George H. Reed was an American actor working in the Hollywood film industry in both the
silent and
sound
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eras. His first major film was the 1920 ''
Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876) and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884). He is 12 ...
'' where he played
Jim
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* Jim (given name), a given name
* Jim, a diminutive form of the given name James
* Jim, a short form of the given name Jimmy
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* ''Jim'' (comics), a series by Jim Woodring
* ''Jim ...
. He is also remembered for the film ''
The Green Pastures
''The Green Pastures'' is a play written in 1930 by Marc Connelly adapted from ''Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun'' (1928), a collection of stories written by Roark Bradford. The play was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930. It had th ...
'' (1936), which featured an all–African American cast, and the orderly Conover in
MGM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 a ...
's
Dr. Kildare
Dr. James Kildare is a fictional American medical doctor, originally created in the 1930s by the author Frederick Schiller Faust under the pen name Max Brand. Shortly after the character's first appearance in a magazine story, Paramount Pictur ...
series.
[''Silent Film Necrology'' 2nd Edition, c.2001 by Eugene Michael Vazzana]
Selected filmography
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Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876) and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884). He is 12 ...
'' (1920) - Jim (film debut)
*''The Veiled Mystery'' (1920) - Tom
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One a Minute
''One a Minute'' is a 1921 American comedy silent film directed by Jack Nelson and written by Frederick J. Jackson and Joseph F. Poland. The film stars Douglas MacLean, Marian De Beck, Victor Potel, Frances Raymond, Andrew Robson, and Graham P ...
'' (1921) - J. Wellington Norcross - Townsman (uncredited)
*''A Virginia Courtship'' (1921)
*''The Jungle Goddess'' (1922) - Native guide
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The Bishop of the Ozarks'' (1923) - Simon
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Scars of Jealousy'' (1923) - Mose
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Red Lights'' (1923) - Porter
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Cameo Kirby'' (1923) - Croup (uncredited)
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The Vagabond Trail
''The Vagabond Trail'' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by William A. Wellman and produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation.
The film is based on the 1923 novel ''Donnegan'' by George Owen Baxter (aka Max Brand).
P ...
'' (1924) - George Romain
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Helen's Babies'' (1924) - Rastus - the coachman
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The Fast Worker
''The Fast Worker'' is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Reginald Denny, Laura La Plante, and Ethel Grey Terry.Goble p. 839
Cast
Preservation
Prints of ''The Fast Worker'' are located in the collec ...
'' (1924) - Train Porter (uncredited)
*''The Isle of Hope'' (1925) - Cook
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Kentucky Pride
''Kentucky Pride'' is a 1925 American silent drama film from Fox Film about the life of a horse breeder and racer, directed by the famed film director John Ford and starring Henry B. Walthall (who had previously played the Little Colonel in ...
'' (1925) - Trainer
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The Golden Strain
''The Golden Strain'' is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Victor Schertzinger and written by Eve Unsell based upon a novel by Peter B. Kyne. The film stars Hobart Bosworth, Kenneth Harlan, Madge Bellamy, Lawford Davidson, Ann ...
'' (1925) - Butler
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Danger Quest
''Danger Quest'' is a 1926 American silent action film directed by Harry Joe Brown and starring Reed Howes, Ethel Shannon and J.P. McGowan.Munden p.164
Cast
* Reed Howes as Rob Rollins
* Ethel Shannon as Nan Colby
* J.P. McGowan as Col. Sp ...
'' (1926) - Umhatten
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The Johnstown Flood'' (1926) - Camp Cook (uncredited)
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Winning the Futurity'' (1926) - Uncle Mose
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Pals First
''Pals First'' is a lost 1926 American silent drama film produced and directed by Edwin Carewe. It stars Dolores del Río and Lloyd Hughes. Edwin Carewe directed the earlier 1918 version for Yorke Film Corporation. It was also called ''Pals ...
'' (1926) - Uncle Alex
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The Rough Riders'' (1927) - Minor Role (uncredited)
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The Noose'' (1928) - Death Row Inmate (uncredited)
*''The Clean-Up Man'' (1928) - Sambo
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The Big City'' (1928) - Black Waiter (uncredited)
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Three-Ring Marriage
''Three-Ring Marriage'' also known as ''3-Ring Marriage'' is a lost 1928 American silent drama film directed by Marshall Neilan and starring Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, and Lawford Davidson.
Cast
* Mary Astor as Anna
* Lloyd Hughes as Cal
* ...
