Date of birth: 1876-10-19
Place of birth: Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Lawrence Wheat, Laurance Wheat


1943-05-10
Gildersleeve has jury duty.

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

1921-11-01
The only daughter of wealthy Wall Street banker, Evelyn Murray, while with her aristocratic fiancé,

1925-02-17
Because he wants a promotion, Tom Blackford marries Alice Rand, the daughter of his boss, John Rand.

1923-08-19
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l

1937-05-29
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid

1921-07-01
On her journey to the United States, Marya Nisko falls in love with another immigrant, Sascha Rabino

1947-10-07
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview

1941-08-07
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the jo

1944-12-25
Just as Nevada wins $7000 in yellowback bills, Ben Ide takes his $7000 and heads out to buy mining e

1944-12-14
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply compl

1945-05-25
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a

1939-03-24
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until

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

1939-11-10
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncl

1936-02-28
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. A

1946-12-20
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people

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

1938-09-01
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K

1936-08-16
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.

1940-06-07
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the a

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

1926-01-24
Irene, a feisty Irish girl in Philadelphia, clashes with her family and walks out, heading to New Yo

1937-02-10
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his l

1946-04-01
A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of his
1945-08-10
Edgar's landlord wants to sell the house Edgar is renting. He has to come up with the money in two w

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

1936-08-01
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes success

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

1940-08-16
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the i

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

1940-05-17
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants the

1934-06-01
A young man from a small town hits New York City, bound and determined to become a radio star. Amazi

1940-08-30
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore,

1941-04-17
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich

1945-05-28
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.

1935-09-01
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

1923-12-24
The Song of Love is a silent film of 1923 directed by Chester M. Franklin and Frances Marion. The fi

1944-05-11
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan m

1945-11-23
A shipwrecked Don Rainsford washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island where the ma

1922-05-13
Dr. Budd is a New York physician specializing in "beauty". His business is successful but he is stil

1940-10-29
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His h

1942-02-05
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relation

1924-04-20
Wade is a promoter of fake oil stock who sends two of his men, Dan Corvan and Larry Maddox, down to

1923-04-29
Disgusted with his spendthrift son, Kirk Anthony's father has Kirk shanghaied and taken to Panama, w

1946-01-26
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.

1936-10-09
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.

1943-05-14
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U

1935-08-20
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the po

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

1944-07-26
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target

1946-05-04
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a

1935-05-31
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which

1942-03-11
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican bord

1945-09-07
Edgar’s day goes from bad to catastrophic after he lends his brother-in-law his car — mistake number

1946-05-10
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy w

1924-12-14
Inez Laranotta is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attend

1925-09-07
Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win th

1946-08-23
Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day o

1934-10-18
Young boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill's cousin Horace

1922-04-29
After his mining partner Joe Pelton's death, wealthy bachelor Richard Chester adopts Joe's five youn

1922-06-14
Story of a war hero who preferred fishing to politics.

1942-05-21
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is

1941-08-12
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side,

1922-10-29
In trying to decide whom to marry--Rita Pring, the daughter of a South Seas ship captain, or Lady He

1922-12-24
When Tom Redding's wealthy father dies and it turns out that all he left Tom was a mountain of debts

1925-05-25
Tom Clark, the part owner of a luckless gas station in New York, returns to his place of birth for O