Robert Emmett Keane

Born: 1883-03-03


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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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

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

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Mad Love

as Raoul (Uncredited)
Released: 1935-07-12

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's...

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Boom Town

as Oilman in New York (uncredited)
Released: 1940-08-30

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both...

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Boys Town

as Burton
Released: 1938-09-08

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of...

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It Happened Tomorrow

as uncredited
Released: 1944-03-31

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This...

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The Devil and Miss Jones

as Tom Higgins
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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Confessions of a Nazi Spy

as Harrison - Passport Official (uncredited)
Released: 1939-05-06

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

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A Double Life

as uncredited
Released: 1947-12-25

A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage...

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Primrose Path

as Gossip in Diner (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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Blondie's Hero

as Mr. J. Collins (uncredited)
Released: 1950-03-09

Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts...

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Swanee River

as Drunken Agitator
Released: 1939-12-29

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who...

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The Atomic Kid

as Mr. Reynolds
Released: 1954-12-08

A uranium prospector is eating a peanut butter sandwich in the desert where atom bomb tests are...

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Babes in Arms

as Booking Agent (uncredited)
Released: 1939-10-10

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his...

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

as Mr. Barklett the Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: 1939-02-10

Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes...

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5th Ave Girl

as Seal Expert (uncredited)
Released: 1939-09-22

A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his...

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Dames

as Man On Train (uncredited)
Released: 1934-09-01

A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.

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Michael Shayne: Private Detective

as Larry Kincaid
Released: 1940-12-19

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter...

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Hot Water

as Speaker (uncredited)
Released: 1937-09-24

The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous...

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Uncertain Glory

as uncredited
Released: 1944-04-07

In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid...

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Crazy House

as Attorney Scatterby
Released: 1943-10-08

Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another...

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Casanova Brown

as Yokes
Released: 1944-08-23

Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled....

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Strange Affair

as Police Psychiatrist (Uncredited)
Released: 1944-10-05

Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a...

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Men of Boys Town

as Burton
Released: 1941-04-11

Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.

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Captain Thunder

as Don Miguel
Released: 1930-12-27

A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. ...

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A-Haunting We Will Go

as Parker
Released: 1942-08-07

Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable...

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The Chaser

as Simon Kelly
Released: 1938-07-29

A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop...

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The Whistler

as Charles 'Charlie' McNear (Uncredited)
Released: 1944-03-30

A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill...

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Jitterbugs

as Henry Corcoran
Released: 1943-06-05

The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills"...

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Lillian Russell

as Jeweler
Released: 1940-05-24

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

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Fired Wife

as Lawyer
Released: 1943-09-04

A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it...

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The Hoodlum Saint

as Doctor Treating O'Neill (uncredited)
Released: 1946-04-04

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that...

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Hi, Good Lookin'!

as Homer Hardacre
Released: 1944-03-22

An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a...

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Scared Stiff

as Prof. Wisner
Released: 1945-06-22

A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.

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In the Navy

as Mr. Travers (uncredited)
Released: 1941-05-30

Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias,...

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My Favorite Blonde

as Nat Burton
Released: 1942-04-02

Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he...

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Incident

as Herman Rinsel - the Druggist
Released: 1948-10-30

An innocent man -- due to a case of mistaken identity -- is beaten. Once recovered, the...

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Susanna Pass

as Martin Masters, Newspaper editor
Released: 1949-04-29

The bad guys dynamite a fish hatchery. They're trying to put the hatchery out of business so...

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The Saint Takes Over

as Leo Sloan
Released: 1940-06-07

The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring...

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Pacific Blackout

as Defense Attorney
Released: 1941-12-31

Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout...

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Tin Pan Alley

as Manager
Released: 1940-11-29

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to...

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Hawaiian Nights

as Fothering
Released: 1939-09-08

Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him...

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The Good Humor Man

as Lavery (uncredited)
Released: 1950-03-24

Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl...