'' (1928) - Valet
*''Absent'' (1928)
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River of Romance
''River of Romance'' is a 1929 American drama film directed by Richard Wallace and written by Ethel Doherty, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Dan Totheroh and John V.A. Weaver. The film stars Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Mary Brian, June Collyer, Henry B. Wal ...
'' (1929) - Rumbo
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They Learned About Women
''They Learned About Women'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code sports drama musical film directed by Jack Conway and Sam Wood, and starring Van and Schenck in their final film appearance together.
Although predominantly a black and white film, the ...
'' (1930) - Train Porter (uncredited)
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Montana Moon
''Montana Moon'' is a 1930 Pre-Code Western musical film which introduced the concept of the singing cowboy to the screen. Starring Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, and Ricardo Cortez, the film focuses on the budding rela ...
'' (1930) - Train Porter (uncredited)
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The Divorcee
''The Divorcee'' is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan, and Zelda Sears, based on the 1929 novel ''Ex-Wife'' by Ursula Parrott. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, who was nominated for the Academy Award ...
'' (1930) - Second Porter (uncredited)
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Love in the Rough'' (1930) - Train Porter (uncredited)
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Reducing'' (1931) - Train Porter (uncredited)
*''Trails of the Golden West'' (1931)
*''
Father's Son'' (1931) - Pullman Porter Johnson
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Sweepstakes
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'' (1931) - Cook's Helper (uncredited)
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Smart Money'' (1931) - George - a Porter (uncredited)
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Secret Service
A secret service is a government agency, intelligence agency, or the activities of a government agency, concerned with the gathering of intelligence data. The tasks and powers of a secret service can vary greatly from one country to another. For ...
'' (1931) - Wagon Driver (uncredited)
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Reducing'' (1931) - Les, Wagon Driver
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The Gay Caballero'' (1932) - Train Porter (uncredited)
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Murder at Dawn
''Murder at Dawn'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code film directed by Richard Thorpe. The film is also known as ''The Death Ray'' in the United Kingdom.
Cast
*Jack Mulhall as Danny
*Josephine Dunn as Doris Farrington
*Eddie Boland as Freddie
*Marjor ...
'' (1932) - The Taxi Driver (uncredited)
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What Price Hollywood?
''What Price Hollywood?'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Cukor and starring Constance Bennett with Lowell Sherman. The screenplay by Gene Fowler, Rowland Brown, Jane Murfin and Ben Markson is based on a story by A ...
'' (1932) - Minor Role (uncredited)
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Bachelor's Affairs'' (1932) - Men's Room Attendant (uncredited)
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The Golden West'' (1932) - Jasper the Coachman (uncredited)
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Bed of Roses
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Most modern beds consist of a soft, cushioned mattress on a bed frame. The mattress rests either on a solid base, often wood slats, or a sprung base. Many b ...
'' (1933) - Alice - Dan's Shipboard Cook (uncredited)
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Hold Your Man
''Hold Your Man '' is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by an uncredited Sam Wood and starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, the third of their six films together.Landazuri, Margarit"Hold Your Man" (TCM article)/ref> The scre ...
'' (1933) - Reverend Crippen (uncredited)
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Life in the Raw'' (1933) - Porter (uncredited)
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The Last Trail'' (1933) - Japonica Jones
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The House on 56th Street
''The House on 56th Street'' is a 1933 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code drama film. The film's plot involves a miscarriage of justice, wrongful conviction and imprisonment, and alienation of a prisoner from her only living relative.
Plot ...
'' (1933) - James - Lyndon's Butler (uncredited)
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Massacre
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'' (1934) - Chief Black Star (uncredited)
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Carolina'' (1934) - Minor Role (uncredited)
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A Modern Hero
''A Modern Hero'' is a 1934 American pre-Code romance drama film starring Richard Barthelmess and directed by G. W. Pabst. It is based on the novel with the same title by Louis Bromfield. It was Pabst's only American talking film and the next ...
'' (1934) - Paul's Butler (uncredited)
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The Witching Hour'' (1934) - Train - Prentice's Butler (uncredited)
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Twentieth Century
The 20th (twentieth) century began on
January 1, 1901 (1901, MCMI), and ended on December 31, 2000 (2000, MM). The 20th century was dominated by significant events that defined the modern era: Spanish flu, Spanish flu pandemic, World War I and ...
