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Emmett Vogan
Charles Emmett Vogan (September 27, 1893 – October 6, 1969) was an American actor with almost 500 film appearances from 1934 to 1954, making him, along with Bess Flowers, one of the most prolific film actors of all time. In 1913, Vogan acted with the Allen and Kenna Musical Comedy Company. In 1917, he was the male lead in a touring company that presented ''The Four Husbands''. He also was the male lead in the touring production of ''Too Much Mustard'' (1924). Vogan also acted with the Anderson Players, the Wilkes Players, and the O.D. Woodward group, in addition to having a headline vaudeville act. Selected filmography * '' Love Birds'' (1934) * ''G Men'' (1935) as Bill, the Ballistics Expert (uncredited) * '' Let's Get Married'' (1937) * ''San Quentin'' (1937) as Lieutenant * ''Sergeant Murphy'' (1938) * '' Female Fugitive'' (1938) * '' Emergency Landing'' (1941) * '' Margin for Error'' (1943) * '' Mystery Broadcast'' (1943) *''The Crime Smasher'' (1943) * ''Faces in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous Money
''Dangerous Money'', also known as ''Hot Money'', is a 1946 American film directed by Terry O. Morse, featuring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. This is the second and last appearance of Willie Best as Chattanooga Brown, the cousin of Charlie Chan's usual chauffeur, Birmingham Brown ( Mantan Moreland). Plot Aboard an ocean liner in the South Pacific, US Treasury agent Scott Pearson confidentially asks Charlie Chan for help; two attempts have been made on his life. Chan rescues him from a third, but not the fourth (a knife in the back). The captain asks Chan to complete the dead man's mission and find out who is responsible for the recent surfacing of counterfeit dollars and stolen art. Chan declines, citing urgent business in Australia, but sets out to find the murderer. Cast * Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan * Victor Sen Yung as Jimmy Chan (Number 2 son) * Joseph Crehan as Captain Black * Willie Best as Chattanooga Brown * John Harmon as Freddie Kirk * Bruce Edwards a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Along The Navajo Trail (film)
''Along the Navajo Trail'' is a 1945 American Western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes and Dale Evans. The film's story was based on a William Colt MacDonald novel. The film marked the debut of the Cuban actress Estelita Rodriguez, who Republic Pictures then began to build up into a star. Its title song is '' Along the Navajo Trail'', an instrumental version of which appears with the opening credits, with a brief vocal version during the last twenty seconds of the film. The first few bars of the song are used as background music in several chase scenes. The film was part of the long-running series of Roy Rogers films produced by the studio.Hurst, p. 232. Plot Deputy U.S. Marshal Roy Rogers poses as a wandering poet, finding and defeating a group of bad guys who, for reasons they keep to themselves, are trying to oust a girl and her father from their ranch. As the plot develops, it is revealed that they want the ranch so they can sell it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Male Film Actors
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Deaths
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314. * January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States. * January 22 – An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Brezhnev escaped unharmed. * January 27 ** Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson. * January 6 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress; the charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison. * January 13 ** The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom has its first meeting. ** U.S. Marines from the ''USS Boston'' land in Honolulu, Hawaii, to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. * January 15 – The ''Telefon Hírmondó'' service starts with around 60 subscribers, in Budapest. * January 17 – Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii: Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety in Hawaii, with the intervention of the United States Marine Corps, overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani. * January 21 ** The Cherry Sisters first perform in Marion, Iowa. ** The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Gusher
''The Big Gusher'' is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Lew Landers and starring Wayne Morris and Preston Foster.Dick p.260 A pair oil prospectors on a drunken spree buy an apparently worthless piece of land from a con man, then attempt to find if there may really be oil there. Plot Partial cast * Wayne Morris as Kenny Blake * Preston Foster as Henry 'Hank' Mason * Dorothy Patrick as Betsy Abbott * Paul E. Burns as Cappy Groves * Emmett Vogan Charles Emmett Vogan (September 27, 1893 – October 6, 1969) was an American actor with almost 500 film appearances from 1934 to 1954, making him, along with Bess Flowers, one of the most prolific film actors of all time. In 1913, Vogan ... as Jim Tolman References Bibliography * Dick, Bernard F. ''Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio''. University Press of Kentucky, 2015. External links * 1951 films 1951 adventure films American adventure films Columbia Pictures films Films directed by Lew Land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batman And Robin (serial)
