Johnny Downs
Date of birth: 1913-10-10
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: John Morey Downs, John Down
Biography
Movie Credits
Babes in Toyland
1934-12-14
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mort
Outlaws of Red River
1927-05-08
As a boy, Tom Morley, was forced to watch the killings of his foster parents and the abduction of hi
Your Own Back Yard
1925-09-26
Your Own Back Yard is a 1925 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was
Official Officers
1925-06-29
The kids in the tenements have no place to play except in streets where traffic is a hazard. Mickey
Better Movies
1925-11-01
The gang decided to go into the movie-making business, using all kinds of sets and props. There were
One Wild Ride
1925-12-05
The gang has a taxi, consisting of an old Model T with no engine, pushed by a horse. When the owner
Baby Clothes
1926-04-24
Mr. and Mrs. Weedle are desperate to find two babies, for their rich uncle has sent them money for y
Uncle Tom's Uncle
1926-05-29
The Gang stages their own revisionist version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in Mickey's barn. But Joe's mot
Shivering Spooks
1926-08-07
The kids are playing baseball when a man dressed in Middle-Eastern clothing comes out and tells them
War Feathers
1926-11-20
While on a cross-country train trip, the Our Gang kids drive the rest of the passengers crazy with a
Chicken Feed
1927-11-06
Chicken Feed is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was the 6
Pigskin Parade
1936-10-23
Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college footbal
All-American Co-Ed
1941-10-31
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insult
Adam Had Four Sons
1941-03-27
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After
Campus Rhythm
1943-11-19
Radio singer Joan Abbott, known as the "Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush", does not want to renew her contract
The Mad Monster
1942-05-15
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly
Coronado
1935-11-27
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crus
Penthouse Serenade
1941-05-05
A Soundie with Johnny Downs and Gale Storm.
Redhead
1941-05-21
A wealthy businessman's irresponsible son and a down-on-her-luck model enter into a marriage of conv
The Arizona Raiders
1936-06-27
After saving himself from hanging, Laramie Nelson saves Tracks Williams from the same fate. They the
Let's Get Away from It All
1941-05-19
A Soundie with Johnny Downs with Gale Storm.
Freckles Comes Home
1942-01-02
Freckles Winslow comes home from college and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on
Seeing the World
1927-02-13
In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe a
Forever Yours
1945-01-26
A young woman who has been stricken with infantile paralysis gives up hope and is trying to "will he
College Holiday
1936-12-19
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
Thrill of a Lifetime
1937-12-03
"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up betwee
Turn Off the Moon
1937-05-14
Department store owner J. Elliott Dinwiddy has waited ten years for the perfect astrological moment
College Scandal
1935-06-21
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French
Hold That Co-ed
1938-09-16
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football sq
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
1943-09-07
Four youthful cadets are implicated in a series of murders, and must attempt to clear themselves of
So Red the Rose
1935-12-20
During the American Civil War, Valette Bedford waits patiently for her husband Duncan Bedford, to re
Trocadero
1944-04-24
A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film per
Bad Boy
1939-07-10
Johnny Fraser leaves his mother in their small home town and sets out for the big city. He obtains a
Algiers
1938-01-16
Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resi
A Child Is Born
1939-12-07
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
Hunted Men
1938-05-27
Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club
Boys Will Be Joys
1925-07-25
Adults have the Pike and Coney Island amusement parks, so the rascals put up their own rides in a la
Slightly Tempted
1940-10-18
A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.
What a Man!