'' (1934) - Uncle Remus in Play (uncredited)
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Murder in Trinidad
''Murder in Trinidad'' is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Louis King and starring Nigel Bruce, Heather Angel, Victor Jory, and Murray Kinnell.Judge Priest
''Judge Priest'' is a 1934 American comedy film starring Will Rogers. The film was directed by John Ford, produced by Sol M. Wurtzel in association with Fox Film, and based on humorist Irvin S. Cobb's character Judge Priest. The picture is set i ...
'' (1934) - Black Servant (uncredited)
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Belle of the Nineties
''Belle of the Nineties'' is a 1934 American Western film directed by Leo McCarey and released by Paramount Pictures. Mae West's fourth motion picture, it was based on her original story ''It Ain't No Sin'', which was also to be the film's t ...
'' (1934) - Brother Eben (uncredited)
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The Curtain Falls
''The Curtain Falls'' (german: Der Vorhang fällt) is a 1939 German crime film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Anneliese Uhlig, Elfie Mayerhofer and Hilde Sessak. It was based on a play by Paul van der Hurck and was made by UFA at the com ...
'' (1934) - Jim - Elevator Operator (uncredited)
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch'' (1934) - Julius
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A Notorious Gentleman
''A Notorious Gentleman'' is a 1935 American drama film directed by Edward Laemmle and written by Leopold Atlas, Rufus King and Robert Tasker. The film stars Charles Bickford, Helen Vinson, Onslow Stevens, Dudley Digges, Sidney Blackmer and Joh ...
'' (1935) - Charles (uncredited)
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Wings in the Dark
''Wings in the Dark'' is a 1935 film directed by James Flood and starring Myrna Loy and Cary Grant and focusing on a daring woman aviator and an inventor thrust into a desperate situation. ''Wings in the Dark'' was produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr ...
'' (1935) - Waring - Valet (uncredited)
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The Glass Key
''The Glass Key'' is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett. First published as a serial in '' Black Mask'' magazine in 1930, it then was collected in 1931 (in London; the American edition followed 3 months later). It tells the story of a ga ...
'' (1935) - Black Servant (uncredited)
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Lady Tubbs
''Lady Tubbs'' is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Alan Crosland and written by Barry Trivers. The film stars Alice Brady, Douglass Montgomery, Anita Louise, Alan Mowbray, June Clayworth and Hedda Hopper. The film was released on July 2, 1 ...
'' (1935) - Railroad Porter (uncredited)
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Don't Bet on Blondes
''Don't Bet on Blondes'' is a 1935 American romantic comedy film.
Plot summary
When top Broadway bookmaker Odds Owen (Warren William) loses $50,000 on a horse owned by Everett Markham (Clay Clement), he investigates and finds out that the horse ...
'' (1935) - Marilyn's Butler (uncredited)
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Diamond Jim
''Diamond Jim'' is a 1935 biographical film based on the published biography ''Diamond Jim Brady'' by Parker Morell. It follows the life of legendary entrepreneur James Buchanan Brady, including his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell, and s ...
'' (1935) - Porter (uncredited)
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Red Salute'' (1935) - Butler (uncredited)
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The Virginia Judge'' (1935) - Rufus (uncredited)
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Shipmates Forever
''Shipmates Forever'' is a 1935 American musical film directed by Frank Borzage and written by Delmer Daves. Set at the United States Naval Academy, the film stars Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Lewis Stone, Ross Alexander, John Arledge, Eddie Acuff, ...
'' (1935) - Tom, Melville's Servant (uncredited)
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The Prisoner of Shark Island
''The Prisoner of Shark Island'' is a 1936 American drama film loosely based on the life of Maryland physician Samuel Mudd, who treated the injured presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth and later spent time in prison after his controversial co ...
'' (1936) - Black Man Giving Booth Directions (uncredited)
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The Country Beyond'' (1936) - Porter (uncredited)
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Show Boat
''Show Boat'' is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock worke ...
'' (1936) - Old Black Man (uncredited)
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The Green Pastures
''The Green Pastures'' is a play written in 1930 by Marc Connelly adapted from ''Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun'' (1928), a collection of stories written by Roark Bradford. The play was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930. It had th ...
'' (1936) - Mr. Deshee
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Anthony Adverse
''Anthony Adverse'' is a 1936 American epic historical drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney draws elements of its plot from eight of the nine books in Herve ...
'' (1936) - Crippled Black Man (uncredited)
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Oh, Susanna!'' (1936) - Fireman (uncredited)
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The Gorgeous Hussy
''The Gorgeous Hussy'' is a 1936 American period film directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor. The screenplay was written by Stephen Morehouse Avery and Ainsworth Morgan, which was based on a 1934 novel by Samuel ...
