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Ambush (1939 Film)
''Ambush'' is a 1939 American drama film directed by Kurt Neumann and written by Laura Perelman and S. J. Perelman. The film stars Gladys Swarthout, Lloyd Nolan, William "Bill" Henry, William Frawley, Ernest Truex and Broderick Crawford. The film was released on January 20, 1939, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Charlie Hartman is part of a gang bossed by a criminal named Gibbs that pulls off a daring robbery in broad daylight. Charlie's honest sister Jane ends up being taken hostage but manages to convey her dire need for help to a truck driver, Tony Andrews. Tony attempts to help save Jane and, if possible, her brother as well. Pretending to help Gibbs and the thieves, he leaves clues for the police to follow. One of the crooks, Blue, is killed, after which another, Randall, attempts to escape after Charlie's guilty conscience causes a change of heart. Tony is able to free Jane from the clutches of Gibbs, after which he and Jane collect the reward and begin to plan a new life t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Neumann (director)
Kurt Neumann (5 April 1908 – 21 August 1958) was a German Hollywood film director who specialized in science fiction movies in his later career. Biography Born in Nuremberg, the son of a manufacturer of tin stamps studied music in several German cities, including Berlin. In 1926 he directed his first short movie. Neumann came to the U.S. in the early talkie era, hired to direct German language versions of Hollywood films. Once he mastered English and established himself as technically proficient in filmmaking, Neumann directed such low-budget programmers as ''The Big Cage'' (1932), ''Secret of the Blue Room'' (1933) with Paul Lukas and Gloria Stuart, ''Hold 'Em Navy'' (1936), '' It Happened in New Orleans'' (1936) with child star Bobby Breen, ''Wide Open Faces'' (1937) with Joe E. Brown, '' Island of Lost Men'' and ''Ellery Queen: Master Detective'' in 1939. Neumann was signed by producer Hal Roach in 1941 to direct a series of " streamliners", 45-minute features designed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clem Bevans
Clem Guy Bevans (October 16, 1880 – August 11, 1963) was an American character actor best remembered for playing eccentric, grumpy old men. Early life Bevans was born in Cozzadale, Ohio. Career Bevans had a very long career, starting in vaudeville in 1900 in an act with Grace Emmett. He progressed to burlesque, Broadway, and even light opera, before making his film debut at the age of 55 in ''Way Down East'' (1935). His portrayal was so good, he became stereotyped and played mostly likable old codgers for the rest of his life. Bevans played the neighbour of Gregory Peck in ''The Yearling'' and the gatekeeper in '' Harvey'' (1950). However, he did occasionally play against type, for example as a Nazi spy in Alfred Hitchcock's '' Saboteur'' (1942). He also made some television appearances, including the role of Captain Hugo in the 1958 '' Perry Mason'' episode "The Case of the Demure Defendant" and as Pete in ''The Twilight Zone'' episode "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" (1962). He p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Morgan
Gene Morgan (March 12, 1893 – August 13, 1940) was an American actor. He appeared in 111 films between 1926 and 1941. He was born in Racine, Wisconsin, United States, and died in Santa Monica, California. Selected filmography * ''Rogue of the Rio Grande'' (1930) - Mayor Seth Landport * '' Anybody's Blonde'' (1931) * '' Blonde Venus'' (1932) * '' Hook and Ladder'' (1932 short) * ''Song of the Eagle'' (1933) * '' Panic on the Air'' (1936) * '' Alibi for Murder'' (1936) * '' End of the Trail'' (1936) * ''Come Closer, Folks'' (1936) * ''The Music Goes 'Round'' (1936) * ''Counterfeit'' (1936) * '' Counterfeit Lady'' (1936) * '' Devil's Squadron'' (1936) * '' Shakedown'' (1936) * ''Make Way for Tomorrow'' (1937) * ''Murder in Greenwich Village'' (1937) * ''Woman in Distress'' (1937) * ''All American Sweetheart'' (1937) * ''Federal Man-Hunt'' (1938) * '' The Main Event'' (1938) * '' Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'' (1939, uncredited) * '' Saps at Sea'' (1940) * ''Meet John Doe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sammy McKim
