Hector William "Harry" Cording (26 April 1891 – 1 September 1954) was an English-American actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his roles in the films '' The Black Cat'' (1934) and ''
The Adventures of Robin Hood
''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' is a 1938 American Technicolor swashbuckler film from Warner Bros. Pictures. It was produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke, directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, and stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de H ...
'' (1938).
Life and career
Cording was born Hector William Cording on 26 April 1891 in
Wellington
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. He was brought up and was educated at Rugby, and he was a member of the English Army in World War I. In 1919, he became steward for a British steamship line whose ships, such as the ''Vauban'' and the ''Calamares'', which he had worked on, frequently called at the Port of New York. After a number of trips, he resigned and decided to stay in the United States. He later settled permanently in
Los Angeles
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, where he began a film career. His first role was as a henchman in ''The Knockout'' (1925), followed by similar roles over the next few years. Cording appeared in many Hollywood films from the 1920s to the 1950s. With an imposing six-foot height, stocky build, and perhaps due to his uncomfortable resemblance to veteran film bad guy
Oskar Homolka
Oskar Homolka (August 12, 1898 – January 27, 1978) was an Austrian film and theatre actor, who went on to work in Germany, Britain and America. Both his voice and his appearance fitted him for roles as communist spies or Soviet officials, for w ...
, "Harry the Henchman" usually portrayed thugs, villains'
henchmen
A henchman (''vernacular:'' "hencher"), is a loyal employee, supporter, or aide to some powerful figure engaged in nefarious or criminal enterprises. Henchmen are typically relatively unimportant in the organization: minions whose value lies pri ...
and policemen.
Cording's most notable roles were probably as the villainous Dickon Malbete, Captain of the Guard in
Errol Flynn
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-American actor who achieved worldwide fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles, frequent partnerships with Olivia ...
Bela Lugosi
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (; October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956), known professionally as Bela Lugosi (; ), was a Hungarian and American actor best remembered for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 horror classic ''Dracula'', Ygor in ''S ...
's character in 1934's ''
Black Cat
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''. As a contract player at
Universal Pictures
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in the 1940s, he turned up in tiny parts in many of their horror films, such as '' The Wolf Man''.
Having appeared in a bit role in
20th Century-Fox
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Basil Rathbone
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(1939), he went on to appear in supporting and bit parts in seven of the twelve
Universal Studios
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Sherlock Holmes
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'' films in which Rathbone starred.
Cording died on 1 September 1954. The cause of death was not documented. His wife was Margaret Cording, née Fiero, (1912–91), a native of Michigan; their daughter, Margaret Rose, was born on 7 November 1939. The Cordings lived at 4104 Farmdale Avenue, North Hollywood. Harry Cording was an active member of the
Loyal Order of Moose
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fraternity.
Cording is buried in Glen Haven Memorial Park in Sylmar, California.
Filmography
* ''
The Shock Punch
''The Shock Punch'' is a 1925 American silent boxing drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It starred Richard Dix and Frances Howard.
Plot
Coming face-to-face with a couple of ruffians, champion bo ...
'' (1925) - Construction Site Security Guard (uncredited) (film debut)
* ''
The Knockout
''The Knockout'' is a 1914 American silent comedy film starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. It also features Charlie Chaplin in a small role, his seventeenth film for Keystone Studios. It is one of only a few films in which Chaplin's Little ...
'' (1925) - Steve McKenna
* '' Black Jack'' (1927) - Haskins
* ''
Turkish Delight
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'' (1927) - (uncredited)
* ''
Daredevil's Reward
''Daredevil's Reward'' is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by Eugene Forde and written by John Stone. The film stars Tom Mix, Natalie Joyce, Lawford Davidson, Billy Bletcher, Harry Cording, and William Welsh. The film was relea ...
'' (1928) - Second Heavy
* '' The Last Command'' (1928) - Revolutionist (uncredited)
* ''
Four Sons
''Four Sons'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed and produced by John Ford and written for the screen by Philip Klein from a story by I. A. R. Wylie first published in the '' Saturday Evening Post'' as "Grandmother Bernle Learns Her ...
'' (1928) - (uncredited)
* ''
Feel My Pulse
''Feel My Pulse'' is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Bebe Daniels.
A copy of ''Feel My Pulse'' is preserved in the Library of Congress archives.The Patriot'' (1928) - Stefan
* '' Sins of the Fathers'' (1928) - The Hijacker
* '' The Rescue'' (1929) - Belarab
* ''
The Squall
''The Squall'' is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Myrna Loy, Richard Tucker, Alice Joyce and Loretta Young, and based on the 1926 play ''The Squall'' by Jean Bart.
Plot
In Hungary, a beautiful, young ...
Bride of the Regiment
''Bride of the Regiment'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical film directed by John Francis Dillon and filmed entirely in Technicolor. The screenplay by Ray Harris and Humphrey Pearson is based on the book of the 1922 stage musical ''The Lady i ...
'' (1930) - Sgt. Dostal
* ''
Women Everywhere
''Women Everywhere'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical adventure film directed by Alexander Korda and starring J. Harold Murray, Fifi D'Orsay, and George Grossmith, Jr. It is set amongst the French Foreign Legion in North Africa.
The fi ...