'' (1936) - Braxton (uncredited)
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After the Thin Man
''After the Thin Man'' is a 1936 American murder mystery comedy film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and James Stewart. A sequel to the 1934 feature ''The Thin Man'', the film presents Powell and Loy as Dashiel ...
'' (1936) - Dudley (uncredited)
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We Who Are About to Die
''We Who Are About to Die'' is a 1937 film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak
Ann Dvorak (born Anna McKim; August 2, 1911 – December 10, 1979) was an American stage and film actress.
Asked how to pronounc ...
'' (1937) - Black Convict (uncredited)
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Wings Over Honolulu'' (1937) - Fauntleroy (uncredited)
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The Go Getter'' (1937) - Butler for J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
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This Is My Affair
''This Is My Affair'' is a 1937 American crime film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Victor McLaglen and Brian Donlevy. It was released by 20th Century Fox.
Plot
In 1901, US President William McKinley ...
'' (1937) - Watchman in Capitol (uncredited)
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Saratoga'' (1937) - Butler (uncredited)
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One Mile from Heaven
''One Mile from Heaven'' is a 1937 American drama film directed by Allan Dwan and written by Lou Breslow and John Patrick. The film stars Claire Trevor, Sally Blane, Douglas Fowley, Fredi Washington, Joan Carroll and Ralf Harolde. The film was re ...
'' (1937) - Peabody (uncredited)
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The Buccaneer'' (1938) - Nicodemus, a Servant
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City Girl'' (1938) - Elevator Operator (uncredited)
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One Wild Night
"One Wild Night" is a song by American Rock music, rock band Bon Jovi. It was released on April 30, 2001, as a single from their 2001 live album, ''One Wild Night Live 1985–2001''. It was written by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, and produced ...
'' (1938) - Waiter (uncredited)
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Josette'' (1938) - Butler
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The Toy Wife
''The Toy Wife'' is a 1938 American drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Luise Rainer and Melvyn Douglas. The period film was produced by Merian C. Cooper and written by Zoë Akins.
Plot
Set before the American Civil War, ''The Toy ...
'' (1938) - Gabriel - Satoris' Servant (uncredited)
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Kentucky
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'' (1938) - Ben
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Going Places'' (1938) - Sam
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Calling Dr. Kildare
''Calling Dr. Kildare'' is a 1939 film in the Dr. Kildare series. Directed by Harold S. Bucquet, it stars Lew Ayres as the young Dr. Kildare and Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Gillespie, his mentor. The second of MGM's series of Kildare films, it intro ...
'' (1939) - Black Man with Stomach Trouble (uncredited)
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare
''The Secret of Dr. Kildare'' is a 1939 American film directed by Harold S. Bucquet and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This was the fourth of a total of ten Dr. Kildare pictures, Lew Ayres starred all but the first.
Plot summary
Dr. Leonard ...
'' (1939) - Conover, Gillespie's Attendant
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Swanee River'' (1939) - Old Joe, McDowell's Coachman
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case'' (1940) - Conover, Gillespie's Attendant
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Sporting Blood'' (1940) - Stonewall
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Maryland
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'' (1940) - Uncle Henry (uncredited)
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Manhattan Heartbeat
''Manhattan Heartbeat'' is a 1940 American drama film directed by David Burton and written by Clark Andrews, Harold Buchman, Jack Jungmeyer and Edith Skouras. It is based on the 1928 novel ''Bad Girl'' by Viña Delmar. The film stars Robert Ster ...
'' (1940) - Porter
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
''Dr. Kildare Goes Home'' is a 1940 American Drama (genre), drama film directed by Harold S. Bucquet, starring Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore and Laraine Day. It is the fifth in the MGM series of nine films with Lew Ayres as Dr. Kildare made from 193 ...
'' (1940) - Conover, Gillespie's Attendant
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
''Dr. Kildare's Crisis'' is a 1940 drama film directed by Harold S. Bucquet, starring Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore and Laraine Day. Mary Lamont's (Laraine Day) financier brother Douglas Lamont (Robert Young (actor), Robert Young) is subject to sei ...
'' (1940) - Conover, Gillespie's Attendant
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The Great Lie
''The Great Lie'' is a 1941 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding, and starring Bette Davis, George Brent and Mary Astor. The screenplay by Lenore J. Coffee is based on the novel ''January Heights'' by Polan Banks.