Sammy McKim (December 20, 1924 – July 9, 2004) was a Canadian film actor and artist. He graduated from Los Angeles Art Center with a Bachelor of Arts Degree and was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He died in Burbank, California from heart failure in 2004. McKim Served in the U.S. Army in 1943 with his brother David McKim where he fought in the Korean War. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross medal for being shot down in combat during the Korean War. After the war McKim stopped acting and became an artist, starting his career at the art department of Fox Studios before moving to the Walt Disney Company where he'd stay for the next 32 years until his retirement in 1987, 12 of which he would work closely with Walt Disney. WED Enterprises/Walt Disney Imagineering career McKim began his career at WED Enterprises in 1954 as an illustrator six months prior to the opening of Disneyland. One of his earliest illustrations being of The Golden Horseshoe in Frontierland as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lew Kelly
Lew Kelly (August 24, 1879 – June 10, 1944) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1928 and 1944. He was born Louis Kelly in St. Louis, Missouri, and died in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography * '' Barnum Was Right'' (1929) * '' The Woman Racket'' (1930) * '' I Take This Woman'' (1931) * ''The Devil Plays'' (1931) * ''Lady and Gent'' (1932) * ''The Devil Horse'' (1932) * ''Vanity Street'' (1932) * '' Laughter in Hell'' (1933) * ''State Trooper'' (1933) * '' The Meanest Gal in Town'' (1934) * '' What's Your Racket?'' (1934) * '' One in a Million'' (1934) * '' The Lady in Scarlet'' (1935) * ''Mississippi'' (1935) * '' Three of a Kind'' (1936) * ''Winds of the Wasteland'' (1936) * '' Lady Luck'' (1936) * ''Wanted! Jane Turner'' (1936) * ''It Happened Out West'' (1937) * '' Lawless Valley'' (1938) * ''Three Texas Steers'' (1939) * ''The Little Foxes ''The Little Foxes'' is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman, considered a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olin Howland
Olin Ross Howland (February 10, 1886 – September 20, 1959) was an American film and theatre actor. Life and career Howland was born in Denver, Colorado, to Joby A. Howland, one of the youngest enlisted participants in the Civil War, and Mary C. Bunting. His sister was stage actress Jobyna Howland. From 1909 to 1927, Howland appeared on Broadway in musicals, occasionally performing in silent films. The musicals include '' Leave It to Jane'' (1917), ''Two Little Girls in Blue'' (1921) and ''Wildflower'' (1923). He was in the film ''Janice Meredith'' (1924) with Marion Davies. With the advent of sound films, his theatre background proved an asset, and he concentrated mostly on films thereafter, appearing in nearly two hundred movies between 1918 and 1958. Howland often played eccentric and rural roles in Hollywood. His parts were often small and uncredited, and he never got a leading role. He was a personal favorite of David O. Selznick, who cast him in his movies '' No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Homans
Robert Edward Homans (November 8, 1877 – July 28, 1947) was an American actor who entered films in 1923 after a lengthy stage career. Life and career Robert Homans was born November 8, 1877, in Malden, Massachusetts. Although he studied medicine for three years after his college graduation, a 1906 newspaper article noted that "the 'stage bee' got into his bonnet and nothing would do but that he become an actor." His Broadway credits include '' The Blue Bird'' (1910), ''The Blue Envelope'' (1915), ''Johnny, Get Your Gun'' (1916) and ''Like a King'' (1921). His screen debut came in ''Madame Sherry''. He appeared in some 400 films between 1917 and 1946. On April 18, 1909, Homans married Agnes J. Mellon in San Francisco. Another source gives his wife's name as Agnes Maynard. Homans died in Los Angeles, California on July 28, 1947, from a heart attack. Filmography * ''Madame Sherry'' (1917) as Minor Role * ''Legally Dead'' (1923) as Detective Powell * '' Dark Stairways' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Hill (actor)
