Date of birth: 1886-08-08
Place of birth: Pinckneyville, Illinois, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
1946-04-16
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attem
1945-11-22
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, h
1932-05-25
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
1944-06-23
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead bo
1947-10-11
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy
1944-12-18
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him tha
1941-02-28
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized c
1945-04-15
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a ch
1950-03-01
A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
1941-08-20
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
1946-12-25
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return
1944-03-31
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings
1949-05-20
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the ti
1944-12-14
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply compl
1915-03-14
A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage,
1934-05-15
The Marshal sends John Weston to a rodeo to see if he can find out who is killing the rodeo riders w
1950-01-26
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy S
1944-10-27
Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. Aft
1946-04-25
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
1950-09-29
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is als
1938-02-25
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle i
1949-07-29
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an
1938-05-26
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the s
1946-08-09
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
1950-02-21
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married
1945-04-20
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an
1937-09-11
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.
1921-01-21
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a chan
1940-05-10
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story star
1946-02-14
Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.
1939-10-19
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme
1946-08-30
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede,
1942-04-24
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of sta
1940-12-20
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, G
1949-06-29
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
1950-08-10
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o
1935-10-04
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he be
1940-11-22
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and matern
1947-12-07
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
1941-12-27
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
1945-05-28
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.
1947-07-31
A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 2
1942-10-30
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter
1950-07-01
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. T
1941-11-20
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death
1943-08-12
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed i
1948-07-08
On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affec
1941-11-10
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the ene
1941-10-31
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitre
1951-03-12
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is
1949-03-04
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul
1946-10-25
In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive
1938-05-07
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from Ne
1946-11-11
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his
1943-11-27
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
1947-05-15
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by P
1950-09-28
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get wh
1946-01-28
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy phila
1938-06-09
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try
1935-12-10
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the d
1947-05-16
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with a
1945-06-20
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act
1945-10-05
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder
1951-08-29
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. The
1946-03-01
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
1946-12-31
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself
1949-04-30
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town societ
1946-09-06
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or th
1931-02-06
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy m
1950-08-19
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widow
1947-02-21
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but
1943-05-13
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C.
1951-08-15
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself
1945-07-27
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewi
1947-04-01
A medicine show pitchman investigates a small town murder in Arizona.
1950-08-24
Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman c
1949-06-06
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the myste
1941-12-25
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together