Ralph Brooks
Date of birth: 1904-04-22
Place of birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Charles Emil Muller, Ralph Brooke, Ralf Brooks
Biography
Ralph Brooks was born on April 22, 1904 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for A Shot in the Dark, Strange Wives and The 3rd Voice . He died on April 15, 1991 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Movie Credits
Three Loves Has Nancy
1938-09-02
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically invo
Not as a Stranger
1955-07-01
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He cour
Lady Killer
1933-12-09
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Ho
Across the Pacific
1942-09-04
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-mart
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951-04-03
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
Criss Cross
1949-02-04
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband
On the Town
1949-12-08
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
1955-06-23
Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.
Pocketful of Miracles
1961-12-18
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady
My Man Godfrey
1957-10-11
The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfre
You're My Everything
1949-07-22
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him
He Ran All the Way
1951-06-20
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.
Appointment with a Shadow
1957-09-01
George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itse
Target Unknown
1951-02-08
World War II drama about members of an American bomber squadron who are captured and held prisoners
Houseboat
1958-11-19
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
Secret Beyond the Door
1947-12-24
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly
Flamingo Road
1949-04-30
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town societ
Dance Hall
1929-12-13
A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to
Three Husbands
1950-11-10
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--h
The Tattered Dress
1957-03-14
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young
The Lady Gambles
1949-05-20
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the ti
Too Late Blues
1961-11-01
Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the pa
Topper
1937-07-16
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to
A Shot in the Dark
1935-01-31
An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college.
While the City Sleeps
1956-04-19
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
Frisco Lil
1942-03-13
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her fat
Ivy
1947-06-26
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do
A Letter to Three Wives
1949-01-20
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is run
Mystery Submarine
1950-12-01
Posing as an ex-German medical officer, a U. S. Navy Intelligence Officer sets out to rescue a kidna
Strange Wives
1934-11-30
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
Torch Song
1953-10-01
Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952-12-25
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer,
Divorce American Style
1967-06-21
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world
Louisa
1950-05-31
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to dis
Sunday in New York
1963-11-13
An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce.
Sweet Smell of Success
1957-07-04
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his B
It Happened in Hollywood
1937-09-07
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Josette
1938-06-03
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the
The Nurse from Brooklyn
1938-04-29
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is
Zenobia
1939-04-21
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage
The Personality Kid
1934-06-06
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
The Naked City
1948-03-04
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon
Champion
1949-04-09
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who help
Here Comes the Band
1935-08-30
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an un
Caged
1950-05-19
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments
Shakedown
1950-09-01
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the succes
All About Eve
1950-11-09
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the re
Wife, Husband and Friend
1939-03-03
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husb
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939-02-17
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939-03-24
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until
Blondie Meets the Boss
1939-03-08
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods bos
Rose of Washington Square
1939-05-05
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets de
Second Fiddle
1939-06-30
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Mi
Gone with the Wind
1939-12-15
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof
Miracles for Sale
1939-08-10
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Tammy and the Bachelor
1957-06-14
An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional sout
That Mothers Might Live
1938-04-30
That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is
First Love
1939-11-10
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncl
There Goes My Heart
1938-10-14
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939-10-26
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Caught
1949-02-17
Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is lov
So You Want to Be a V.P.
