japan

as Roy Bonnell
Released: 1942-04-03

World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.

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Tangier

as Col. Jose Artiego
Released: 1946-06-06

In Tangier, disgraced American war correspondent Paul Kenyon, café dancer Rita and local...

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Everybody's Doing It

as Bruce Keene
Released: 1938-01-14

Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national...

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Heads Up

as Blake
Released: 1930-10-10

Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with...

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Twice Blessed

as Jeff Turner
Released: 1945-05-31

Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents...

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Thunderhead - Son of Flicka

as Rob McLaughlin
Released: 1945-03-15

A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved...

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The 42nd Street Special

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1933-02-20

As part of a publicity campaign for the film 42nd Street (1933), Warner Bros. Pictures, with the...

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The People's Enemy

as Vince M. Falcone
Released: 1935-04-29

Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars...

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Chasing Danger

as Steve Mitchell
Released: 1939-05-05

When American newsreel cameraman stationed in Paris is sent to cover an Arab rebellion he finds...

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The Tougher They Come

as Joe MacKinley
Released: 1950-11-16

Set in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who...

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The Last Mile

as John 'Killer' Mears, Cell 4
Released: 1932-08-17

Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives...

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Just Around the Corner

as Tim - Office Worker (uncredited)
Released: 1933-01-17

Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise...

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A Night at the Biltmore Bowl

as Preston Foster
Released: 1935-06-21

Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles.

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You Said a Mouthful

as Ed Dover
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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Little Tokyo, U.S.A.

as Michael Steele
Released: 1942-07-08

Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is...

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The Lady in the Morgue

as Det. Bill Crane
Released: 1938-04-22

A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.

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Muss 'em Up

as Tip O'Neil
Released: 1936-02-13

Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul...

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The Big Cat

as Tom Eggers
Released: 1949-04-01

A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by...

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Double Danger

as Robert Crane
Released: 1938-01-28

A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer...

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You Can't Beat Love

as James Ellsworth 'Jimmy' Hughes
Released: 1937-06-25

The film begins with a knuckle-head playboy (Preston Foster) working on a road crew dressed in a...

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Sensation Hunters

as Tom baylor
Released: 1933-08-30

Dale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound...

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The Westland Case

as Bill Crane - Private Detective
Released: 1937-10-30

A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows...

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The Outcasts of Poker Flat

as John Oakhurst
Released: 1937-04-16

The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.

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The Last Warning

as Bill Crane
Released: 1938-12-07

In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to...

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You've Got To Be Smart

as D. O. Griggs
Released: 1967-04-28

A slick conman finds a singing teenage preacher in a small town in Arkansas and brings him to...

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Three Desperate Men

as Tom Denton
Released: 1951-01-12

When they learn that their brother Matt Denton is awaiting trial in California, charged with...

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Sleepers East

as Jason Everett
Released: 1934-01-01

No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold...

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The Marshal's Daughter

as Preston Foster - Poker-Game Player
Released: 1953-06-25

To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star,...

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It's Your America

as Army Surgeon (uncredited)
Released: 1946-07-25

This short--long rumored to have been directed by John Ford--was produced by the US government...

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The Devil's Mate

as Insp. O'Brien
Released: 1933-08-20

A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the...

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Chubasco

as Nick
Released: 1968-04-14

A wild beach boy takes a job on a tuna fishing boat.

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Nothing But the Truth

as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: 1929-04-20

A young man bets $10,000 that for 24 hour he can tell nothing but the truth.

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Thunderhoof

as Scotty Mason
Released: 1948-07-08

Two men, one woman and one horse get into trouble.

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Classification of Enlisted Men

as Narrator
Released: 1942-10-09

War Department documentary short focusing on four inductees into the US Army.

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77 Sunset Strip

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-10-10

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...

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Target: The Corruptors!

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-09-29

Target: The Corruptors! is an American crime drama series starring Stephen McNally which aired...

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Going My Way

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-10-03

Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series

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Letter to Loretta

as uncredited
First aired: 1953-09-20

Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...

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Outlaws

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-26

Outlaws is an NBC Western television series, starring Barton MacLane as U.S. marshal Frank...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Bob Hood
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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General Electric Theater

as uncredited
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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Harbor Command

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-10-11

Harbor Command is an American action series that aired in syndicated from October 11, 1957, to...

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Gunslinger

as Captain Zachary Scott
First aired: 1961-02-09

Gunslinger was a Western television series starring Tony Young that aired on the CBS television...

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