Adrian Morris
Date of birth: 1907-01-12
Place of birth: Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Adrian Michael Morris, Michael Morris
Biography
Adrian Michael Morris (January 12, 1907 – November 30, 1941) was an American actor of stage and film, and a younger brother of Chester Morris. As a child, Morris performed with his family in a vaudeville act. In his short 10-year career as a Hollywood character actor, he appeared in over 70 films, including Dirigible (1931), Me and My Gal (1932), Bureau of Missing Persons (1933), The Big Shakedown (1934), The Fighting Marines (1935), The Petrified Forest (1936), There Goes the Groom (1937), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Gone With the Wind (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and Blood and Sand (1941).
Movie Credits
The Grapes of Wrath
1940-03-15
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t
Christmas in July
1940-10-25
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the g
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938-11-26
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matu
Poppy
1936-06-17
Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff
One Frightened Night
1935-05-01
Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide his mo
The Petrified Forest
1936-02-08
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day pennil
The Mayor of Hell
1933-06-24
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson.
If I Were King
1938-09-28
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his
Pier 13
1940-08-08
A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling
You and Me
1938-06-01
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in
The Fighting Marines
1935-11-22
Corporal Larry Grant and Sergeant "Mac" McGowan, of the United States Marine Corps, are rival for th
My American Wife
1936-08-06
Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, whe
Age of Indiscretion
1935-05-10
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert
Dr. Socrates
1935-10-19
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed d
Her Husband Lies
1937-03-13
J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler S
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
1940-12-19
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyll
The Age for Love
1931-10-17
A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and
The Woman I Love
1937-04-15
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
The Big Shakedown
1934-01-06
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate kn
6,000 Enemies
1939-06-09
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery char
Blood and Sand
1941-05-30
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who neverth
Wall Street Cowboy
1939-08-06
When his ranch falls on hard times, Cowboy Roy Roger has trouble making his mortgage payment and he
Radio Patrol
1937-10-03
About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting
West Point of the Air
1935-03-23
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
King for a Night
1933-12-09
A cocky prizefighter on his way to the bigtime in New York comes crashing down when his sister is in
Tail Spin
1939-02-19
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however,
Union Pacific
1939-05-05
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad acro
The Return of the Cisco Kid
1939-04-28
In Arizona a young woman who's being manipulated by an evil businessman is helped by the Cisco Kid w
Rose of Washington Square
1939-05-05
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets de
Gone with the Wind
1939-12-15
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof
Coast Guard
1939-08-04
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Br
Chicken Wagon Family
1939-08-10
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam
The Cisco Kid and the Lady
1939-12-29
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the chil
Lucky Cisco Kid
1940-06-28
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the C
Fly By Night
1942-01-19
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out t
Me and My Gal
1932-12-04
Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
The Return of Frank James
1940-08-10
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
Castle on the Hudson
1940-02-17
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Florian
1940-06-05
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by
Girl in 313
1940-05-31
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one
Let’s Be Ritzy
1934-05-01
Complications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not.
There Goes the Groom
1937-10-29
After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed.
Belle Starr
1941-09-12
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam
Bureau of Missing Persons
1933-09-16
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police wor
The Pursuit of Happiness
1934-09-27
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in l
Powdersmoke Range
1935-09-27
Three cowboys buy a ranch but have to fight off gunmen to keep it.
Rose Bowl
1936-11-30
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; P
Every Day's a Holiday
1937-12-18
When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she
Tear Gas Squad
1940-05-04
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
Stranded
1935-06-29
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Wild Boys of the Road
1933-10-07
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's f
$1,000 a Touchdown
1939-10-04
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each to
Public Deb No. 1
1940-09-13
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoo
3 Kids and a Queen
1935-10-21
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subseq
'G' Men
1935-05-04
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused
Dirigible
1931-02-01
Dirigible commander Jack Braden and Navy pilot 'Frisky' Pierce fight over the glory associated with