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Follow Me Quietly

as Coroner
Released: 1949-07-07

1949 thriller about the hunt for a serial killer known as "the Judge" who kills his victims on...

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Night Editor

as Max (Uncredited)
Released: 1946-03-29

A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.

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Mary Ryan, Detective

as Munsell
Released: 1949-11-03

A female police detective (Marsha Hunt) enters jail to gain the confidence of a shoplifter and...

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These Glamour Girls

as Mr. Wilston (uncredited)
Released: 1939-08-18

A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he...

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Sabotage Squad

as Mr. Conrad
Released: 1942-08-27

A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine...

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Over 21

as Ed Kennedy (uncredited)
Released: 1945-08-08

A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old...

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Jailbreak

as City Editor
Released: 1936-08-05

A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.

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Freshman Love

as Announcer (uncredited)
Released: 1936-01-18

A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't...

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The Falcon in Danger

as Wally Fairchild (uncredited)
Released: 1943-07-17

Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is...

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Hot Money

as Professor Kimberly
Released: 1936-07-18

Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.

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You're My Everything

as Architect (uncredited)
Released: 1949-07-22

In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes...

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Little Nellie Kelly

as Dr. Walton (uncredited)
Released: 1940-11-22

Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and...

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Angels' Alley

as Lawyer Felix Crowe
Released: 1948-03-07

Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However,...

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Under Suspicion

as Logan Walters
Released: 1937-11-22

Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his...

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The Man Who Wouldn't Die

as Alfred Dunning
Released: 1942-04-27

A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the...

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Undercover Maisie

as Ed Harris (Uncredited)
Released: 1947-03-01

Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department...

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The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

as Peter Van Wyck
Released: 1940-05-30

A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of...

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The Impatient Years

as Attorney
Released: 1944-09-10

Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him...

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Gossip

as Frank
Released: 1929-04-29

A husband and wife arguing about which sex gossips more. Just then a friend they both know comes...

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Cafe Society

as Random
Released: 1939-03-03

A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to...

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Three Girls About Town

as Casket-Selling Mortician
Released: 1941-10-23

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next...

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Born to Be Wild

as J. Stearns Davis
Released: 1938-02-16

Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast...

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Fear in the Night

as Lewis Belknap, aka Harry Byrd
Released: 1947-04-10

The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a...

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Man Of The People

as Joseph B. Murphy
Released: 1937-01-27

An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.

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Blonde Inspiration

as Rudy (uncredited)
Released: 1941-02-07

A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.

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One Hour To Live

as Max Stanton
Released: 1939-11-10

Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.

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The Sun Never Sets

as Henchman Careira
Released: 1939-05-31

The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes...

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There's Always a Woman

as City Editor (uncredited)
Released: 1938-04-20

An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency....

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This Time for Keeps

as Mr. Burt Reiner
Released: 1942-03-01

A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.

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Arsène Lupin Returns

as Bill Watkins - Criminologist (uncredited)
Released: 1938-02-25

A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the...

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The Boogie Man Will Get You

as Alarm Clock Salesman
Released: 1942-10-22

A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants...

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Hills of Oklahoma

as Charles Stevens
Released: 1950-06-01

In this remake of Gene Autry's 1942 "Call of the Canyon", Rex Allen, the newly-elected head of...

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Why Girls Leave Home

as Ed Blake
Released: 1945-10-09

In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated...

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The Strange Mr. Gregory

as District Attorney
Released: 1945-01-12

The title character, played by Edmund Lowe, is a famous magician who fakes his own death -- then...

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Rainbow Over Texas

as Wooster J. Dalrymple
Released: 1946-05-09

Roy visits his home town while on a personal appearance tour. While there he enters a pony...

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Double Alibi

as Chick Lester
Released: 1940-03-01

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

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Frontier Investigator

as Erskine Doubleday
Released: 1949-05-01

Rocky Lane, out to find the murderer of his brother, runs into a battle between two stage lines...

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The Big Noise

as Mr. Aldrich
Released: 1936-06-22

The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet...