Plot
When concert ...
'' (1941) - Greenfield's Butler (uncredited)
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The People vs. Dr. Kildare
''The People vs. Dr. Kildare'' is a 1941 drama directed by Harold S. Bucquet, starring Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Bonita Granville, and Laraine Day. Dr. Kildare performs an emergency operation on a crash victim.
Plot
Ice skater Frances Marlo ...
'' (1941) - Conover, Gillespie's Attendant
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Kiss the Boys Goodbye
''Kiss the Boys Goodbye'' is a 1941 comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Mary Martin, Don Ameche and Oscar Levant. It is based on a play by Clare Boothe Luce which was inspired by the search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Ha ...
'' (1941) - George, House Servant
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Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
''Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day'' is a 1941 American drama film directed by Harold S. Bucquet, starring Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, and Laraine Day. It is the eighth of a total of nine Dr. Kildare pictures made by the MGM studios. When MGM decided t ...
'' (1941) - Conover, Gillespie's Attendant
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Belle Starr
Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr (February 5, 1848 – February 3, 1889), better known as Belle Starr, was an American outlaw who gained national notoriety after her violent death.
She associated with the James–Younger Gang and other outlaws ...
'' (1941) - Old Jake (uncredited)
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They Died with Their Boots On
''They Died with Their Boots On'' is a 1941 American black-and-white Western film from Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by Hal B. Wallis and Robert Fellows, directed by Raoul Walsh, that stars Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland.
The film's stor ...
'' (1941) - Charles (uncredited)
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Dr. Kildare's Victory'' (1942) - Conover, Gillespie's Attendant
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Reap the Wild Wind
''Reap the Wild Wind'' is a 1942 American adventure film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Ray Milland, John Wayne, and Paulette Goddard, with a supporting cast featuring Raymond Massey, Robert Preston (actor), Robert Prest ...
'' (1942) - Black Servant at Tea (uncredited)
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Mississippi Gambler'' (1942) - Roy
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Take a Letter, Darling
''Take a Letter, Darling'' is a 1942 American romantic comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Rosalind Russell. It was nominated for three Academy Awards; Best Cinematography, Best Score and Best Art Direction (Hans Dreier, Rola ...
'' (1942) - Sam French
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In This Our Life
''In This Our Life'' is a 1942 American drama film, the second to be directed by John Huston. The screenplay by Howard Koch is based on the 1941 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by Ellen Glasgow. The cast included the establishe ...
'' (1942) - Fitzroy's Butler (uncredited)
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Tales of Manhattan
''Tales of Manhattan'' is a 1942 American anthology film directed by Julien Duvivier. Thirteen writers, including Ben Hecht, Alan Campbell, Ferenc Molnár, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Donald Ogden Stewart, worked on the six stories in this film. Ba ...
'' (1942) - Christopher (Robeson sequence)
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The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
''The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe'' is a 1942 drama film directed by Harry Lachman, starring Linda Darnell and Shepperd Strudwick. The film is a cinematic biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines his romantic relationships with Sarah Elmira Roys ...
'' (1942) - Mose (uncredited)
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch'' (1942) - Butler in Olcott Home (uncredited)
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Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
''Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant'' is a 1942 feature film from MGM in their long-running Dr. Kildare series. Directed by Willis Goldbeck, it introduced two new doctors, Dr. Randall Adams (Van Johnson) and Dr. Lee Wong How (Keye Luke).
Plot
Physic ...
'' (1942) - Conover, Gillespie's Attendant
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Dixie
Dixie, also known as Dixieland or Dixie's Land, is a nickname for all or part of the Southern United States. While there is no official definition of this region (and the included areas shift over the years), or the extent of the area it cover ...
'' (1943) - Lucius (uncredited)
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Someone to Remember
''Someone to Remember'' is a 1943 American drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and written by Frances Hyland. The film stars Mabel Paige, Harry Shannon, John Craven, Dorothy Morris, Charles Dingle and David Bacon. The film was released on Aug ...
'' (1943) - John (uncredited)
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Is Everybody Happy?'' (1943) - Missouri
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His Butler's Sister
''His Butler's Sister'' is a 1943 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Deanna Durbin. The supporting cast includes Franchot Tone, Pat O'Brien, Akim Tamiroff, Evelyn Ankers and Hans Conried. The film was nominate ...
'' (1943) - Train Conductor (uncredited)
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Chip Off the Old Block
''Chip Off the Old Block'' is 1944 American comedy musical film starring Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, and Ann Blyth. It was Blyth's film debut.
