Maurice Black
Date of birth: 1891-01-13
Place of birth: Queens, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Johnny Morris
Biography
Maurice Black (January 14, 1891 – January 18, 1938) was an American character actor known for his portrayal of mobsters. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1928 to 1938, when he died of pneumonia, four days after his 47th birthday. He was married to Edythe Raynore. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maurice Black, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Blondie Johnson
1933-02-25
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to c
Dark Streets
1929-08-11
Pat and Danny McGlone are identical twin brothers, rivals and competitors in everything they do, and
Little Caesar
1931-01-25
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Leaping Love
1929-06-22
Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.
Flying Down to Rio
1933-12-22
An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends
Framed
1930-03-16
Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years l
Steady Company
1932-03-13
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Cly
Elmer, the Great
1933-04-29
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wad
Smart Money
1931-06-11
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
1931-06-15
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated f
Laughing Irish Eyes
1936-03-04
An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
Exclusive Story
1936-01-17
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster be
The Firefly
1937-11-05
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her
Murder on the Campus
1933-12-26
A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the colle
Julius Sizzer
1931-09-06
After the success of "Little Caesar," "Public Enemy" and "Scarface," here is the inevitable parody,
Broadway Babies
1929-06-30
Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in
Ellis Island
1936-11-04
It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a
Live and Learn
1930-06-15
A jealous husband endeavors to reach his wife who is quarantined in an apartment with her former spo
Dancers in the Dark
1932-03-11
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, t
No Limit
1931-01-15
Theater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, a
Street of Chance
1930-02-08
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with th
Playing Around
1930-01-10
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich play
Numbered Men
1930-06-07
Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinald
Wake Up and Dream
1934-10-01
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
The King Murder
1932-09-15
A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is
Twin Husbands
1933-11-29
The wife of a businessman and his secretary attempt to trick her husband's double into impersonating
Show Girl in Hollywood
1930-04-20
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy director
The Carnation Kid
1929-03-02
It's a case of mistaken identity in this comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken for a
Show Folks
1928-10-20
Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault o
While Paris Sleeps
1932-05-08
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques C
A Shriek in the Night
1933-07-22
Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
1933-07-13
When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the
Let's Do Things
1931-06-06
Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
Stars Over Broadway
1935-11-23
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
Friends of Mr. Sweeney
1934-07-28
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to hi
Bride of Frankenstein
1935-04-20
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. F
Adventure's End
1937-12-05
Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuad
Under Strange Flags
1937-04-11
Not quite a western, not quite a historical drama, Under Strange Flags is a little bit of both, and
Three Legionnaires
1937-07-10
Set in the post-WWI days in the Siberian tank town of Skzavoskanoff, U. S. Army Sergeant Chuck Conno
Bonnie Scotland
1935-08-23
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't qu
The Daring Young Man
1935-07-17
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a
Ship of Wanted Men
1933-09-08
A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws
Lonely Wives
1931-02-15
A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law t
Scarface
1932-04-09
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots
I Cover the Waterfront
1933-05-19
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
The Runaway Bride
1930-05-04
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then sh
The Californian
1937-07-18
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing
The Sea God
1930-09-13
The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pac
The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
1933-04-15
Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
Marked Money
1928-11-11
Marked Money stars Junior Coghlan as the orphaned son of a seafaring man. His late father has left i
Captain Swagger
1928-10-13
Hugh Drummond goes broke living too high and turns to crime in order to pay his bills.
West of the Pecos
1934-12-27
Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.
Silly Billies
1936-03-20
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in t
Down to Their Last Yacht
1934-08-31
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sai
The Face on the Barroom Floor
1932-10-14
Bill Bronson is a likable young bank clerk, whose congenital thirst for liquor is kept under control
The Canary Comes Across
1938-01-26
A prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who looks li
Tiger Shark
1932-09-24
A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
Walking Down Broadway
1938-03-11
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway prod
The Front Page
1931-04-04
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer e
Night Flight
1933-10-06
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
The Game That Kills
1937-09-21
Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing mor
Half a Sinner
1934-06-01
A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
Renegades
1930-10-26
Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderl
Abraham Lincoln
1930-11-08
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining cha
The Keyhole
1933-03-25
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
Sixteen Fathoms Deep
1934-01-01
A sponge diver hopes to make enough money to buy his own boat and marry his girlfriend. A rival dive
Brothers
1930-10-19
Bob Naughton and Eddie Connolly are identical-twin brothers that were separated in infancy. Bob is r
Women Go on Forever
1931-08-15
In a New York boarding house, owner Daisy Bowman becomes romantically involved with new tenant Jake
Square Shoulders
1929-03-10
Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero,
Stowaway
1932-03-01
On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the adv