Date of birth: 1902-02-08
Place of birth: Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Jacob Benson Luden


1928-06-11
Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears

1938-07-15
Heading up the Chisholm Trail with a small herd and just a few men, Breezy has his cattle rustled by

1927-10-08
Story of a rancher clearing his girlfriend's father of a crime he didn't commit

1936-09-11
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant King protects a girl who has come to claim a mine left by her

1927-12-17
Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby G

1929-04-06
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, S

1935-12-02
Larry Baker is a young fireman whose daring exploits have led him to receiving a lot of newspaper pu

1928-03-01
After being dismissed for imitating his boss's voice on radio, former Assistant District Attorney Ri

1930-03-20
Lieut. Robert Banks, an American aviator on leave in Paris, meets Mary Gordon, a young American who

1929-10-03
George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George the

1926-07-10
Druggist Elmer Prettywillie is sleeping. A woman rings the night bell only to buy a two-cent stamp.

1929-10-05
Sweet Nell is the jewel of Dry Gulch and all of the eligible bachelors seek her hand. The townsfolk

1938-05-13
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. C

1938-12-31
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargain

1939-03-03
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husb

1939-04-07
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audi

1939-05-05
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets de

1939-06-13
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor o

1939-12-15
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activiti

1942-10-30
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter

1938-08-30
A salted gold mine proves to be troublesome for a ghost town.

1938-03-07
The strip is being opened to settlers and as everyone heads for the starting line, Thad and his outl

1938-06-19
Western featuring a thrilling stagecoach race.

1942-09-08
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help d

1930-02-08
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with th

1945-06-07
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.

1944-08-11
The election to determine if Texas will become a state is near and men opposed are running contraban

1940-10-22
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) trave

1940-12-27
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pe

1940-11-08
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World Wa

1940-06-05
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by

1942-11-14
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and h

1941-12-12
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuf

1927-07-01
On his way to Steer City, Buddy Hale rescues Janet Lane from a runaway horse. Unknown to Buddy, the

1926-03-17
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris L

1941-12-31
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. U

1928-11-03
A princess falls in love with the man who killed her cousin. The lover swears it was in self-defense

1943-09-29
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

1941-06-20
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but th

1943-09-09
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a
1927-05-04
Bee Haven, a little country girl from Missouri, wins a Charleston contest and goes to New York to pu

1945-08-13
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affai

1943-10-27
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the prep

1945-12-07
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat

1928-02-04
Gold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder. Denmead

1928-12-28
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he st
1926-09-01
Bill Grimm, a taxicab driver, falls in love with Barbara Baxter, from Lyons, New York, the minute sh

1927-01-16

1934-04-09
An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of

1933-05-26
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshado

1928-08-05
A petty thief who robs the very rich at speakeasies, and gets away with it because the rich don't wa

1930-04-22
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, cre