Sam McDaniel
Sam McDaniel was an American screen and television actor, as well as a jazz musician. He was the brother of actresses Hattie and Etta McDaniel.
Double Indemnity
as Charlie the Garage Attendant (uncredited)A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he...
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Son of Dracula
as Andy (uncredited)Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local...
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They Died with Their Boots On
as Waiter Serving Custer (uncredited)The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his...
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Gold Diggers of 1935
as Janitor (uncredited)Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation...
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The Public Enemy
as Headwaiter (uncredited)Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum...
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The File on Thelma Jordon
as Porter (Uncredited)Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with...
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Captains Courageous
as 'Doc'Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a...
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Experiment Perilous
as Porter (uncredited)In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him...
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Jezebel
as Driver (uncredited)In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who...
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Union Pacific
as St. Louis Waiter (uncredited)One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad...
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In This Our Life
as Black Man in Jail (uncredited)An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining...
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A Hole in the Head
as AndyAn impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son.
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Party Girl
as Jesse (uncredited)Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he...
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Union Depot
as Redcap Train Porter (uncredited)Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a...
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Dance, Fools, Dance
as Luva’s Butler (uncredited)When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a...
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Footlight Parade
as Hotel Porter in Stage Act (uncredited)A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife...
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Silver Queen
as TobyA beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father...
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Guilty Hands
as Jimmy, a Black Servant (uncredited)A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé...
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Sleepers West
as Porter (uncredited)Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder...
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Virginia City
as Sam Moore - Black Driver (uncredited)Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million...
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Wagon Wheels
as CoachmanA wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy...
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We're in the Money
as Men's Club Attendant (uncredited)Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to...
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Too Many Husbands
as PorterLong-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle...
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The Great Lie
as Jefferson WashingtonAfter a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for...
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Woman Wanted
as Oscar - Show Boat Washroom Attendant (uncredited)Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into...
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Louisiana Purchase
as SamA bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a...
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Golden Hoofs
as HenryA teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is...
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Let Us Live
as Hold-Up Witness - Mose (uncredited)When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is...
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Manhattan Melodrama
as Black Prisoner on Death Row (uncredited)The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law...
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It Happened in Hollywood
as Black PorterA silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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Kid Millions
as Ship's Steward (uncredited)A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but...
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The Egg and I
as Waiter on Train (Uncredited)World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and...
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Employees' Entrance
as Janitor at Hotel Balken (uncredited)Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He...
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Flamingo Road
as BoatrightA stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town...
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New York Town
as Henry (uncredited)Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York...
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Brother Orchid
as Janitor Tripping Fire Alarms (uncredited)When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill...
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My Reputation
as The Van Ormans' Butler Jonathan (uncredited)Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man....
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The Rich Are Always with Us
as Julian's Butler Max (uncredited)A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend...
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Crack-Up
as Porter (Uncredited)Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up,...
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Dark Hazard
as George, the Train Porter (uncredited)Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His...
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Stranded
as Train Porter (uncredited)A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Lady Killer
as uncreditedAn ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally...
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Grand Central Murder
as Night Watchman (uncredited)Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at...
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Without Reservations
as Train Waiter (uncredited)Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the...
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Without Reservations
as Freddy (uncredited)Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the...
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as DeaconBroadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
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36 Hours to Kill
as Dining Car WaiterDuke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he...
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When Strangers Marry
as Train PorterA naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be...
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A Free Soul
as Casino Valet (uncredited)An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects...
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Lady on a Train
as uncreditedWhile watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building....
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Four's a Crowd
as H. Louis Brown (uncredited)A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.
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Days of Jesse James
as Black Janitor (uncredited)Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers....
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Sing, Baby, Sing
as Train PorterThe "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is...
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Hearts Divided
as ZachariahNapoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a...
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The All-American
as McCormick's Butler (uncredited)The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
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Here Comes the Navy
as Washroom Attendant (uncredited)A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
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After Midnight with Boston Blackie
as Train PorterBlackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
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College Coach
as Lunch Wagon Proprietor (uncredited)Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students....
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Johnny Trouble
as Doorman (uncredited)An elderly woman becomes convinced that a trouble-making college student is her grandson she's...
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Movie Crazy
as Men's Room Valet (Uncredited)After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test...
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Ice Palace
as George, the train porterAlaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers,...
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Never Say Goodbye
as Porter (uncredited)Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is...
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Good Girls Go to Paris
as Sam - Train Porter (uncredited)Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English...
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Joe Palooka, Champ
as SmokyAfter losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh...
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The Dragon Murder Case
as Steam Room Attendant (uncredited)Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone...
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Only Yesterday
as Red Cap Porter (Uncredited)On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide....
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Johnny Doughboy
as CookAs sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career,...
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Give My Regards to Broadway
as PorterA family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play...
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She Wouldn't Say Yes
as Train Steward (uncredited)Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her...
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Three Loves Has Nancy
as Train Waiter (uncredited)A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically...
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A Man Called Peter
as HenryBased on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea...
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Marriage Is a Private Affair
as Train Station Porter (uncredited)Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been...
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Fashions of 1934
as Cleaning Man (uncredited)When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner...
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Whistling in the Dark
as Porter (uncredited)A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist...
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Broadway Limited
as Train PorterA publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one...
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Dixie Dugan
as Night Porter (uncredited)Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a...
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The Calling of Dan Matthews
as Sam (uncredited)Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters),...
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Mokey
as Uncle BenA newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.
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The Vanishing Frontier
as Whistlin' ZekeIts 1850 and California is under ruthless military rule. Kirby Tornell's rancho has been taken...
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The Naughty Nineties
as Matt - Cook-Waiter (uncredited)In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first...
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Operator 13
as Rufus (uncredited)American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen,...
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Grand Slam
as Man Listening To Radio BroadcastA Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for...
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Race Street
as Garage Attendant (uncredited)A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
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International Lady
as WaiterTim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and...
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Belle of the Nineties
as Jasmine's Admirer (uncredited)Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly...
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They Made Me a Criminal
as Splash (uncredited)A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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Going Hollywood
as RasputinThe film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find...
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The Chief
as BootblackThe dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only...
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Blondie Johnson
as Train Porter (uncredited)A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist...
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Danger – Love at Work
as Train porterA New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South...
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Walking Down Broadway
as Claybourne's ChauffeurFive closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway...
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Charlie Chan's Courage
as PorterCharlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder...
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Heavenly Daze
as SpiffinghamShemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an...
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The Human Side
as Porter (uncredited)The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
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Rhythm on the Range
as Train PorterCowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he...
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I Was Framed
as Kit CarsonA reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
as Pullman Porter (uncredited)Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and...
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Chicken Wagon Family
as SamAddie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile...
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3 Men in White
as Phone Operator (uncredited)Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill...
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Pride of the Blue Grass
as Domino JonesA young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.
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Stormy
as Mack's Hostler (uncredited)A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.
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Rough Necking
as AnatoleThe Blondes and Redheads series, June's father forbids her to see her boyfriend, so she sneaks...
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Lady Tubbs
as RecklessA cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and...
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The Ghost and the Guest
as Harmony JonesNewlyweds Webster and Jackie Frye spend their honeymoon in a sinister old country house. Before...
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Polo Joe
as Harvey the Waiter (uncredited)A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl...
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Everybody's Baby
as Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to...
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Stablemates
as BookieA boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a...
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Bad Men of Missouri
as WashThe Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds...
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The Traitor Within
as MelroseIn this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who...
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
as JeffA 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for...
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Calling All Husbands
as NappyA henpecked husband and his bossy wife are due for a surprise when the wife's former boyfriend...
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Gentleman Joe Palooka
as Smoky - SecondIn the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators...
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Broadway Thru a Keyhole
as Gus - Rocci's ValetRacketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway...
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Sergeant Murphy
as Henry H. HenryAn Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
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Exclusive Story
as Man Threatened by Acello (uncredited)A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious...
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Gangway for Tomorrow
as HankFive defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from...
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Sweepstakes Winner
as Mose (uncredited)A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes...
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Unwelcome Stranger
as Pot Roast (as Sam McDaniels)Horse-breeder Howard Chamberlain has many superstitious quirks but his primary one is that he...
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Heart of Virginia
as 'Sunflower' JonesJimmy Easter is a jockey who gets shook up when he is responsible for the death of a fellow...
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Secret Service Investigator
as PorterLloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by...
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Am I Guilty?
as John D. JonesA young black doctor sets out to establish a free clinic in Harlem.
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Dark Manhattan
as Jack JacksonA low-level gangster determines to let nothing stand in the way of his gaining control of the...
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Two Hearts in Wax Time
as Deck Attendant (uncredited)In this MGM Colortone Musical short, a department store custodian who overindulges in drink sees...
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Contented Calves
as Eli - the PorterAn add campaign for stockings embarrasses the girls.
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Bargain with Bullets
as Police Capt. HolmesA gangster film about the Harlem underworld.
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I Love Lucy
as PorterCuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife....
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Amos 'n' Andy
as Customer (uncredited)A sitcom set in Manhattan's historic black community of Harlem.
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