Date of birth: 1902-11-08
Place of birth:
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Franklyn Parker

1937-12-24
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an

1938-03-28
Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentr

1949-05-05
In this remake of and using stock-footage from 1941's "Arizona Cyclone," Tex is a daredevil freight-

1951-03-14
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.

1949-03-21
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime bo

1949-10-26
A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.

1931-02-06
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags h

1931-09-26
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a se

1931-07-19
Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may

1936-05-02
Johnny Dime has aspiration of becoming a "G-Man" , gums up the work of Rogan, an actual government a

1948-03-25
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the countr

1934-12-21
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.

1937-12-31
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, wil

1934-04-20
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. Mo

1938-12-28
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sa

1938-07-16
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville an

1945-09-29
The story involves a rather odd flashback by Dale who is visiting El Dorado, home of her grandmother

1937-07-04
Bob Adams, ace newsreel cameraman, is told by his boss, "Get the picture---we can't screen alibis."

1939-06-07
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.

1939-08-17
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unj

1939-10-07
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say pre

1936-02-28
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. A

1936-06-05
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the

1940-01-11
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He

1946-12-20
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents ri

1936-08-20
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of

1937-11-11
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But F

1936-10-09
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she f

1937-02-10
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his l

1940-12-13
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in.

1932-07-13
Cub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and the o

1942-10-01
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Pro

1938-10-25
The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gan

1941-09-11
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play profession

1933-01-20
Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down s

1946-04-16
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attem

1951-10-01
As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those

1934-08-31
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to div

1943-09-29
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

1937-12-10
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a l

1938-03-11
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway prod

1936-08-01
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.

1951-04-12
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranc

1934-06-08
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of

1938-05-06
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel B

1945-12-07
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat

1932-01-14
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metr

1933-10-25
A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nons

1933-12-15
Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process se

1935-03-22
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help

1938-08-19
Jim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they g

1952-06-26
Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight m

1938-09-16
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pi

1944-05-05
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star