Al Hill (July 14, 1892 – July 14, 1954) was an American film character actor who appeared in over 320 films between 1927 and 1954, including the 1951 film '' The Girl on the Bridge''. Hill died in 1954 on his 62nd birthday. threestooges.net; accessed July 3, 2015. Partial filmography * '''' (1928) * '' Stool Pigeon'' (1928) * '''' (1929) * ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Hatton
Raymond William Hatton (July 7, 1887 – October 21, 1971) was an American film actor who appeared in almost 500 motion pictures. Biography Hatton was born in Red Oak, Iowa. His physician father steered him toward a career in medicine. However, Hatton had become enamored of being on stage after he acted in a school play, and he left home to go into acting as a career. Hatton was part of a vaudeville act that went to Hollywood in 1911. There, he established a successful silent film career, including a stint being paired in 1920s comedies with Wallace Beery. During the sound era, though, his career soon skidded and he usually played smaller supporting roles, including the tobacco-chewing, rowdy character Rusty Joslin in ''The Three Mesquiteers'' Western B picture series. By the 1950s, Hatton's acting roles expanded into television, where he appeared in various series, including the '' Adventures of Superman''. He has a star in the Motion Picture section of the Hollywood Walk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Clayton
Ethel Clayton (November 8, 1882 – June 6, 1966) was an American actress of the silent film era. Early years Born in Champaign, Illinois, Clayton attended St. Elizabeth's school in Chicago. Career Clayton debuted on stage as a professional as a member of the chorus in a production at the Chicago Opera House. After that, she worked with stock theater companies in Milwaukee and Minneapolis. On stage, Clayton appeared mainly in musicals or musical revues such as ''The Ziegfeld Follies of 1911''. In addition to that production, her Broadway credits include ''Fancy Free'' (1918), ''You're in Love'' (1917), ''Nobody Home'' (1915), ''The Red Canary'' (1914), ''The Brute'' (1912), and ''His Name on the Door'' (1909). Clayton's first film was ''When the Earth Trembled''. Following appearances on screen in short dramas from 1909 to 1912, she made her feature-length film debut in ''For the Love of a Girl'' in 1912. Barry O'Neil directed the film, and Clayton later was directed by W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Acuff
Edward DeKalb Acuff (June 3, 1903 – December 17, 1956) was an American stage and film actor. He frequently was cast as a droll comic relief, in the support of the star. His best-known recurring role is that of Mr. Beasley, the postman, in the '' Blondie'' movie series that starred Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake. Early years Acuff was born in Caruthersville, Missouri. He was the son of DeKalb Acuff (1880-1916) and his wife Grace (later known as Mrs. H. N. Arnold),. Career Before beginning his Hollywood film career in 1934, Acuff performed in Broadway theatre in the early-1930s. His Broadway credits include ''Jayhawker'' (1934), ''Yellow Jack'' (1934), ''John Brown'' (1934), ''Growing Pains'' (1933), ''Heat Lightning'' (1933), and ''The Dark Hours'' (1932). In 1935, Warner Bros. signed Acuff to a long-term contract and scheduled him to debut on film in ''Anchors Aweigh''. He had a recurring role as the postman in the '' Blondie'' film series. Acuff was seen in three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Melford
George H. Melford (born George Henry Knauff, February 19, 1877 – April 25, 1961) was an American stage and film actor and director. Often taken for granted as a director today, the stalwart Melford's name by the 1920s was, like Cecil B. DeMille's, appearing in big bold letters above the title of his films. Early years Born in Rochester, New York, in 1877 (though older sources state 1888), he was the son of German immigrant Henrietta Knauff. Melford had four sisters: Mary Knauff (Mrs. Godfrey Willis Wainwright); Henrietta Knauff; Alice Irene Knauff (Mrs. Edmond Francois Bernoudy) — all of Los Angeles — and Mrs. Frederick Kells/Keils of Ottawa, Canada. Melford graduated from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-pe ..., Canada. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
