Guy Usher
Date of birth: 1883-05-08
Place of birth: Mason City, Iowa, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: James Guy Usher
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Guy Usher (May 9, 1883 – June 16, 1944) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 190 films between 1932 and 1943.
Movie Credits
Buck Rogers
1977-01-01
Edited version of the 1939 Universal serial "Buck Rogers." A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers a
Sophie Lang Goes West
1937-09-10
Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942-03-27
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify
Rough Riders' Round-up
1939-03-13
Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a loc
Clear All Wires!
1933-02-24
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports
Hell Bent for Love
1934-05-19
As a result of arresting a nightclub singer, Millie Garland, for speeding, Tim Daley, of the Califor
Voice in the Night
1934-04-06
Tim Dale is the son of the president of a big-city telephone company and quits his job following a d
It's a Gift
1934-11-30
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the groc
Charlie Chan at the Opera
1936-12-04
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting r
The Devil Bat
1940-12-13
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have
Lady for a Night
1942-01-05
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into h
Mutiny on the Body
1939-02-10
Two harried businessmen, owners of a corset company, decide to go to a sanitarium for some rest and
Boots and Saddles
1937-10-04
Young Englishman inherits ranch which he wants to sell, but Gene's gonna turn him into a real wester
The Mummy's Tomb
1942-10-23
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all
Elmer, the Great
1933-04-29
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wad
The Spanish Cape Mystery
1935-10-09
Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
Rendezvous
1935-10-25
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
The Nuisance
1933-06-03
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving
Queen of the Yukon
1940-08-26
The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who
Borrowed Hero
1941-12-05
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
Atlantic Adventure
1935-08-25
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is wo
King of Hockey
1936-12-19
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
Boy of the Streets
1938-01-08
Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.
Under Western Stars
1938-04-20
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his d
No Greater Sin
1941-08-29
The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s
Fast Workers
1933-03-10
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is
Justice of the Range
1935-05-25
The McLean and Brennan ranches are both losing cattle to rustlers and each blames the other when cat
Romance of the Limberlost
1938-06-16
An orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost by her aunt, who hates her because the girl's mot
Prison Break
1938-07-12
Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemp
Crashing Through Danger
1938-09-14
Three electrical linemen work through the hazardous conditions of the Depression Era. Sparks fly, an
The Missing Guest
1938-08-12
Newspaper man "Scoop" Hanlon is looking for a way out of his assigned women's interest column. The o
King of Chinatown
1939-03-17
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice a
The Hell Cat
1934-06-16
Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a
Thunder Below
1932-06-17
Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan f
Big Brown Eyes
1936-04-03
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detect
Elinor Norton
1934-11-02
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wi
Wolf Call
1939-05-22
A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural
The Mystery Man
1935-02-12
Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating a wo
Whistling in the Dark
1933-01-21
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist the
Lilly Turner
1933-05-13
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a car
Spendthrift
1936-07-22
A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (
The Goose and the Gander
1935-09-21
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romanti
Sutter's Gold
1936-03-01
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Grand Exit
1935-10-25
A Stumped insurance company is forced to re-hire the most expensive, most big-headed, but best arson
The Case of the Black Cat
1936-10-31
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wil
Stage Mother
1933-09-29
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls eve
Pirates of the Skies
1939-01-01
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until
Face in the Sky
1933-01-15
Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side.
Buck Rogers
1939-04-10
Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught
Union Pacific
1939-05-05
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad acro
Invitation to Happiness
1939-06-07
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
1939-08-01
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poi
Missing Evidence
1939-12-15
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself up
West of Cimarron
1941-12-15
The Mesquiteers return to Texas after the Civil War to find Army carpetbaggers fighting the local bu
Postal Inspector
1936-08-16
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
Danger Ahead
1940-01-22
The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold sh
Fury
1936-06-05
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the
Timber Stampede
1939-06-29
Cattlemen fight corrupt railroad men out to destroy the forest.
Robbers of the Range
1941-04-17
Railroad agents frame a landowner who wont sell out to them.
Rovin' Tumbleweeds
1939-11-16
Rancher Autry takes a job singing on the radio to aid farmers and ranchers whose lands were destroye
Make a Million
1935-07-24
A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to p
The President's Mystery
1936-09-28
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Fra
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940-02-22
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lin
Once a Doctor
1937-01-23
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster
Time Out for Romance
1937-02-10
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his l
The Green Hornet
1940-01-08
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious maske
City Streets
1938-07-01
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle"
I Take This Oath
1940-05-20
The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.
Doomed to Die
1940-08-12
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (ca
Law Beyond the Range
1935-02-15
Tim is dismissed from the Rangers for letting his friend Kane who is accused of murder escape. When
Laughing at Danger
1940-08-12
Frankie Kelly, pageboy at the beauty salon ran by Madam Celeste, and his helper Jefferson find the r
The Bandit Trail
1941-10-10
A cowboy turns bad for revenge, but can't stomach his new evil ways.
I Was Framed
1942-04-04
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
The Old Wyoming Trail
1937-11-08
In an effort to compete with Republic's popular songfest Westerns, fours music numbers -- including
Lost Canyon
1942-12-18
Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his
White Bondage
1937-08-05
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
Hold That Woman!
1940-06-28
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or
Life Begins at Forty
1935-03-22
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to to
King of the Zombies
1941-05-14
During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off co
Chinatown Squad
1935-05-31
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
Little Big Shot
1935-09-07
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
All of Me
1934-02-01
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend does
Bad Men of the Hills
1942-08-13
U.S. Marshal Dave Upjohn arrives in Sundown to investigate reports of lawlessness.
Ridin' on a Rainbow
1941-01-24
When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accompli
The Great Train Robbery
1941-02-28
Tom Logan is a railroad detective who takes it upon himself to halt the activities of his crooked br
King of Dodge City
1941-08-14
The story takes place in Kansas, just after the Civil War. Wild Bill Hickok is summoned from Dodge C
Dinky
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
Pardon My Gun
1942-12-01
In this western, a rancher is ambushed, killed, and robbed, but for some reason the killers through
Man from Cheyenne
1942-01-16
Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he gr
In Old California
1942-05-31
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt D
The Avenging Rider
1943-05-20
Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold.
Big Town Girl
1937-12-03
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Maske
Off the Record
1939-01-21
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go
The Go-Getter
1937-05-22
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Mills of the Gods
1934-12-15
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her ir
The Penguin Pool Murder
1932-12-09
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker G
State Police
1938-03-18
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
The Mighty Treve
1937-01-17
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
Hold 'Em Yale
1935-04-27
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that
Baby Take a Bow
1934-06-30
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves
Highway West
1941-08-07
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Marked Woman
1937-04-10
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangste
China Clipper
1936-08-11
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
The Merry Frinks
1934-05-26
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
Dangerous Waters
1936-02-10
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an a
Midnight Intruder
1938-02-06
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son
Penthouse
1933-09-08
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been u
Planet Outlaws
1953-01-01
A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspe
Naughty Marietta
1935-03-29
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escape
Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933-02-18
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed hi
Little Miss Roughneck
1938-01-23
Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, J
Passport to Alcatraz
1940-06-06
George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens wh
Flirting with Danger
1934-12-01
Three brash and cocky powder mixers are sent to South America to work at a dynamite plant there.
Michael O'Halloran
1937-05-15
A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of
Two for Tonight
1935-09-12
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
Ann Carver's Profession
1933-05-26
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshado
Upperworld
1934-04-28
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably un
The Big Brain
1933-08-04
A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As h