Wallace Ford

Born: 1898-02-11

Wallace Ford (12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English-born naturalized American stage and screen actor. Usually playing wise-cracking characters, he combined a tough but friendly-faced demeanor with a small but powerful, stocky physique. Born Samuel Jones Grundy in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he spent his childhood in a Dr. Barnardo's home. At an early age he was adopted by a farmer from Manitoba, Canada, where he was ill treated. About age eleven, Ford ran away and did odd jobs, later becoming an usher in a theatre. Following his discharge from the Army after WWI, he became a vaudeville actor in a stock company before performing on Broadway. He started on a film career when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave him a part in the film Possessed (1931) and went on to appear in over 200 films, including 13 directed by John Ford. Wallace Ford is buried in an unmarked grave in Culver City, California's Holy Cross Cemetery. From Wikipedia.


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Harvey

as The Taxi Driver
Released: 1950-12-04

The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized...

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Freaks

as Phroso
Released: 1932-01-01

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his...

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Shadow of a Doubt

as Fred Saunders
Released: 1943-01-15

Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement...

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Warlock

as Judge Holloway
Released: 1959-05-15

A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the...

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Spellbound

as Hotel masher
Released: 1945-11-08

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital...

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The Man from Laramie

as Charley O'Leary
Released: 1955-08-19

Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who...

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Blood on the Sun

as Ollie Miller
Released: 1945-04-26

Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world...

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The Last Hurrah

as Charlie Hennessey
Released: 1958-12-31

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

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Dead Reckoning

as McGee
Released: 1946-12-31

War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for...

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Wichita

as Arthur Whiteside
Released: 1955-07-03

Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita...

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The Breaking Point

as F.R. Duncan
Released: 1950-10-06

A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.

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A Patch of Blue

as Ole Pa
Released: 1965-12-10

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her...

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The Furies

as Scotty Hyslip
Released: 1950-08-16

A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.

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The Mummy's Tomb

as Babe Hanson
Released: 1942-10-23

A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill...

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The Informer

as Frankie McPhillip
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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The Mummy's Hand

as Babe Jenson
Released: 1940-09-20

A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of...

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T-Men

as The Schemer
Released: 1947-12-15

Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt...

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Magic Town

as Lou Dicketts
Released: 1947-10-07

Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of...

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The Ape Man

as Jeff Carter
Released: 1943-03-05

A scientist is turned into an ape man.

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The Set-Up

as Gus
Released: 1949-03-29

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling...

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All Through the Night

as Spats Hunter
Released: 1942-01-10

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

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The Lost Patrol

as Morelli
Released: 1934-02-16

A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding...

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Crack-Up

as Lt. Cochrane
Released: 1946-09-06

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up,...

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Coroner Creek

as Andy West
Released: 1948-07-01

A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.

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The Rainmaker

as Sheriff Howard Thomas
Released: 1956-12-13

Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and...

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The First Texan

as Henry Delaney
Released: 1956-06-29

After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out...

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The Whole Town's Talking

as Healy
Released: 1935-02-22

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never...

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Destry

as Doc Curtis
Released: 1954-12-01

Western remake of "Destry Rides Again", starring Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Thomas Mitchell,...

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The Green Years

as Jamie Nigg
Released: 1946-07-04

An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to...

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Black Angel

as Joe
Released: 1946-08-02

A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up...

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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1988-11-22

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

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He Ran All the Way

as Fred Dobbs
Released: 1951-06-20

A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.

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A Lawless Street

as Dr. Amos Wynn
Released: 1955-11-15

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out...

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3 Ring Circus

as Sam Morley
Released: 1954-12-22

Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money and are looking for a job. They finally find...

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Skyscraper Souls

as Slim
Released: 1932-07-16

After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper,...

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She Couldn't Say No

as Joe Wheelen
Released: 1954-02-15

An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.

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The Beast of the City

as Det. Ed Fitzpatrick
Released: 1932-02-13

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his own corrupt brother Ed...

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The Spoilers

as Flapjack Simms
Released: 1955-12-23

In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their...

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Blues in the Night

as Brad Ames (as Wally Ford)
Released: 1941-11-15

A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds...

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Men in White

as Shorty
Released: 1934-04-06

A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his...

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She Couldn't Take It

as "Fingers" Boston
Released: 1935-10-08

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

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Lucy Gallant

as Gus Basserman
Released: 1955-10-20

A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas...

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Possessed

as Al Manning
Released: 1931-11-21

Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse...

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Absolute Quiet

as Jack
Released: 1936-04-24

Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant...

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Murder by Invitation

as Bob White
Released: 1941-06-30

The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can...

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The Rogues' Tavern

as Jimmy Kelly
Released: 1936-06-04

A mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night.

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The Matchmaker

as Malachi Stack
Released: 1958-07-23

Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with...

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The Cross of Lorraine

as Pierre
Released: 1943-11-12

French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a...

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Scattergood Survives a Murder

as Wally Collins
Released: 1942-10-01

Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.

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Employees' Entrance

as Martin West
Released: 1933-02-11

Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He...

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The Mysterious Mr. Wong

as Jason H. 'Jay' Barton
Released: 1935-01-25

Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the...

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Two in the Dark

as Harry Hilyer
Released: 1936-01-10

Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he...

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The Maverick Queen

as Jamie
Released: 1956-05-03

A Pinkerton detective goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of thieves whose boss is a feisty...

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The Nebraskan

as 'Mac' McBride
Released: 1953-12-02

War looms on the horizon when an Army officer's American Indian aide is accused of murdering a...

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Mary Burns, Fugitive

as Harper
Released: 1935-11-15

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a...

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Back Door to Heaven

as Frankie Rogers
Released: 1939-04-19

The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".

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The Great John L.

as McManus
Released: 1945-05-25

Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric...

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Bristle Face

as Emory Packer
Released: 1964-01-26

In the rolling, wooded hills of Tennessee in the 1920s, a 14-year-old orphan, Jace, comes to...

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Machine Gun Mama

as John O'Reilly
Released: 1944-08-18

Two Americans stranded in Mexico with an elephant try to sell their animal to a traveling...

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I Hate Women

as Scoop McGuire
Released: 1934-05-10

A reporter is frustrated with women after a string of failed relationships. But then he finds...

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Painting The Clouds With Sunshine

as Sam Parks
Released: 1951-10-10

The story of three gold-digging ladies searching for millionaires. A loose remake of Gold...

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The Wet Parade

as Jerry Tyler
Released: 1932-03-26

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the...

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Money Means Nothing

as Kenneth 'Kenny' McKay
Released: 1934-06-14

At Joe's Roadside, a popular but rundown New York roadhouse where the wealthy and not-so-wealthy...

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The Boy from Oklahoma

as Walter "Wally" Higgins
Released: 1954-02-27

A town despot makes a guileless patsy the sheriff, lives to regret it.

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Rendezvous with Annie

as Al Morgan
Released: 1946-07-22

A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip...

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Tess of the Storm Country

as Fred Thorson
Released: 1960-12-08

Fourth reworking of the classic Grace Miller White novel, this time updated to the 60s, with...

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O.H.M.S.

as Jimmy Tracy
Released: 1937-01-01

American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian...

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A Guy Could Change

as Bill Conley
Released: 1946-01-27

A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.

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A Son Comes Home

as Steve
Released: 1936-07-31

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

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Belle Starr's Daughter

as Lafe Bailey
Released: 1948-11-13

The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to...

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Isle Of Destiny

as Millard Barnes
Released: 1940-03-08

A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.

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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

as Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage)
Released: 2008-03-03

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of...

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The Nut Farm

as Willie Barton
Released: 1935-03-24

Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm,...

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Roar of the Press

as Wally Williams
Released: 1941-04-17

While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.

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Twilight for the Gods

as Old Brown
Released: 1958-08-04

An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.

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Headline Shooter

as Mike
Released: 1933-07-28

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

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The Great Jesse James Raid

as Elias Hobbs
Released: 1953-07-17

The famed outlaw is talked into saddling up for one more bank robbery.

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A Man Betrayed

as Casey ('Globe' newspaper reporter)
Released: 1941-03-07

Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove...

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The Big Cage

as Russ Penny
Released: 1933-05-01

A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions...

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Warpath

as Pvt. 'Irish' Potts
Released: 1951-11-22

John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He...

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One Frightened Night

as Joe Luvalle
Released: 1935-05-01

Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide...

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Central Park

as Rick
Released: 1932-12-10

Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get...

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Stagecoach To Fury

as Judge Lester Farrell
Released: 1956-12-13

A group of stagecoach passengers are held hostage by bandits waiting for a shipment of gold they...

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Rodeo

as Barbecue Jones
Released: 1952-03-09

Nancy Cartwright is determined to collect an $1,800 feed bill owed to her father Harry...

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Jericho

as Mike Clancy
Released: 1937-08-23

An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.

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A Woman's Man

as Joe Flynn - Prizefighter
Released: 1934-02-06

A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling...

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The Man from Texas

as Jed
Released: 1948-03-06

James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid,"...

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Night of Terror

as Tom Hartley
Released: 1933-04-23

The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion....

