William Newell

Born: 1894-01-05


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High Noon

as Jimmy - Drunk with Eye Patch (uncredited)
Released: 1952-06-09

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail...

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The Lost Weekend

as Liquor Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: 1945-11-29

Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the...

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The Best Years of Our Lives

as Waiter at Bank Dinner (uncredited)
Released: 1946-12-25

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally...

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Last Train from Gun Hill

as Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: 1959-07-29

A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for...

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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

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

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The Outlaw

as Drunken Cowboy (uncredited)
Released: 1943-02-05

Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in...

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Make Way for Tomorrow

as Ticket Seller (uncredited)
Released: 1937-05-09

At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed....

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Escape from Fort Bravo

as Symore
Released: 1953-12-04

A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.

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Fury

as Service Station Owner (uncredited)
Released: 1936-06-05

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to...

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The Invisible Man Returns

as Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: 1940-01-12

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make...

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Pollyanna

as Mr. Hooper (Uncredited)
Released: 1960-05-19

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to...

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Wichita

as Bartender (uncredited)
Released: 1955-07-03

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

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Lady in the Lake

as Drunk (Uncredited)
Released: 1946-12-19

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But...

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Here Comes Mr. Jordan

as Murdock Handler (uncredited)
Released: 1941-08-07

Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on...

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Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

as Piano Player (uncredited)
Released: 1946-11-22

A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.

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The Sheepman

as Bartender (uncredited)
Released: 1958-05-01

A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself...

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Bombshell

as Lola's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: 1933-10-13

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

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Libeled Lady

as Divorce Detective
Released: 1936-10-09

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and...

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The Major and the Minor

as Ticket Agent #2 (uncredited)
Released: 1942-09-16

Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the...

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Phffft

as Workman (uncredited)
Released: 1954-11-10

Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves...

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City for Conquest

as Max's Lyricist (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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Keeper of the Flame

as Piggot
Released: 1943-04-01

Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.

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Let's Do It Again

as Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: 1953-06-16

Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her...

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Manpower

as Lineman at Cafe Counter (uncredited)
Released: 1941-08-09

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident...

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Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

as Jailbird
Released: 1960-01-21

Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus,...

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Who Was That Lady?

as Schultz (uncredited)
Released: 1960-04-08

In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding,...

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Good Girls Go to Paris

as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-20

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English...

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Three Girls About Town

as Laundry Man
Released: 1941-10-23

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

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Mister Cory

as Ned - Owner (uncredited)
Released: 1957-02-23

An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.

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The Missouri Traveler

as Pos Neely
Released: 1958-01-21

Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the...

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The Mandarin Mystery

as Detective Guffy
Released: 1936-12-23

Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.

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Our Miss Brooks

as Dr. Henley
Released: 1956-04-24

The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as...

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Public Deb No. 1

as Reporter
Released: 1940-09-13

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her...

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Adventure

as Barber #1 (uncredited)
Released: 1945-12-28

A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

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The Great Profile

as Reporter
Released: 1940-08-30

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John...

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He Stayed for Breakfast

as Waiter
Released: 1940-08-31

Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy...

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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

as Insurance Investigator (uncredited)
Released: 1940-07-05

Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a...

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The Lady Pays Off

as Bartender (as Billy Newell)
Released: 1951-10-04

The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas,...

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Young Man with Ideas

as Party Waiter (uncredited)
Released: 1952-05-02

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

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Here Comes the Band

as Greasy (uncredited)
Released: 1935-08-30

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by...

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Larceny on the Air

as Andrews
Released: 1937-01-11

A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose...

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The Housekeeper's Daughter

as Reporter
Released: 1939-10-26

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

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Bright Victory

as Todd the Bartender (uncredited)
Released: 1951-08-01

A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.

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Nick Carter, Master Detective

as Taxi Driver
Released: 1939-12-13

Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new...

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The Ghost Comes Home

as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Released: 1940-03-08

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea...

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Blondie Goes Latin

as Steward Ringing Chime and Crying (uncredited)
Released: 1941-02-27

Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the...

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Honolulu

as Second Interne
Released: 1939-02-03

Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner...

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A Tragedy at Midnight

as Swanson
Released: 1942-02-02

The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to...

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Louisa

as Movie Usher (uncredited)
Released: 1950-05-31

Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to...

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Rose of Washington Square

as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: 1939-05-05

Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband...

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Riffraff

as Pete
Released: 1936-01-03

Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired...

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All by Myself

as Price
Released: 1943-06-11

Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with...

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Happy Go Lucky

as Charlie Davis
Released: 1936-12-13

A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have...

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Second Fiddle

as Make-Up Artist
Released: 1939-06-30

Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back...

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Dangerous Holiday

as Solitaire
Released: 1937-06-06

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

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The Magnificent Rogue

as Stage Manager
Released: 1946-11-07

A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own...

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Slightly Dangerous

as Waiter (uncredited)
Released: 1943-04-01

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents...

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Bill Cracks Down

as Eddie 'Porky' Plunkett
Released: 1937-03-22

William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and...

