Date of birth: 1885-09-06
Place of birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Frank B. Fanning


1942-03-27
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify

1938-07-20
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming o

1937-06-30
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.

1938-03-03
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering mi

1936-11-06
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bri

1937-01-08
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sente

1932-07-08
A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers.

1933-03-04
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being releas

1939-01-05
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police C

1937-11-07
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for

1935-04-27
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he

1939-03-29
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentence

1934-09-11
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.

1942-07-24
Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge o

1933-01-28
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depr

1940-12-13
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New

1939-05-13
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform can

1946-04-01
A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of his

1932-08-27
John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the re

1937-08-18
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by w

1940-04-06
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow hi

1928-10-30
The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his enthusiasm h

1940-04-19
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then tur

1931-11-13
A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, f

1936-03-28
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a

1936-12-11
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the c

1941-07-18
Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the

1935-05-11
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a priso

1936-12-04
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting r
1929-03-02
Two competitive Scotsmen are neighbours. Trouble starts when a tax inspector announces his imminent

1935-10-08
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustra

1934-09-22
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his

1935-09-14
A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster'

1939-12-09
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a

1940-08-17
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

1934-05-26
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.

1945-09-01
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is pa

1937-05-14
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.

1942-05-08
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the l

1945-04-13
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding-

1941-11-28
A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.

1942-05-29
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector

1933-02-18
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed hi

1935-05-03
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store o

1918-02-03
The Lamb is a 1918 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It is believed to be lost.

1934-12-15
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her ir

1930-03-03
A Senator, accused of bribery on circumstantial evidence and sent to prison, decides to commit suici