Date of birth: 1889-04-05
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ben L. Taggart, Ben Taggert

Ben Taggart was an American stage and screen actor, his film career spanning the years 1915 to 1945.

1931-09-19
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.

1938-04-11
It's 1861 and Buck gets the business men of Sacramento to establish the Pony express. Hawley runs th

1931-08-29
A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beg

1936-03-09
Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater,

1942-07-25
Ex-con Red O'Hara becomes a daring news photographer, but his old ways get him into trouble.

1940-10-01
The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-M

1917-04-23
A centuries-lasting relationship between Ayesha and her oft-reincarnated true love. She, H. Rider H

1933-06-24
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson.

1932-01-02
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the

1939-12-22
A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death pe

1931-12-31
In the office of Mr. Lee, a talent agent, Zeppo bursts through the door, proclaiming to be a great m

1937-10-04
Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get

1937-05-15
A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of

1942-02-02
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find

1942-07-14
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

1938-06-03
A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.

1940-12-12
A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.

1939-06-10
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to creat

1938-12-29
Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to

1937-09-03
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave tra

1931-07-08
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pict

1937-09-10
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.

1940-09-17
Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating ag

1939-07-14
Charley buys a wreck of an automobile that's been made to appear new by a disreputable used car deal

1935-09-07
Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.

1938-05-13
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. C

1936-03-17
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for th

1939-06-12
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save

1943-08-01
Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is

1935-06-29
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

1935-04-20
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to

1942-02-05
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-

1939-03-08
Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman wh

1939-06-02
Super-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen "helps" him try to s

1939-10-19
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme

1944-02-24
In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just bro

1939-03-24
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

1939-10-26
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

1941-03-28
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

1940-12-31
When his brother Dave is put in jail, Bill Hickok returns to help him. Dave has been charged with at

1934-09-25
Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and yo

1933-03-10
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is

1932-08-19
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his

1940-01-08
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious maske

1934-05-25
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed f

1932-04-10
Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one o

1940-06-14
A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless ad

1941-06-26
Medico of Painted Springs was the first of western hero Charles Starrett's appearances as frontier d

1944-02-09
Song and comedy revue, featuring Western talents, along with a theatrical troupe taking their vacati

1940-10-26
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship"

1940-11-01
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join fo

1940-03-03
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship

1933-03-31
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis

1932-11-17
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taki

1932-03-05
Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when

1943-04-09
An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel

1933-06-30
Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidenta

1933-11-16
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of

1944-10-21
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit

1944-01-27
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work

1942-04-02
It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up pl

1941-03-06
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.

1941-10-23
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next doo

1942-09-22
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep be

1935-02-15
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves

1941-11-14
A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.

1942-06-11
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon sing

1942-01-06
A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, nea

1936-06-26
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days befo

1939-06-02
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand a

1939-08-01
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

1940-03-01
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

1942-03-05
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budge

1941-09-11
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play profession

1932-07-08
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a

1934-07-20
After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--

1915-09-15
When Bill Fowler decided to wed the wealthy widow, Isabel Dare, of Rye, N.Y., he gave a bachelor din

1936-02-01
In this MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series short, a radio and television engineer falls into a life of

1943-02-25
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway

1936-10-10
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is bro

1943-04-29
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th

1932-10-15
Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade

1939-12-01
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfacti

1938-01-16
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fia

1938-07-29
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him,

1940-08-15
The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starr

1931-07-02
Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film

1938-06-05
An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ign

1932-12-10
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled

1934-07-18
The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even

1919-06-22
George elopes with Lou Ellen, a judge's daughter, against the wishes of both their families. Simulta

1940-03-08
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voya

1941-10-17
Investigators crack down on a gang of nightclub con artists that has been victimizing wealthy bachel
1915-11-03
When he wasn't churning out "Curses, foiled again!" melodramas, playwright Owen Davis Sr. specialize
1915-09-01

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

1939-03-17
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice a

1941-01-16
A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of

1936-05-01
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears whil

1920-11-22
After screams from a beautiful house draw neighbors and the police, Victor Bailey is shot and wounde