1955-10-29
Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the
Trapped
1949-09-27
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he
Love Crazy
1941-05-23
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorc
It Came from Outer Space
1953-06-05
Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteori
You Can't Take It with You
1938-09-01
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K
The Great Gambini
1937-06-24
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, includin
Woman Against Woman
1938-06-24
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence
Sabrina
1954-09-01
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily runni
T-Men
1947-12-15
Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to
Woman in Hiding
1950-01-06
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
1940-12-24
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
I Take This Woman
1940-02-02
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's sug
Monsieur Verdoux
1947-09-26
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining inco
Libeled Lady
1936-10-09
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she f
The Saint Takes Over
1940-06-07
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the a
Saboteur
1942-04-24
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of sta
Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950-07-07
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
It's Always Fair Weather
1955-08-30
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. The
This Is My Affair
1937-05-28
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937-05-09
An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to t
Seven Sinners
1940-10-25
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale
Hired Wife
1940-09-13
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940-08-30
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash man
Kitty Foyle
1940-12-27
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's
Hazard
1948-05-28
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before h
One Night in the Tropics
1940-11-15
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'lov
Turnabout
1940-05-17
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants the
Red, Hot and Blue
1949-09-05
In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water w
Nothing But the Truth
1941-10-10
A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twen
Girl in 313
1940-05-31
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one
The Great Profile
1940-08-30
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore,
City of Chance
1940-01-13
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to
Champagne Waltz
1937-02-05
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its
Let's Do It Again
1953-06-16
Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alle
Music for Madame
1937-10-08
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks wh
Exposed
1947-09-08
A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
Diamond Jim
1935-09-01
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
The Girl on the Front Page
1936-09-26
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps br
Afraid to Talk
1932-11-17
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taki
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
The Jazz Singer
1953-02-14
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects
Crime of Passion
1956-12-28
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack
The Fleet's In
1942-01-24
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous
Emergency Landing
1941-03-07
A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pi
711 Ocean Drive
1950-07-01
A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a bet
Big Town Girl
1937-12-03
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Maske
Saturday's Millions
1933-09-30
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's fath
There's One Born Every Minute
1942-06-26
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-br
Brooklyn Orchid
1942-01-31
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
Over My Dead Body
1942-01-15
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a s
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
1942-09-17
A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which t
I Wake Up Screaming
1941-10-31
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitre
The Affairs of Susan
1945-07-08
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three form
The Unfaithful
1947-07-01
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defen
The Bigamist
1953-12-03
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of
The Rage of Paris
1938-06-09
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try
The Jury's Secret
1938-01-16
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fia
Three Secrets
1950-10-20
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California
Easy Living
1949-10-08
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
Repeat Performance
1947-05-22
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946
The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933-02-03
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
Fingers at the Window
1942-04-22
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparen
Only Yesterday
1933-11-01
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a
Dancing in the Dark
1949-12-02
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
1953-07-13
Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle
Homicide
1949-04-02
Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the cas
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
1961-06-11
Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.
Reign of Terror
1949-10-15
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacob
If You Could Only Cook
1935-12-30
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
The Fountainhead
1949-06-25
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite
Mystery Street
1950-06-23
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas
The Major and the Minor
1942-09-16
Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train
Always Together
1947-12-10
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical
Hold That Ghost
1941-08-07
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. The
In the Navy
1941-05-30
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tomm
Buck Privates Come Home
1947-04-04
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan g
My Woman
1933-10-04
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
White Tie and Tails
1946-08-30
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involv
Her Adventurous Night
1946-06-05
A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail.
Fog Over Frisco
1934-06-02
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of
Lonelyhearts
1959-03-04
Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he
Al Capone
1959-03-25
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Proh
Bachelor's Affairs
1932-06-26
A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided
Tender Is the Night
1962-01-19
1920s, the French Riviera: wealthy expatriate Nicole Warren's mental illness strains her marriage to
Nightmare
1956-08-20
Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and fi
Naughty Marietta
1935-03-29
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escape
The 3rd Voice
1960-03-05
Marian Forbes has been having an affair with her boss and when he drops her for another woman. In an
A Man Alone
1955-10-17
A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all th
Big Brown Eyes
1936-04-03
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detect
Hard, Fast and Beautiful
1951-05-23
When most people look at Florence Farley, they see a pretty teenager. But when Milly Farley looks at
Meet the Stewarts
1942-05-28
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
Black Angel
1946-08-02
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in
The Looters
1955-04-30
A rescue team is dispatched to look for the survivors of a plane crash in the Colorado Rockies. They
Hollywood Halfbacks
1931-12-23
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides tha
Kiss Me Kate
1953-11-26
A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of
Song of Scheherazade
1947-02-26
A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
Circumstantial Evidence
1935-03-30
A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then
Easter Parade
1948-07-08
On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affec
Banning
1967-12-13
A playboy golf pro, kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating, is forced to hustle for a living.
The Buster Keaton Story
1957-05-01
An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.
The Gilded Lily
1935-01-25
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her bes
The Hollywood Handicap
1932-08-10
1930s Thalians Club comedy.
Deadline - U.S.A.
1952-03-14
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.
You Never Can Tell
1951-09-23
Ex-police/army dog King inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. But someone poisons him fo
The Mississippi Gambler
1953-01-29
Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. H
After the Thin Man
1936-12-25
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, an
Rhubarb
1951-08-29
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. The
The Art of Love
1965-06-30
Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.
Boys' Night Out
1962-06-21
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred i
Smashing the Spy Ring
1938-12-29
G-Men in Washington break up a powerful spy ring and capture the ringleaders.
Forever, Darling
1956-02-09
Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So int
The Steel Trap
1952-11-12
Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday a
Vivacious Lady
1938-05-13
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzl