Date of birth: 1915-10-21
Place of birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Rod Bell

1961-11-01
A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unoffic

1958-01-21
Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural

1955-12-01
A marine biologist and a government agent investigate mysterious deaths and rumors of a sea monster
1951-01-03
Joe MacDoakes' next-door neighbor, Marvin, comes over to help him fix his lawn-sprinkling system, bu

1946-05-01
A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.

1951-12-06
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.
1950-08-19
Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how.

1959-12-01
A manic young radio network employee enlists in the army at the end of WWII and finds himself the on

1963-03-27
Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get rem

1958-10-01
Celebrated detective traces and finds beneficiaries to the will of a gold prospector murdered by bus

1951-01-02
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.

1954-10-01
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career

1947-06-01
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he s

1954-09-30
Hospitalized Eric Loudermilk Potts tells his story to a golddinging nurse. He's a bridegroom who mis

1949-09-08
Joe's fiance doesn't like his obsession for chasing fire engines.

1945-12-25
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kit

1945-11-27
An angel returns to Earth to help a Broadway producer put on a show, so a struggling young actress w

1942-01-15
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Compan
1951-11-10
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.

1953-03-30
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to

1950-09-16
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on t

1952-05-02
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

1950-07-15
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the noto

1948-06-13
Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy.

1949-11-04
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a t

1951-10-10
Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from

1952-08-02
When a wristwatch intended for a office contest winner gets mixed up and confused with the one Joe M

1947-12-31
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Pre

1960-06-23
A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.

1958-05-16
Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut

1945-08-17
George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight
1953-05-23
Joe and Alice buy a television set and, due to some excuse, or another, the neighbors begin to drop
1954-10-30
Joe and Alice decide to rent a room in their house to their neighbor Marvin, who says he is a potato
1952-09-20
Joe McDoakes' dimwit neighbor Marvin becomes a dentist, and manages to convince poor Joe to let him
1951-06-02
Joe McDoakes, ever obliging and always helpful, volunteers to hang the new wallpaper for his wife.