Thomas E. Jackson

Born: 1886-07-02

Thomas E. Jackson (July 4, 1886 – September 7, 1967) was an American stage and screen actor. His 67-year career spanned eight decades and two centuries, during which time he appeared in over a dozen Broadway plays, produced two others, acted in over a 130 films, as well as numerous television shows. He was most frequently credited as Thomas Jackson and occasionally as Tom Jackson or Tommy Jackson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thomas Jackson (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Dead End

as Police Lieutenant at Killing (Uncredited)
Released: 1937-08-27

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up,...

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The Thin Man

as Reporter (uncredited)
Released: 1934-05-25

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get...

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Scarlet Street

as Chief of Detectives (uncredited)
Released: 1945-12-25

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful...

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Gypsy

as Station Master (uncredited)
Released: 1962-11-01

Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June...

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The Woman in the Window

as Inspector Jackson
Released: 1944-10-25

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

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Manhattan Melodrama

as Asst. Dist. Atty. Richard Snow
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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Little Caesar

as Sergeant Flaherty
Released: 1931-01-25

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

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Beau Geste

as Colonel in Recruiting Office (uncredited)
Released: 1939-07-24

When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves...

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The Last Hurrah

as Man (uncredited)
Released: 1958-12-31

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield,...

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Crime Wave

as Bank Guard (uncredited)
Released: 1953-10-22

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him...

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Mystery of the Wax Museum

as Detective at Morgue
Released: 1933-02-18

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

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Doctor X

as Daily World Editor
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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Another Thin Man

as Detective (uncredited)
Released: 1939-11-17

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from...

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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

as Inspector Connors (uncredited)
Released: 1938-07-20

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by...

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Here Comes Trouble

as Chief McClure (as Thomas Jackson)
Released: 1948-03-15

A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover...

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Call of the Wild

as 'Tex' Rickard
Released: 1935-08-09

Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska...

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Union Station

as Detective (uncredited)
Released: 1950-10-04

Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union...

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City for Conquest

as Pep - Sportswriter (uncredited)
Released: 1940-09-21

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and...

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International Crime

as Commisioner Weston
Released: 1938-04-23

The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La...

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Phone Call from a Stranger

as uncredited
Released: 1952-02-01

Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one...

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The Guilty

as Tim McGinnis
Released: 1947-03-22

Two friends land in hot water when they begin dating twins and one of the women ends up dead.

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Women Without Names

as Detective Sergeant Reardon
Released: 1940-03-14

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused...

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It Conquered the World

as George Haskell
Released: 1956-07-14

An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human...

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24 Hours

as Police Commissioner
Released: 1931-10-03

A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her...

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Parachute Jumper

as Detective Lt. Coffey
Released: 1933-01-28

An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the...

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Nancy Drew... Reporter

as City Editor Bostwick
Released: 1939-02-18

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to...

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The Last Days of Pompeii

as The Lanista (uncredited)
Released: 1935-10-18

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

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Strictly Personal

as Flynn
Released: 1933-03-17

Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a...

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Dangerous Holiday

as Marty
Released: 1937-06-06

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

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Big Town Scandal

as Police Chief (uncredited)
Released: 1948-05-27

A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers...

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The Doorway to Hell

as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: 1930-10-18

A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues...

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Castle on the Hudson

as Seated Reporter on Train (uncredited)
Released: 1940-02-17

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

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Broadway

as Dan McCorn
Released: 1929-05-27

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and...

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Millionaires in Prison

as Warden Tom Hammond
Released: 1940-07-12

A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick...

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Hollywood Boulevard

as Detective
Released: 1936-08-20

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

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Special Agent

as State Police Commander's Assistant (uncredited)
Released: 1935-09-14

Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career...

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It Had to Happen

as Mayor's Secretary
Released: 1936-02-14

A poor boy rises to power in politics.

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Lady with Red Hair

as Mr. Frank Harper (uncredited)
Released: 1940-11-30

An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.

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Torchy Gets Her Man

as Henchman Gloomy (as Tommy Jackson)
Released: 1938-11-12

A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to...

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The Westland Case

as Detective Lt. Strom
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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Double Cross Roads

as Deuce Wilson
Released: 1930-04-20

Based on a novel by William R. Lipman

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A Fever in the Blood

as Peters
Released: 1961-01-28

A judge, a district attorney and a U. S. senator--each hoping to be elected the next...

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Tell No Tales

as Eddie (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-12

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could...

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A Fugitive from Justice

as Corkery
Released: 1940-06-15

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on...

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Circumstantial Evidence

as Detective
Released: 1945-04-20

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer...

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The Accusing Finger

as Lead Investigator Logan
Released: 1936-11-17

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself...

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Big City Blues

as Detective Quelkin
Released: 1932-09-18

An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his...

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Afraid to Talk

as Deputy Benchley
Released: 1932-11-17

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them...

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The Hidden Eye

as Insp. Delaney (as Thomas Jackson)
Released: 1945-08-31

A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused...

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A Son Comes Home

as District Attorney
Released: 1936-07-31

A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer.

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Myrt and Marge

as Jackson the Angel
Released: 1933-11-25

Myrt has a show chock full of talented performers that deserves to be on Broadway, but can't...

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The Lady in the Morgue

as Police Lieutenant Strom
Released: 1938-04-22

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

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You, the People

as Vote Counter
Released: 1940-11-30

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his...

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Blonde Alibi

as Lawyer Allen (Uncredited)
Released: 1946-03-01

Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered....

