Date of birth: 1892-08-08
Place of birth: Eureka, California, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Sheridan Francis Hall

1931-08-22
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

1936-11-12
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little

1951-05-25
Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is as

1937-02-26
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns th

1934-05-11
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she prov

1951-09-24
In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgott

1939-12-25
The "gentleman" is played by John King, but the star of the show is J. Farrell McDonald, cast as a c

1937-06-30
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.

1929-04-01
Neal Abbott (Ben Lyon), a disgraced surgeon, regains his self-respect after operating on and saving

1944-12-18
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him tha

1946-09-29
A private detective and his assistant are hired to find a missing husband by the detective's former

1936-03-06
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeopl

1935-10-25
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

1931-12-07
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of

1935-02-15
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the vict

1936-11-13
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.

1917-10-15
Mildred Manning, known as Middy, is an apprentice in Madame Lizette's fashionable shop. Her beauty i

1949-05-20
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the ti

1936-07-10
Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scienti

1938-04-18
Adventuring author Jean Williams is living in the wilds of Alaska alongside the Eskimo people gather

1950-12-27
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.

1950-12-25
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the me

1933-12-13
Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams, an ace newsreel cameraman whose love affair with the bottle a

1931-07-18
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.

1933-02-17
Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.

1929-02-10
A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the
1935-11-16
A thief on the run dumps some hot money in Thelma and Patsy's lap.

1932-04-01
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leade

1935-11-22
Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disgui

1935-08-09
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo:

1930-07-05
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.

1929-11-03
A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.

1937-01-27
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.

1937-12-31
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, wil

1937-04-04
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeit

1932-10-15
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quic

1936-07-24
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a

1933-09-15
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville

1931-12-24
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the o

1933-02-10
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters

1944-09-27
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.

1936-09-11
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

1940-12-06
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a

1938-07-16
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville an

1935-08-30
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an un

1950-09-29
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is als

1937-02-05
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Fur

1937-07-22
A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a Euro

1939-03-24
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

1934-02-22
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up s

1938-12-30
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby

1937-11-08
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners, who is on trial for shooting her lo

1932-02-19
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours abou

1936-06-05
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the

1935-02-08
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.

1940-01-11
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He

1937-12-11
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

1937-05-16
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.

1938-11-15
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppress

1938-02-04
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers

1945-12-25
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kit

1938-06-24
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence

1949-09-02
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his ol

1932-01-02
After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with rese

1938-06-02
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four

1940-05-02
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more m

1936-10-09
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she f

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

1936-07-10
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want h

1934-05-25
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed f

1947-10-15
A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military.

1937-06-25
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transat

1950-05-26
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

1940-08-10
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

1934-10-20
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?

1934-10-05
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.

1940-12-19
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyll

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

1935-10-10
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants

1932-05-21
A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent ma

1940-10-25
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.

1943-11-27
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on

1945-04-20
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an

1939-11-17
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run

1938-03-11
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway prod

1933-10-06
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.

1950-08-24
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big power

1935-10-21
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subseq

1947-03-01
In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who tur

1949-12-02
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the

1940-07-19
A man violates company policy by getting married.

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

1950-06-23
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas

1951-08-17
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train rid

1931-09-16
The adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

1932-03-26
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich

1945-04-24
A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.

1934-05-04
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and

1933-10-04
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.

1945-09-07
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If t

1934-05-24
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lio

1945-07-13
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

1945-05-10
After suffering a head injury during the London Blitz, theatre actor John Loder comes to believe him

1941-03-14
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witn

1944-12-05
Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership t

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

1946-12-19
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But whe

1934-07-06
Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes h

1932-08-15
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbi

1933-05-19
A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway pre

1931-02-07
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling a

1932-10-25
A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver

1931-11-28
A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry h

1944-10-06
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to th

1932-12-24
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York