Date of birth: 1915-10-22
Place of birth: New York City, New York, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
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1940-03-15
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t
1951-02-23
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experim
1960-02-03
Ma Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robb
1948-06-03
The romance of a rancher's niece and a rival rancher's son parallels that of a stallion and a mare.
1937-02-26
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns th
1952-05-08
Los Angeles is paralysed with terror when a lovesick murderer takes to the streets with a pair of ga
1943-03-19
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich
1943-07-04
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is simila
1945-12-01
An ex-cop is suspected of murder after he is found with a dead woman. The private detective is on th
1946-02-15
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the le
1948-07-14
After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released o
1949-07-22
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him
1938-05-20
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
1936-03-09
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for K
1962-10-01
Five passengers in a stagecoach are abandoned by their driver in the desert. Trying to survive, they
1945-12-31
Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show becau
1939-06-02
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a stud
1953-07-22
A honeymoon aboard an ocean liner is cut short when the bride finds herself suddenly alone, and unab
1941-12-19
When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist,
1949-01-20
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is run
1953-07-14
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the dis
1939-01-14
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn t
1940-08-10
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
1956-05-08
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his curre
1937-12-21
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winch
1938-07-27
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that
1939-04-04
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying
1939-05-05
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets de
1939-06-09
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modes
1939-06-30
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Mi
1937-07-22
A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a Euro
1948-03-10
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey
1939-08-31
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a wor
1939-11-10
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the M
1939-12-29
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls
1953-07-31
A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbe
1942-10-28
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World
1940-06-28
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the C
1940-01-11
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He
1950-02-17
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frus
1938-11-25
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a m
1936-06-19
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to lo
1952-01-23
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the par
1940-12-13
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New
1958-03-01
Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion mod
1942-10-16
During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines
1950-07-07
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
1961-07-12
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
1940-05-24
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
1938-08-05
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists th
1957-06-14
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
1939-12-08
In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
1940-08-30
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are un
1940-04-19
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then tur
1942-08-01
Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy
1943-07-03
This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie nev
1936-08-21
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed i
1942-03-27
US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful
1937-03-05
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealt
1941-12-25
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him
1938-03-11
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway prod
1941-03-28
When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan
1937-12-03
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Maske
1942-01-06
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get
1942-09-18
In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a
1943-01-24
In this documentary short film, a woman volunteer for the civilian aviation observer corps in World
1943-01-25
When naval Lieutenant Phil Bowen encounters his friend, Air Forces Captain Grover, he inquires as to
1944-03-14
In this World War II military training film, a B-25 crew bails out over the jungle, and the pilot is
1943-04-22
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant ra
1940-09-13
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoo
1943-03-01
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering
1949-12-02
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the
1936-05-23
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becomi
1945-12-09
In this documentary short film, a U.S. Army lieutenant instructs soldiers in how to prepare for new
1948-09-29
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still
1956-05-15
Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia
1942-05-29
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
1953-07-24
Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harb
1952-09-26
Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a
1946-02-01
In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until h
1941-03-14
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witn
1941-11-28
A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.
1945-12-25
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy i
1952-11-14
A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numb
1946-04-05
Three World War II fliers face financial obstacles threatening to ground their fledgling air-freight
1958-07-16
Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene Delambre, who t
1946-04-09
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even tr
1953-08-12
When selfish and arrogant millionaire Donald Carson fractures his leg during a desert vacation, his
1954-12-15
An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, y