''New Adventures of Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder'', also known as simply ''Batman and Robin'', is a 15-chapter serial released in 1949 by Columbia Pictures. It is a sequel to the 1943 serial ''Batman'', although with different actors. Robert Lowery played Batman, while Johnny Duncan played Robin. Supporting players included Jane Adams as Vicki Vale and veteran character actor Lyle Talbot as Commissioner Gordon. The serials were re-released as Video On Demand titles by Rifftrax, the alumni project of former ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' members Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett. As of September 2014, they have released the entire serial. Turner Classic Movies has broadcast the film serial from June to November 2015 and from October 2021 to January 2022 in a weekly half-hour slot on Saturday mornings. Plot The dynamic duo face off against the Wizard, a hooded villain with an electrical device which controls cars to augment his compulsion to set challen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sickle Or The Cross
''The Sickle or the Cross'' is a 1949 American drama film directed by Frank Strayer, which stars Kent Taylor, Gloria Holden, and Gene Lockhart. The screenplay was written by Jesse L. Lasky Jr. from an original story by T. G. Eggers. Produced and distributed by the Lutheran Laymen's League, it had its world premiere in Burbank, California on July 1, 1949. Cast list * Kent Taylor as Rev. John Burnside, aka Comrade X-14 * Gloria Holden as Louise Canon * Gene Lockhart as James Johnson * David Bruce as George Hart * Emmett Vogan as Walt Deems * Kathleen Lockhart as Martha Deems * Margaret Kerry as Betty Deems * Arthur Stone as Tommy Deems * Dudley Dickerson as Horatio * Adeline De Walt Reynolds as Mrs. Burnside * John Eldredge as Rev. Dodge * Ivan Triesault as Morse * Charles Halton as Dr. Short * Gene Roth as Pakin * Gayne Whitman Gayne Whitman (born Alfred D. Vosburgh; March 19, 1890 – August 31, 1958) was an American radio and film actor. He appeared in mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cover Up (1949 Film)
''Cover Up'' is a 1949 American film noir mystery film directed by Alfred E. Green starring Dennis O'Keefe, William Bendix and Barbara Britton. O'Keefe also co-wrote the screenplay, credited as Jonathan Rix. The murder mystery takes place during the Christmas season. Plot In a small Midwestern town, Roger Phillips is found dead. When insurance investigator Sam Donovan (O'Keefe) arrives looking into the apparent suicide, all clues lead him to suspect murder. The man was shot, but there are no powder burns on the body (which would indicate he was not shot at close range) nor was a pistol found. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best (Bendix), despite a double indemnity clause. It turns out the dead man was universally hated. One of the prime suspects is Frank Baker, who eloped with Phillips' niece the night of the death when Phillips objected to the marriage. During the investigation, Sam and local girl Anita Weatherby (Britton) ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shadow Returns
''The Shadow Returns'' is a 1946 American comedy crime film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Kane Richmond, Barbara Read and Tom Dugan. It features the pulp character The Shadow, already a popular hero of novels and a radio show. It was the first in a series of three films released by Monogram in 1946 starring Richmond in the role. Premise Private detective Lamont Cranston steps in to solve a murder for the police with the assistance of his alter ego The Shadow. Cast * Kane Richmond as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow *Barbara Read as Margo Lane * Tom Dugan as Shrevvy * Joseph Crehan as Police Insp. Cardona * Pierre Watkin as Police Commissioner J.R. Weston * Robert Emmett Keane as Charles Frobay * Frank Reicher as Michael Hasdon * Lester Dorr as William Monk * Rebel Randall as Lenore Jessup * Emmett Vogan as Joseph Yomans, aka Paul Breck * Sherry Hall as Robert Buell * Cyril Delevanti as John Adams, the Butler Reception ''The New York Times'' called ''The Shadow Retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Club Girl
''Night Club Girl'' is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline and written by Henry Blankfort and Dick Irving Hyland. The film stars Vivian Austin, Edward Norris, Maxie Rosenbloom, Minna Gombell, Judy Clark and Bill Dunn. The film was released on January 5, 1945, by Universal Pictures. Plot Cast *Vivian Austin as Eleanor Kendall * Edward Norris as Clark Phillips * Maxie Rosenbloom as Percival J. Percival * Minna Gombell as Rita *Judy Clark as Janie *Bill Dunn as Charlie Kendall * Leon Belasco as Gaston * Andrew Tombes as Simmons * Fred Sanborn as Fred * Clem Bevans as Mayor * Virginia Brissac as Ma Kendall *Emmett Vogan Charles Emmett Vogan (September 27, 1893 – October 6, 1969) was an American actor with almost 500 film appearances from 1934 to 1954, making him, along with Bess Flowers, one of the most prolific film actors of all time. In 1913, Vogan ... as Cass * George Davis as Carlos * The Delta Rhythm Boys as Themselves *Paula Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She Gets Her Man (1945 Film)
''She Gets Her Man'' is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Erle C. Kenton and written by Warren Wilson, Clyde Bruckman, Ray Singer and Dick Chevillat. The film stars Joan Davis, William Gargan, Leon Errol, Vivian Austin, Milburn Stone and Russell Hicks. The film was released on January 12, 1945, by Universal Pictures. Plot Cast * Joan Davis as Jane 'Pilky' Pilkington * William Gargan as 'Breezy' Barton *Leon Errol as Mulligan *Vivian Austin as Maybelle Clark * Milburn Stone as 'Tommy Gun' Tucker *Russell Hicks as Mayor *Donald MacBride as Henry Wright * Paul Stanton as Dr. Bleaker *Cy Kendall as Brodie * Emmett Vogan as Hatch *Eddie Acuff as Boze * Virginia Sale as Phoebe *Ian Keith as Oliver McQuestion * Maurice Cass as Mr. Pudge *Chester Clute as Charlie *Arthur Loft as Waldron * Sidney Miller as Boy *Leslie Denison as Barnsdale *Al Kikume Al Kikume (9 October 1894 – 27 March 1972), born Elmer Kikume Gozier, was an American actor and stuntman of Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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