1944-01-31
Henry Burrows, timid, white-collar worker for the firm of Rankin and Phillips, returns to his bachel
First Offenders
1939-04-12
A crusading and reform-minded District Attorney gives up his position in order to open establish a f
The Trail of '98
1928-03-20
Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in
The Valley of the Giants
1927-12-04
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the g
Twilight on the Prairie
1944-04-30
In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begi
Clarence
1937-02-12
The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things,
45 Minutes from Hollywood
1926-12-26
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in p
Monkey Business
1926-03-21
An abused chimpanzee escapes from a zoo. On the run, he meets Farina, running away from home and his
Thundering Fleas
1926-07-18
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which g
Parents on Trial
1939-09-21
According to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory is
Melody and Moonlight
1940-10-10
Jane Frazee made her starring film debut in the Republic B-plus musical Melody and Moonlight. The pl
Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
1940-08-10
In this musical, a con man makes a good living by promoting bogus charity shows. He gets the communi
Swing, Sister, Swing
1938-12-16
In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for
Hawaiian Nights
1939-09-08
Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940-05-01
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abd
Moonlight in Hawaii
1941-10-09
Deciding to quit his singing act and become a tourist guide, Pete Fleming escorts wealthy Mrs. Floto
Sing Another Chorus
1941-09-19
In this musical, an idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds su
Behind the Eight Ball
1942-12-04
The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Caro
The High School Hoofer
1931-12-14
Leroy's dance is an eccentric one performed to the tune "Dinah", played to a fast, jazzy beat, and h
The Kid from Brooklyn
1946-03-21
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who
Laugh It Off
1939-12-01
Four former actresses decide to restart their careers by opening up a nightclub.
Dog Days
1925-03-07
The boys are showing off their dogs to each other when little rich girl Mary Kornman rides by in her
Red Pepper
1925-04-05
An ordinary day - so an eventful one - of Tom Katt, a young man who works as a drugstore owner's ass
Hills of Oklahoma
1950-06-01
In this remake of Gene Autry's 1942 "Call of the Canyon", Rex Allen, the newly-elected head of the c
The Fourth Alarm
1926-08-11
The rascals once again, now as a plumbers.
Column South
1953-05-20
In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause
Groom and Bored
1942-04-09
Johnny tries to keep his marriage a secret from his boss, who feels that matrimony interferes with b
Kiss and Wake Up
1942-10-02
To make his fiancee jealous, Johnny has a friend masquerade as a girl.
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935-11-20
Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number o
Honeymoon for Three
1941-01-18
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he
Cruisin' Down the River
1953-08-02
A New Yorker inherits an old river boat and decides to turn it into a night club while falling in lo
Harvest Melody
1943-11-22
Farmer Tommy and his girl Jane come in from the country for a night at the Hollywood Trocadero. Ther
The Virginia Judge
1935-09-17
Walter C. Kelly, Marsha Hunt, Stepin Fetchit
Blonde Trouble
1937-08-06
Fred Stevens is an aspiring songwriter from Schenectady who journeys to New York City, hoping to mak
The Gay Nineties
1942-04-15
Songs from the 1890s presented in a musical short.
Shootin' Injuns
1925-05-02
Many of the "Our Gang" kids are in their secret clubhouse - so secret that some wannabe members have
Bring Home the Turkey
1927-01-16
Habitually mistreated at the deceptively named Happyland Home Orphanage, the Our Gang kids find a lo
It's in the Stars
1938-08-15
Musical short about a fraternity and a sorority that call a halt to dating between their houses to i
Once Over Lightly
1938-12-17
The big Barber College competition between rivals Clipton and Beardsley is coming up and everything
Good Cheer
1926-01-09
On Christmas Eve, the Gang copes with hardships, helps capture a gang of thieves, and learns that Sa
Buried Treasure
1926-02-13
The Rascals take their homemade boat on a search for treasure and crash a movie set.
Strange Case of Hennessy
1933-12-08
An escaped lunatic poses as famed detective Silo Dance in this musical comedy mystery set in an old
Rhapsody in Blue
1945-06-27
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
The Crowd
1928-03-03
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start
The First Baby
1936-04-02
When a couple become parents for the first time, they discover grandmothers can be almost as demandi
Telling Whoppers
1926-12-19
Farina and Joe fib to the gang that they've beaten up the neighborhood bully. Later, they hear he's
I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
1941-11-24
A college girl (Bonnie Kildare) dreams of her boyfriend (Johnny Downs) as he sings her a love song.
Everybody's Old Man
1936-03-20
An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's c