The son of a strict Navy man, O'Connor falls in love with a girl from a performing family (Ann Blyt ...
'' (1944) - Theodore (uncredited)
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The Adventures of Mark Twain'' (1944) - Comet-Watcher (uncredited)
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3 Men in White'' (1944) - Conover, Gillespie's Attendant
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Home in Indiana'' (1944) - Tuppy (uncredited)
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Barbary Coast Gent
''Barbary Coast Gent'' is a 1944 American Western comedy film set in 1880s San Francisco's Barbary Coast and Nevada starring Wallace Beery. The movie was directed by Roy Del Ruth and features Binnie Barnes, Beery's brother Noah Beery, Sr., Joh ...
'' (1944) - Josephus - Bellamy's Servant (uncredited)
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Heavenly Days
''Heavenly Days'' is a 1944 film starring Fibber McGee and Molly. It was the third and final feature film to feature the popular radio characters; unlike the two previous entries, none of the radio show's supporting cast members appeared in this f ...
'' (1944) - Bigbee's Servant (uncredited)
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Jungle Queen'' (1945, Serial) - Tonga (uncredited)
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Between Two Women'' (1945) - Conover, Gillespie's Attendant (uncredited)
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Strange Illusion
''Strange Illusion'' is a 1945 film noir version of Hamlet, envisioned as a modern crime film. It was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starred Jimmy Lydon, Warren William and Sally Eilers. According to noir historian Spencer Selby the film is "a st ...
'' (1945) - Benjamin
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Dangerous Partners
''Dangerous Partners'' is a 1945 American adventure film directed by Edward L. Cahn and written by Marion Parsonnet and Edmund L. Hartmann, based on the novel “Paper Chase” by Oliver Weld Bayer, the pen-name of Leo and Eleanor Bayer (later kn ...
'' (1945) - Porter (uncredited)
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Nob Hill
Nob Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States that is known for its numerous luxury hotels and historic mansions. Nob Hill has historically served as a center of San Francisco's upper class. Nob Hill is among the highes ...
'' (1945) - Black Man at El Dorado (uncredited)
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Pride of the Marines
''Pride of the Marines'' is a 1945 American biographical war film starring John Garfield and Eleanor Parker. It tells the story of U.S. Marine Al Schmid in World War II, his heroic stand against a Japanese attack during the Battle of Guadalc ...
'' (1945) - Train Porter (uncredited)
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Saratoga Trunk
''Saratoga Trunk'' is a 1945 American Western film (or historical romance film, per the American Film Institute) directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, and Flora Robson. Written by Casey Robinson, based on the novel '' ...
'' (1945) - Carriage Driver, New Orleans (uncredited)
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Two Guys from Milwaukee
''Two Guys from Milwaukee'' (UK title: ''Royal Flush'') is a 1946 American comedy film directed by David Butler (director), David Butler and starring Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, and Joan Leslie. It was distributed by Warner Bros. The film is abou ...
'' (1946) - Clarence - the Porter (uncredited)
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The Sea of Grass
''The Sea of Grass'' is a 1936 novel by Conrad Richter. It is set in New Mexico in the late 19th century, and concerns the clash between rich ranchers, whose cattle run freely on government-owned land, a prairie "sea of grass", and the homestead ...
'' (1947) - Uncle Nat (uncredited)
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The Michigan Kid
''The Michigan Kid'' is a 1947 American Cinecolor Western film directed by Ray Taylor and starring Jon Hall, Victor McLaglen, Rita Johnson, and Andy Devine.
It was Hall's first film after getting out of the army and filming began 15 April 1 ...
'' (1947) - Steve's Servant (uncredited)
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The Homestretch
''The Homestretch'' is a 1947 American drama film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and written by Wanda Tuchock. The film stars Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara, Glenn Langan, Helen Walker, James Gleason, Henry Stephenson and Margaret Bannerman. The ...
'' (1947) - Dee Dee (uncredited)
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Dark Delusion
''Dark Delusion'' is a 1947 American drama film directed by Willis Goldbeck and starring James Craig, Lionel Barrymore, and Lucille Bremer. Produced and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the last film in the Dr. Kildare film series which st ...
'' (1947) - Conover, Gillespie's Attendant (final film role)
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1866 births
1952 deaths
African-American male actors
Male actors from Georgia (U.S. state)
American male silent film actors
American male film actors
Actors from Macon, Georgia
20th-century American male actors
20th-century African-American people