Date of birth: 1902-07-17
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Edward F. Gargan, Edward P. Gargan, Ed Gargan

Edward Gargan was born of Irish parents in Brooklyn, New York in 1902. He was the elder brother of actor William Gargan whose July 17 birthday he shared. Edward Gargan started as a musical comedy actor on Broadway. He sang in "Good News", "Rose-Marie", and other hit musicals of the 1920s, and also in opera. One of his early shows was "Polly of Hollywood" in 1927. He portrayed Patrolman Mulligan, one of the principals of "Strictly Dishonorable", in 1930. He went to Hollywood in 1932 and the next year was in the cast of the film "David Harum". For the next 19 years he appeared in a variety of movies. Gargan was one of the most prolific bit players in the history of the movies, specializing in dumb policemen and dense sidekicks. He appeared in nearly 300 feature films over a three-decade span between 1921 and 1952, and television work from 1951 to 1953. Gargan died in New York City in 1964.

1938-02-18
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strang
1930-12-31
Saloon singer Marion is unappreciated by her ungrateful boyfriend, Bob, so she expresses her sorrow

1942-08-06
Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the

1945-12-13
Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest

1950-03-01
Wealthy Kip Artmitage III (Robert Rockwell) honors his late wartime friend's request to look after t

1950-10-15
While raising cash to pay a debt, a Vegas gambler tricks a night club crooner there who looks like h

1938-11-10
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival ge

1940-12-06
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he

1933-10-13
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

1942-09-24
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers.

1950-08-13
Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, w

1945-06-02
After the death of shipping magnate William Reardon, his young partner, Steve Walker, becomes execut

1934-06-08
A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone

1938-09-02
Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persu

1938-07-20
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming o

1941-08-07
While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her a

1951-03-14
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.

1948-10-01
Ted Daniels, a ranch hand working for a rodeo, captures a magnificent wild horse that he tames and t

1938-06-09
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try

1942-08-07
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins

1943-07-17
Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,00

1943-04-01
The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into

1944-03-17
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learn

1942-10-02
A gentlemanly detective known as The Falcon calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from ass

1943-11-10
The Falcon is called to a young woman's school to investigate a murder. When he arrives, another vic

1939-03-08
Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman wh
1950-09-23
Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run t
1950-08-19
Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how.

1947-08-08
Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disgu

1946-08-07
A fresh-faced young detective gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde.

1947-04-17
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house wit

1935-08-03
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match wit

1944-05-13
Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets her c

1934-09-21
Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular

1938-05-10
In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fig

1942-04-02
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an

1945-11-29
Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her prac

1947-09-08
A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.

1935-03-11
A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal l

1938-12-16
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).

1936-11-06
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bri

1942-05-22
The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the cl

1946-05-25
Falsely accused of murdering a crooked newspaper reporter, suave detective Lamont Cranston -- aka th
1940-01-23
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a pol

1935-10-21
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They

1936-01-24
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner

1939-05-05
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own,

1933-07-22
Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office t

1938-11-11
Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to

1936-08-07
When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to
1931-05-02
A bumbling burglar's assistant botches a job for his boss.

1945-11-14
A war journalist escorts a spirited teen band back to NYC post-WWII, turning the journey into a musi
1931-11-07
Al St. John working as a door-to-door book salesman.
1934-02-05
Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.

1937-04-05
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance com

1944-04-25
The obsessive scientist Dr. Miller is working on a matter-transmitter invention called the Paratron;

1939-08-04
A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he b

1937-12-17
Wallaby Jim and his men have just found a valuable source of pearls in the South Pacific. But Jim's
1931-05-04
A carnival barker convinces a rube to take part in the baseball pitching game.

1950-02-02
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New
1931-07-04
A one-reel comedy short starring Tom Howard as a janitor who has to pick up a vase and not break it,

1935-08-17
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, b

1939-04-07
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred

1940-09-27
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card

1935-01-25
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her bes

1935-12-25
A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon,

1945-05-31
Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced

1938-08-19
Jim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they g

1935-01-21
A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
1947-05-15
Two sharpie promoters (Don Barry and Frank Jenks) put on a show they believe is so bad it will not p

1934-10-14
A gangster's girlfriend on the run from the police, who suspect her of helping her boyfriend commit

1937-11-18
An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.

1931-05-01
Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity eve

1934-10-01
A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along

1937-07-21
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in tow

1936-09-12
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress wi

1935-03-08
Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room

1940-12-25
Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, a

1934-12-21
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.