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The Guilt of Janet Ames

as (uncredited)
Released: 1947-03-06

A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his...

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The Avenger

as McCall
Released: 1933-08-10

A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had...

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The Fall Guy

as 'Nifty' Herman
Released: 1930-06-15

Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob....

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The Reckoning

as Ellis, the Detective
Released: 1932-02-15

Two young lovers caught up in the underworld decide to get out and go straight, but a gang...

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George White's Scandals

as Al Burke (as Tom Jackson)
Released: 1934-03-15

Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the...

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No Place for a Lady

as Captain Baker, district attorney
Released: 1943-02-11

A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder...

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Carnival

as Mac
Released: 1935-02-15

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

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The Face of Marble

as Inspector Norton
Released: 1946-01-19

The story of Dr. Charles Randolph, a scientist dedicated to deciphering the secrets of life and...

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The Preview Murder Mystery

as Detective McKane
Released: 1936-02-28

The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the...

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Big Town

as Police Chief Berkley
Released: 1946-08-23

A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.

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Escapade

as Bennie
Released: 1932-04-01

Upon release from the penitentiary, Phillip Whitney tells his friend, Bennie, that he is going...

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Meet Me at the Fair

as Billy Gray
Released: 1953-01-01

In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a...

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Law of the Tropics

as Det. Maguire
Released: 1941-10-04

Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the...

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The Escape

as Police Lieutenant
Released: 1939-10-05

An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is...

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Below the Deadline

as Pearson
Released: 1936-06-07

After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a...

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Just Before Dawn

as Walter Cummings (uncredited)
Released: 1946-03-07

In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is...

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The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

as Detective Yarnell
Released: 1943-12-09

The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.

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Stronger Than Desire

as Tom Thompson - Flagg's Investigator (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-30

An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

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The Jury's Secret

as Jackson, Editor
Released: 1938-01-16

A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her...

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The Case of the Curious Bride

as Toots Howardv
Released: 1935-04-13

After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in...

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Wanted: Jane Turner

as Lansing - Postal Chief (uncredited)
Released: 1936-12-04

Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.

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No More Women

as Detective
Released: 1934-03-03

Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find...

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Reform School Girl

as Judge of the Juvenile Court (Uncredited)
Released: 1957-08-01

A teen girl is thrown into reform school for refusing to squeal on her delinquent boyfriend...

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Valley of the Zombies

as Detective Blair
Released: 1946-05-26

A woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.

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Strange Justice

as Smith
Released: 1932-10-07

Socialite banker Henry Judson maintains his extravagant lifestyle by embezzling from his bank,...

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I Stand Accused

as Detective Gilroy
Released: 1938-10-29

Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a...

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A Man Betrayed

as Detective Ryan
Released: 1936-12-27

A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and...

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Good News

as Coach
Released: 1930-08-22

A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.

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Free, Blonde and 21

as Inspector Saunders
Released: 1940-03-28

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a...

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Why Girls Leave Home

as Police Captain Reilly
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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La Conga Nights

as Agent
Released: 1940-05-31

In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man....

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The Devil Plays

as Captain Brown
Released: 1931-12-15

A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder...

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Mystery of the White Room

as Sergeant Macintosh Spencer (as Thomas Jackson)
Released: 1939-03-17

A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.

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Blondes at Work

as Parker
Released: 1938-02-05

When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between...

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The Irish in Us

as Doc Mullins (as Thomas Jackson)
Released: 1935-07-31

A boxer and his policeman brother feud over a police captain's daughter.

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Behind the Mask

as Agent Burke
Released: 1932-02-25

A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.

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The Devil's Mask

as Det. Capt. Quinn
Released: 1946-05-23

A San Francisco airplane bound for South America crashes, and among the scorched debris is found...

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Let Them Live

as Foster
Released: 1937-04-25

A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.

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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

as Police Sergeant
Released: 1932-05-28

A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a...

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Fugitive in the Sky

as Dave Brandon
Released: 1936-11-28

Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline...

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The Mysterious Mr. Valentine

as Police Lt. Milo Jones (as Thomas Jackson)
Released: 1946-09-03

Janet Spencer is driving down a country road when one of her tires blows out. This seemingly...

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For the Defense

as Daly
Released: 1930-07-19

William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing...

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Unashamed

as Captain Riorden
Released: 1932-07-02

A debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover.

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How DOooo You Do

as Detective
Released: 1945-12-24

Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a...

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The Personality Kid

as Rankin
Released: 1934-06-06

An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.

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Blazing Across the Pecos

as Matt Carter
Released: 1948-07-01

This time the Durango Kid confronts an expert gambler.

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Name the Woman

as Frank Martin
Released: 1934-07-25

Directed by Albert S. Rogell. With Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson.

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She Couldn't Take It

as Spieler at Car Exhibition
Released: 1935-10-08

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the...

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Terror Aboard

as Capt. Derick Alison
Released: 1933-04-14

An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find...

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The Lawless Woman

as 'Paddy' Reardon
Released: 1931-05-05

Dancer June Page is charged with the murder of gangster "Honest Ed" Baker. Allan Perry, an...

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Crime Takes a Holiday

as Brennan
Released: 1938-10-05

A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of...

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Little Miss Nobody

as Dutch Miller
Released: 1936-06-05

A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

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Melody in Spring

as House Detective
Released: 1934-04-07

It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is...

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Girl from God's Country

as Poker Player
Released: 1940-07-30

Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse,...

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Alcoa Theatre

as Detective
First aired: 1957-09-30

Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate...

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