Edward Nugent
Date of birth: 1904-02-07
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Eddie Nugent, Edward J. Nugent, Edward James Nugent
Biography
Edward Nugent (February 7, 1904 – January 3, 1995) was an American film actor. Born in 1904 in New York City, Nugent appeared in 81 films between 1928 and 1937. He subsequently had a second acting career on Broadway. Brooklyn USA (1941), the comedy Junior Miss (1942), and See My Lawyer (1939) were some of his best roles. His next career was as a television producer, writer, and director for American Broadcasting Company. As a child, he sang with the Metropolitan Opera. He died in San Antonio, Texas.
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42nd Street
1933-03-11
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to r
A Single Man
1929-01-12
Robin Worthington (Lew Cody), a middle-aged man attracted by a young woman, at first avoids her, the
Crashing Hollywood
1931-04-05
Crashing Hollywood is a 1931 Comedy short.
Our Dancing Daughters
1928-09-01
A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold-digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie f
Young Sinners
1931-05-17
The reckless son of a millionaire struggles to find a positive outlook on life, so he turns to a har
See You Tonight
1933-06-02
A society woman falls for a man she meets on the beach. The man decides to teach her a lesson by mas
Three Hollywood Girls
1931-01-04
Three young girls live together in a one room apartment just scraping by while dreaming of Hollywood
Pigskin Parade
1936-10-23
Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college footbal
The Star Witness
1931-08-22
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an inn
Ah, Wilderness!
1935-12-25
At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of g
Our Modern Maidens
1929-09-08
Young, vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting
This Day and Age
1933-08-25
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and
She Loves Me Not
1934-08-31
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a
A Fool's Advice
1932-02-20
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in t
Caliente Love
1933-03-09
Poor Walter Catlett messes up the wedding of Joyce Compton and, after botching his suicide attempt,
Lost in the Stratosphere
1934-11-14
Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a
Girl o' My Dreams
1934-11-16
A conceited college track star, used to being "big man on campus", gets a jolt when he loses an elec
Kentucky Blue Streak
1935-05-01
A nosy reporter (Nugent) befriends the dumb Coughlin and pushes the Governor to commute his sentence
Crooner
1932-08-20
Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.
College Humor
1933-07-05
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coe
Untamed
1929-11-23
In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan ups
Beauty for Sale
1933-09-01
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen
Clancy in Wall Street
1930-03-14
Clancy and MacIntosh are a pair of stock comedy Irish and Scottish plumbers who have been partners f
Prison Shadows
1936-07-17
A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.
A Man Betrayed
1936-12-27
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tr
Dance, Girl, Dance
1933-09-01
Vaudevillian Joe Pitt sweeps young Sally Patter off of her feet and steals the lovestruck girl away
A Girl of the Limberlost
1934-10-14
Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her fathe
Just My Luck
1935-12-30
Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his formul
The Harvester
1936-04-18
In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marria
Island Captives
1937-07-22
A murdered businessman's daughter is shipwrecked on a jungle island with the son of the man who kill
College Scandal
1935-06-21
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French
This Side of Heaven
1934-02-02
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
Night Nurse
1931-07-16
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training sh
Remote Control
1930-11-15
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
Baby Face Harrington
1935-04-12
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the po
Men Are Such Fools
1932-11-18
An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly the
Easy on the Eyes
1933-02-17
A Mack Sennett Talking Comedy, released through Paramount Pictures, starring Franklin Pangborn and f
Doughnuts and Society
1936-03-27
Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-fa
Two Minutes to Play
1936-11-02
Martin Granville Jr., a star track-and-field athlete, has intentions of going to Claxton College, bu
Local Boy Makes Good
1931-11-27
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and
A Case of Spring Fever
1940-02-03
Advertising short for Chevrolet combining live action and animation. The film relates the story of G
Man Of The People
1937-01-27
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
The Flying Fleet
1929-01-19
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Nava
Bright Lights
1930-09-21
A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tu
Girls Demand Excitement
1931-02-08
Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college wea
The Honor of the Press
1932-07-13
Cub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and the o
The Girl in the Show
1929-08-30
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when th
Up Pops the Devil
1931-05-19
The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been wo
Dancing Feet
1936-01-20
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate part
War Nurse
1930-11-22
Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.
The Bellamy Trial
1929-01-23
The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and
Skybound
1935-09-22
Captain John Kent is a pilot in charge of the border patrol. Two crooks who head up a smuggling oper
Bunker Bean
1936-06-26
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
Forced Landing
1935-12-02
In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers ar
The Vagabond Lover
1929-12-01
A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.
Behind Stone Walls
1932-03-15
Esther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affai
No Ransom
1934-10-07
In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teet
The Duke Steps Out
1929-03-19
Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he
The Lottery Lover
1935-02-05
A crew of young military-school cadets are enjoying their first weekend in Paris. Frank Harrington,
Loose Ankles
1930-02-02
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only recei
The Girl in 419
1933-05-26
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a
Uncle Jake
1933-05-04
The Past of Mary Holmes
1933-01-20
Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down s
Flirting in the Park
1933-08-18
A day at the park starts out well when two couples enter a boat race, but things start going south w
Fighting Youth
1935-11-01
A radical campus group persuades student Carol Arlington to lead a protest of a college's football t
The Big Game
1936-10-09
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
Strangers May Kiss
1931-04-04
After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casu
The Old Homestead
1935-10-05
A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.
Handy Andy
1934-07-19
A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national ch
Shipmates
1931-04-25
A sailor falls in love with the admiral's daughter but finds they can't marry because of his lowly r
Speed to Spare
1937-05-04
The champion race car driver Tommy Morton is the eternal rival to less-ethical speed king Larry 'Ski