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Miss Polly

as Hubert - New Postman
Released: 1941-11-14

A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity...

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Bowery Bombshell

as Detective Dugan
Released: 1946-07-20

Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck...

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A Night to Remember

as Police Photographer (uncredited)
Released: 1942-12-10

A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the...

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No Place for a Lady

as Toreador Club Waiter
Released: 1943-02-11

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

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Swanee River

as Bill, Stagehand
Released: 1939-12-29

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

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The Missing Juror

as Wally, Counterman (Uncredited)
Released: 1944-11-16

A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.

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Invitation to Happiness

as Waiter (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-07

An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.

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Absolute Quiet

as Bill Dahle (Uncredited)
Released: 1936-04-24

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

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A Man Betrayed

as Gabby
Released: 1936-12-27

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

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On Stage Everybody

as Mason (uncredited)
Released: 1945-07-13

Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

as Horace "Hank" Hawkshaw (uncredited)
Released: 1950-04-01

When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in...

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Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island

as Hank McGlaurie
Released: 1936-11-13

A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates...

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The Man Who Dared

as Police Sgt. Clay
Released: 1946-05-30

A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show...

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Mysterious Doctor Satan

as Speed Martin
Released: 1940-12-13

A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build...

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Young Widow

as Charlie (Uncredited)
Released: 1946-03-01

A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.

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Dangerous Blondes

as Attendant (uncredited)
Released: 1943-09-23

Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving...

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Hold That Woman!

as uncredited
Released: 1940-06-28

A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc.,...

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Ice-Capades

as Harry Stimson
Released: 1941-08-19

Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he...

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Second Chance

as Pinky
Released: 1947-07-18

Jewel thieves battle investigators.

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Sitting on the Moon

as Mike
Released: 1936-09-11

A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically...

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Here Come the Marines

as Maj. Desmond
Released: 1952-06-29

After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him....

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Inflation

as Jerry the Man Wanting to Buy Car (uncredited)
Released: 1942-01-01

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

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The Invisible Killer

as Det. Sgt. Pat Dugan
Released: 1939-11-14

Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her...

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Fired Wife

as Bartender
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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Her Lucky Night

as Proprietor
Released: 1945-02-09

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

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Slander House

as Terry Kent
Released: 1938-10-04

Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger,...

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Get Hep to Love

as Janitor
Released: 1942-10-02

Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting...

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Wedding Bills

as Groom-to-be (uncredited)
Released: 1940-11-13

Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and...

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Philo Vance's Secret Mission

as Deputy (uncredited)
Released: 1947-08-30

Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime...

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Navy Born

as Lt. Bill Lyons
Released: 1936-06-02

A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy,...

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Devil Pays Off

as Second Steward
Released: 1941-11-10

A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the...

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Naughty But Nice

as Arranger (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-23

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and...

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The Voice of Bugle Ann

as Mr. Tanner
Released: 1936-02-15

A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan)...

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Key Witness

as Smiley
Released: 1947-10-09

A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.

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The Doctor Takes a Wife

as Soda Jerk (uncredited)
Released: 1940-04-25

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual...

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Alias Mr. Twilight

as Delivery Man (uncredited)
Released: 1946-12-24

Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing...

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Honeymoon Limited

as Cop (uncredited)
Released: 1935-07-01

A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a...

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The Day the Bookies Wept

as Maxie T. Bookmaker (uncredited)
Released: 1939-09-13

A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.

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Wedlock Deadlock

as Dick
Released: 1947-12-18

Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house...

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Rendezvous

as Carter's Receptionist (uncredited)
Released: 1935-10-25

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

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Honeymoon Lodge

as Bartender
Released: 1943-07-23

Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and...

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Rhythm in the Clouds

as Clyde Lyons
Released: 1937-06-21

Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.

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All About Hash

as Alfalfa's Father
Released: 1940-03-30

Mickey's parents are constantly quarreling because his mother serves hash every Monday night....

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Top Man

as Secretary
Released: 1943-09-17

In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his...

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Bulldog Edition

as Charlie Hunter
Released: 1936-09-13

Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious...

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The Great Morgan

as Film Character (uncredited)
Released: 1945-01-01

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does...

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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

as Clerk
Released: 1942-12-09

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought...

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Everybody's Baby

as Waiter (uncredited)
Released: 1939-03-24

The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to...

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Sing a Jingle

as Wiggins
Released: 1944-01-07

In Sing a Jingle, Allan Jones plays popular radio crooner Roy King, who goes to work in a war...

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Song of My Heart

as Doorman
Released: 1948-01-31

The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.

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The Fugitive

as Judge
First aired: 1963-09-17

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route...

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The Andy Griffith Show

as Fred Sterling
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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The Beverly Hillbillies

as Guard #1
First aired: 1962-09-26

Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells...

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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Sam Peterson
First aired: 1962-09-20

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of...

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Mr. Fescue
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Second Bank Teller
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Charlie
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

as Desk Clerk (uncredited)
First aired: 1957-11-06

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen one-hour specials airing occasionally from...

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