Date of birth: 1915-11-20
Place of birth: Shelton, Washington, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Thomas Ralph Potts


1939-03-08
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods bos

1941-08-15
A story about a scientist who is obsessed with communicating with the dead.

1941-10-12
A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who i

1939-01-28
Four flying G-Men protect America against enemy spies; one of the four assumes the identity of The B

1942-09-16
Low on funds, working-class girl Susan Applegate disguises herself as a youngster in order to pay ha

1940-01-19
In this satire of the Nazis the Stooges are wallpaper hangers in the country of Moronica. When evil

1939-06-16
A millionaire vacationing in Mexico falls for a local girl and sets out to win her.

1940-03-22
Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.

1940-06-28
A jewel thief uses Buster as an unsuspecting dupe.

1943-09-24
The Three Stooges, as the Wrong Brothers, aid the war effort by inventing a new plane in this below-

1939-05-04
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After se

1940-12-27
The stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping from

1940-05-20
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of reveng

1939-10-06
Once again, the Stooges are three hapless tramps. After nearly destroying a farmer's (Richard Fiske)

1940-03-08
The stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses ru

1939-07-28
An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.

1942-05-29
Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.

1938-10-21
Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The

1939-07-21
When Pegleg and his Black Raiders threaten the westward expansion of the United States, the governme

1940-05-02
Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.

1939-08-30
A long-standing feud between a rancher and a neighboring wheat farmer only intensifies after the ran

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

1938-09-30
At an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls, the lives of two very different students inter

1938-11-30
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion i

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

1939-06-20
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor

1941-07-15
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their

1939-11-08
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his

1941-02-13
Elliott is hunted by Curtis who has spent six years behind bars because of his testimony. After knoc

1939-11-24
A fighter trains for the big bout, and discovers that his opponent is his girlfriend's brother.

1940-11-02
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf ke

1940-01-26
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.

1940-05-30
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a m

1940-01-19
To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.

1940-02-16
An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.

1940-05-23
The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the

1940-10-31
The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie

1940-02-08
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their c

1940-12-25
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when

1939-03-29
In this North western, a brave Canadian Mountie pursuing a gang of fur thieves finds himself drummed

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

1942-02-06
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.

1939-07-14
The hero, Texas Ranger Larry Whalen (Charles Starrett), is on the trail of a mysterious outlaw leade

1939-12-02
Things get under way when US marshal Tom (Starrett) finds himself in the midst of a range war. The v

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

1940-05-20
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamon

1938-09-10
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death

1941-03-30
Wild Bill Hickock (William Elliott), aka The Peaceable Man, meters out justice in the tough town of

1941-02-27
Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereaf

1940-02-14
Wild Bill Saunders discovers that his uncle Mort has been murdered by an unscrupulous ranch foreman,

1940-09-29
Wild Bill Hickok (Bill Elliott) leads a wagon train of settlers from Kansas to Colorado. Along the w

1941-11-27
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outla

1941-10-09
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. The

1940-01-31
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.

1941-05-16
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a bea

1940-09-27
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
1941-04-18
Roscoe's wife decides to divorce him and heads for Reno.

1940-11-29
A beautiful blonde places a stolen diamond on an unsuspecting man. Later, she returns to retrieve it

1939-11-02
Charley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welco