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The Red Dragon

as Alfred Wyans (as Robert E. Keane)
Released: 1945-08-01

Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with...

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When My Baby Smiles at Me

as Sam Harris
Released: 1948-11-10

Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer...

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Down the Stretch

as Nick
Released: 1936-09-18

A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race.

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Henry, the Rainmaker

as Seton
Released: 1949-02-13

The first of Monogram's "Father" series was Henry, the Rainmaker, assembled in a fast seven...

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Brides Are Like That

as Jones, the Jeweler
Released: 1936-04-18

Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that...

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Laugh and Get Rich

as Phelps
Released: 1931-03-27

An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that...

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The Night Before the Divorce

as Judge John Osborne (uncredited)
Released: 1942-03-06

Marital comedy with a dash of murder.

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The Spellbinder

as Judge Butler, Second Trial
Released: 1939-07-28

Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending...

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Slightly Tempted

as Gentleman Jack
Released: 1940-10-18

A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.

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It Happened in Flatbush

as Team Co-Owner (uncredited)
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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Streets of New York

as Roger Wilson (uncredited)
Released: 1939-04-12

Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams...

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The Rookie Cop

as Commissioner Hugh Thomas
Released: 1939-04-28

A rookie cop tries to prove his friend is innocent of a robbery, despite the police...

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Men Call It Love

as Joe
Released: 1931-03-14

Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.

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The Shadow Returns

as Charles Frobay
Released: 1946-02-16

The Shadow (Kane Richmond) cracks a case of missing jewels, murder and plastics.

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Fool's Gold

as Professor Dixon
Released: 1946-10-09

The son of an Army friend is about the join an outlaw gang. Hoppy prevents this and brings the...

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Pack Up Your Troubles

as Kane
Released: 1939-10-24

Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

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When Gangland Strikes

as Judge George Walters
Released: 1956-03-15

In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries...

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Billy The Kid Returns

as Mr. Page
Released: 1938-09-04

After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for...

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The Captain's Kid

as Mister Bridges, a Lawyer
Released: 1936-11-14

In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the...

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Panic on the Air

as Cillani
Released: 1936-04-10

A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover...

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My Brother Talks to Horses

as The Chestnut's Owner (uncredited)
Released: 1947-02-04

Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with...

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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

as Ed Harvey
Released: 1940-01-11

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death....

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Hello, Sucker

as Connors
Released: 1941-06-01

A young couple buy a bankrupt vaudeville booking agency, and try to make it a success.

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News Is Made at Night

as Fred Barrett
Released: 1939-07-20

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

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Out of the Storm

as Holbrook
Released: 1948-09-11

Donald Lewis is a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed...

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City of Chance

as Editor
Released: 1940-01-13

Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler...

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Her Lucky Night

as Lawson
Released: 1945-02-09

In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with...

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The Border Legion

as Officer Willets
Released: 1940-12-05

Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by...

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Kansas City Kitty

as Joe Latham
Released: 1944-08-24

A piano teacher and her roommate decide invest their savings in a music publishing company....

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There's a Girl in My Heart

as Captain Blake
Released: 1949-12-19

A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its...

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Navajo Trail Raiders

as John Blanford
Released: 1949-10-15

Outlaw gangs are plundering the freight lines that bring supplies into Yellow Creek. The only...

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Outside These Walls

as Sam Fulton
Released: 1939-05-04

Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper....

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The Timber Trail

as Jordon Weatherbee, Banker
Released: 1948-06-14

Monte Hale is a stagecoach driver for Jed Baker's stage-line. Jed believes his brother, Ralph,...

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Think It Over

as Johnson, Furniture Store Owner
Released: 1938-07-24

A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.

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I Surrender Dear

as Russ Nelson
Released: 1948-10-06

Patty Nelson lands a job as a singer with orchestra leader Al Tyler, and tours with the band as...

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The Lone Ranger

as Sim Sturgis
First aired: 1949-09-15

The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring...

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