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The Hollywood Gad-About

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1934-10-04

A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as...

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Two Girls on Broadway

as Jed Marlowe
Released: 1940-04-19

Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical....

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On Stage Everybody

as Emmett Rogers
Released: 1945-07-13

Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

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My Woman

as Chick Rollins
Released: 1933-10-04

A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.

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Goodbye Again

as Arthur Westlake
Released: 1933-09-09

Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her...

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Shed No Tears

as Sam Grover
Released: 1948-06-09

A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance...

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Three-Cornered Moon

as Kenneth Rimplegar
Released: 1933-08-08

Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie,...

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Inside the Law

as Billy
Released: 1942-05-08

A gang of crooks wrestles with the temptation to rob the bank that they now manage.

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Dakota Lil

as Carter
Released: 1950-02-17

Female outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits.

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Stardust

as Peter Jackson
Released: 1938-03-25

Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is...

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Lover Come Back

as Tubbs
Released: 1946-06-21

A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.

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The Man Who Reclaimed His Head

as 'Curly'
Released: 1934-12-24

A writer discovers he's being used as a pawn by greedy businessmen.

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Johnny Concho

as Albert Dark
Released: 1956-07-01

In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!

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In Spite of Danger

as Bob Crane
Released: 1935-03-08

Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to...

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Swing It, Sailor!

as Pete Kelly
Released: 1938-02-04

Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore.

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Embraceable You

as Police Lt. Ferria
Released: 1948-08-21

Eddie, a small-time hoodlum is forced to care for Marie he accidentally hits with his car during...

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Red Stallion In The Rockies

as 'Talky' Carson
Released: 1949-05-02

Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...

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Secret Command

as Miller
Released: 1944-07-30

Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at...

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Hypnotized

as Bill Bogard
Released: 1932-12-25

A Gypsy violinist searches for her missing fiance, a circus worker who recently won a...

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Are You Listening?

as Larry Barnes
Released: 1932-03-21

WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of...

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Thunder Over Arizona

as Stiles
Released: 1956-08-04

Ervin Plummer-played by the estimable George Macready, who like his good friend Vincent Price...

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Flesh and Fury

as Jack 'Pop' Richardson
Released: 1952-06-26

Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired...

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Give Us Wings

as Mr. York
Released: 1940-12-20

Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop...

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Married in Hollywood

as Mitzi's Fan (uncredited)
Released: 1929-09-22

Heir to a Balkan throne, Prince Nicholai falls in love with an American vocalist who is touring...

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Another Face

as Joe Haynes, Press Agent
Released: 1935-12-20

The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his...

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Swellhead

as Terry McCall
Released: 1935-05-04

Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his...

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East of Fifth Avenue

as Vic Howard
Released: 1933-11-28

A kindly, elderly couple who run a New York City boarding house form the steady center around...

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Get That Man

as Jack Kirkland / John Prescott
Released: 1935-07-10

Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the...

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Scatterbrain

as Sam Maxwell
Released: 1940-07-20

A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie...

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X Marks the Spot

as Ted Lloyd
Released: 1931-12-13

The story begins in 1923 where after an accident, a newspaper reporter needs to raise $5,000 to...

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Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!

as Joe Redmond
Released: 1940-06-07

In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill...

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Climax!

as Bunco Kelly
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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Climax!

as Sheriff
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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Climax!

as Dr. Karl Wexdig
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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Climax!

as Samuel Cramer
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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The Andy Griffith Show

as Roger Hanover
First aired: 1960-10-03

The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and...

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Father Knows Best

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-10-03

Family man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three...

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Studio One

as uncredited
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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This Is Your Life

as Self
First aired: 1952-10-01

This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally...

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Screen Director's Playhouse

as Ed Rawlings
First aired: 1955-10-05

Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed...

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The Barbara Stanwyck Show

as Harry
First aired: 1960-09-19

The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from...

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The Deputy

as Herk Lamson
First aired: 1959-09-12

The Deputy is an American western series that aired on NBC from September 1959, to July 1961....

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The Deputy

as Marshal Herk Lamson
First aired: 1959-09-12

The Deputy is an American western series that aired on NBC from September 1959, to July 1961....

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The Great Adventure

as Uncle Billy Smith
First aired: 1963-09-27

The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964...

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The 20th Century Fox Hour

as Monty Smith
First aired: 1955-10-05

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States...

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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-10-06

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu...

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The Ford Television Theatre

as Talker
First aired: 1952-10-02

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to...

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Trackdown

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-10-04

Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS...

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Inner Sanctum

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-01-09

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The Wonderful World of Disney

as Emory Packer
First aired: 1954-10-27

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as uncredited
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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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Innkeeper
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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