1934-04-06
In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surg

1937-10-01
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she i

1937-04-02
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passio

1939-01-27
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.

1936-03-01
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

1939-03-30
Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becom

1936-10-06
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after

1933-10-20
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining

1940-10-11
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Sav

1938-11-11
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go

1946-03-09
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.

1939-10-14
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

1939-02-03
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to

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

1941-08-02
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.

1936-03-07
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on th

1939-11-17
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a

1939-12-07
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

1934-11-01
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, i

1939-07-28
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending crim

1939-11-03
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Ariz

1945-02-27
Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in wh

1937-04-30
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him in

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

1939-10-24
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

1940-04-19
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He se

1939-04-21
Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kan

1937-02-13
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly a

1946-03-18
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of m

1942-01-19
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out t

1942-05-28
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.

1947-11-07
A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business.

1953-07-13
1947 film "Linda, Be Good" with added 3-D scenes with chorus girls.

1948-03-10
Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his empl

1942-06-19
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned

1940-03-01
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destro

1943-10-27
While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author faces the wrath of a socialite after stealing

1940-01-26
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of

1936-04-09
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and

1938-03-04
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending

1943-04-06
The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded

1936-12-01
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold t

1940-01-13
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a f

1942-02-20
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Cour

1945-06-07
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
1940-11-15
Joe Mason suffers from amnesia and is often in trouble. Catherine Foster befriends him and they marr

1943-08-23
Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her tim

1935-10-18
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.

1940-05-31
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of ri

1946-07-19
Story of a war veteran, who is persuaded by a machine politico to run for alderman. He finds that di

1948-12-01
When not drinking and fighting, three wildcatters in search of a gusher are enthusiastically drillin

1937-11-01
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.

1934-02-09
Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when sh

1940-02-23
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who jo

1944-09-15
A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants

1940-04-25
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage

1938-08-05
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists th

1940-09-21
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and strug

1939-10-26
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boos

1940-06-07
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

1937-08-27
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival paper

1940-02-17
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

1933-06-23
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross

1940-04-06
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow hi

1942-09-04
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mothe

1940-12-20
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months

1940-04-27
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.

1940-04-19
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then tur

1940-03-22
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.

1949-06-06
While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that

1943-09-25
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

1933-07-12
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she
1948-02-01
Bob Watson and Ricky Adams, and the Hughes twins, Skipper and Patricia, cannot register at Opalocka

1947-06-10
Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew work

1945-04-05
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring a

1946-01-25
New York hockey player Andy Buell is approached by Hollywood talent scout Nancy Davis to play the hu

1941-05-03
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's l

1933-05-26
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a

1939-03-03
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get

1945-06-08
Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten

1947-06-05
Autry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement involving hi

1939-02-25
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year j

1941-01-04
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.

1942-06-26
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy

1937-02-12
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.

1950-12-01
Leon manages to get a new house in the country cheap, and the whole family finds out that a mysterio

1947-06-19
Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent

1938-09-30
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match

1942-01-16
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon,

1942-01-15
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a s

1936-01-16
War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling

1942-05-29
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn'

1941-10-17
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.

1937-05-22
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

1945-12-14
A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.

1942-02-04
Dr. Gillespie supports Kildare's crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.

1936-02-29
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to d

1942-11-07
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pr

1943-12-06
Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklah

1939-10-04
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each to

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

1942-05-29
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector

1936-05-02
Joyce Reid, a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers h

1939-08-04
The Fitch family is managing an apartment building when the grandfather of their adopted son Butch d

1943-10-23
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.

1941-08-19
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arr

1940-03-08
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) s

1946-03-01
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspic

1941-02-08
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend h

1941-03-15
Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue

1950-05-18
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she annou

1947-02-06
Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that bel

1943-06-02
After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain r

1945-06-20
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act

1946-02-22
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the cro

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

1940-07-30
Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne W

1945-11-11
In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls i

1948-10-28
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face th

1936-09-02
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is

1951-04-05
College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chi

1938-12-09
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape
1947-05-10
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father

1931-06-27
A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.

1940-06-28
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns

1948-07-26
Terry O'Rourke, an American operating a small airline in Canada, is having a tough time making a go

1946-09-06
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or th

1935-09-12
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.

1934-03-02
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom

1936-09-18
The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J.

1935-08-30
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performe

1944-12-24
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

1933-08-04
Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandl