Don Costello
Date of birth: 1901-09-05
Place of birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Eldon Lawrence Costello
Biography
A Broadway stage actor, Costello entered films in 1935 and in 1939 was put under contract with MGM. Known for his wicked sense of humor, Costello often times played the role of a menace or a tough guy. Date of Death 24 October 1945, Hollywood, California
Movie Credits
Johnny Eager
1941-12-09
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Another Thin Man
1939-11-17
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a
A-Haunting We Will Go
1942-08-07
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins
Air Raid Wardens
1943-04-04
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs
The Blue Dahlia
1946-04-16
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attem
The Red Dragon
1945-08-01
Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941-08-07
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the jo
Texas Masquerade
1944-02-08
A young Eastern lawyer, seriously injured in a stage holdup, secures the help of Hoppy, California a
Mystery Man
1944-05-31
Hoppy's ranch is threatened by rustlers. Hoppy and the gang oblige as usual.
Along Came Jones
1945-07-19
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it woul
Whistling in the Dark
1941-08-08
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenou
Crime Doctor
1943-06-22
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to bec
A Night to Remember
1942-12-10
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect
Unholy Partners
1941-11-01
A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.
Just Off Broadway
1942-08-28
Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murd
Sleepers West
1941-03-14
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witn
Truck Busters
1943-01-28
An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked truckin
I'll Wait for You
1941-05-16
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
Murder on the Waterfront
1943-09-18
A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation.
Wildcat Bus
1940-08-23
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
Ride on Vaquero
1941-04-18
The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by
Last of the Duanes
1941-09-26
Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to aveng
Crime of the Century
1946-02-28
Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a
Hot News Margie
1931-11-27
Margie is a reporter on a tabloid newspaper. Her assignment is to find out whether there is any trut
Joe Smith, American
1942-02-01
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a
The Whistler
1944-03-30
A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. Bu
Marshal of Laredo
1945-10-06
Substituting for Allan Lane, who'd been called away to active military service, Bill Elliot stars in
Great Stagecoach Robbery
1945-02-15
In this western, Red Ryder tries to be a good example for a young man who idolizes his father, an ou
Sundown Jim
1942-03-27
US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful
A Lady Takes a Chance
1943-08-19
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her ci
Incendiary Blonde
1945-07-25
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York n
One Crowded Night
1940-08-09
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky mot
Follow That Woman
1945-12-14
A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
1939-12-01
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfacti
Here Come the Co-Eds
1945-02-02
Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publi