'' (1930) - Legionnaire in Cafe (uncredited)
* ''
Rough Romance
''Rough Romance'' is a 1930 American lumberjack Western (genre), Western film directed by A. F. Erickson. The film stars George O'Brien (actor), George O'Brien, Helen Chandler, Antonio Moreno, Roy Stewart (silent film actor), Roy Stewart, and H ...
'' (1930) - Chick Carson
* ''
New Moon
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...
'' (1930) - Kirghiz Soldier at Fort Darvaz (uncredited)
* '' The Right of Way'' (1931) - Rouge's Henchman (uncredited)
* ''
The Conquering Horde
''The Conquering Horde'' is a 1931 American pre-Code Western directed by Edward Sloman and written by Emerson Hough, Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt. The film stars Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Claude Gillingwater, Ian Maclaren, Frank Rice ...
'' (1931) - Butch Daggett
* ''
I Like Your Nerve
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'' (1931) - San Arango Officer (uncredited)
* ''
Honor of the Family
''Honor of the Family'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film released by First National Pictures (a subsidiary of Warner Bros.), starring Bebe Daniels and Warren William. It was based on the play by Emil Fabre, from the Honoré de Balzac nov ...
'' (1931) - Kouski
* '' The Sea Ghost'' (1931) - Sailor Who Knocks Out Capt. Winter (uncredited)
* '' Over the Hill'' (1931) - Townsman (uncredited)
* ''
Mata Hari
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'' (1931) - Ivan (uncredited)
* '' Night Beat'' (1931) - Chill Scarpelli
* ''
Texas Cyclone
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'' (1932) - Jake Farwell
* ''
The World and the Flesh
''The World and the Flesh'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by John Cromwell and written by Oliver H.P. Garrett. The film stars George Bancroft, Miriam Hopkins, Alan Mowbray, George E. Stone, Mitchell Lewis, Max Wagner and Ha ...
'' (1932) - Ivanovitch
* ''
Forgotten Commandments
''Forgotten Commandments'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and William Schorr and written by James B. Fagan and Agnes Brand Leahy. The film stars Sari Maritza, Gene Raymond, Marguerite Churchill, Irving Pich ...
'' (1932) - Officer (uncredited)
* ''
Merrily We Go to Hell
''Merrily We Go to Hell'' is a 1932 pre-Code film directed by Dorothy Arzner, and starring Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney. Its title is an example of the sensationalistic titles that were common in the pre-Code era. Many newspapers refused to p ...
'' (1932) - Fred - Bartender (uncredited)
* ''
My Pal, the King
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'' (1932) - Palace Guard (uncredited)
* ''
Fighting for Justice
''Fighting for Justice'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code Western film, directed by Otto Brower. It stars Tim McCoy and Joyce Compton.
The Library of Congress has a copy of this feature.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection a ...
'' (1932) - Henchman (uncredited)
* ''
The Cabin in the Cotton
''The Cabin in the Cotton'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay by Paul Green is based on the novel of the same title by Harry Harrison Kroll.
The film perhaps is best known for a line of dialogue ...
'' (1932) - Ross Clinton (uncredited)
* '' The Face on the Barroom Floor'' (1932) - Steve the Doorman (uncredited)
* ''
Scarlet Dawn
''Scarlet Dawn'' is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama directed by William Dieterle and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Nancy Carroll as refugees from the Russian Revolution. It is based on the novel ''Revolt'' by Mary C. McCall, Jr.
...
'' (1932) - Revolutionary (uncredited)
* ''
Secrets of the French Police
''Secrets of the French Police'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code crime film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Gwili Andre, Gregory Ratoff, and Frank Morgan.
The film was made as a B film by RKO Radio Pictures, using some of the sets fr ...
'' (1932) - Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited)
* ''
File 113
''File 113'' is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Chester Franklin and starring Lew Cody, Mary Nolan and June Clyde.Pitts p.25 Monsieur Lecoq, a Parisian detective solves a series of crimes. It is based on a story by the ninetee ...
Sweepings
''Sweepings'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by John Cromwell, written by Lester Cohen, and starring Lionel Barrymore, Eric Linden, William Gargan, Gloria Stuart and Alan Dinehart. It was released on April 14, 1933, by RKO Pictu ...
The Girl in 419
''The Girl in 419'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alexander Hall and George Somnes and written by Allen Rivkin, Manuel Seff and P.J. Wolfson. The film stars James Dunn, Gloria Stuart, David Manners, William Harrigan, ...
'' (1933) - Henchman Driver (uncredited)
* '' The Man Who Dared'' (1933) - Coal Mine Boss (uncredited)
* ''
Captured!
''Captured!'' (aka ''Fellow Prisoners'') is a 1933 American pre-Code film about World War I prisoners of war in a German camp. The film was directed by Roy Del Ruth and stars Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ''Captured!'' was based ...
'' (1933) - First Orderly
* ''Narcotic'' (1933) - Dr. William G. Davis
* '' To the Last Man'' (1933) - Colby Man Fred (uncredited)
* ''
Roman Scandals
''Roman Scandals'' is a 1933 American black-and-white pre-Code musical film starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold and David Manners. It was directed by Frank Tuttle. The film features a number of intricate production ...
'' (1933) - Valerius' Soldier (uncredited)
* ''
The House of Rothschild
''The House of Rothschild'' is a 1934 American pre-Code historical drama film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring George Arliss, Loretta Young and Boris Karloff. It was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the play by George Hembert Westley ...
'' (1934) - Man in 1780 Sequence (uncredited)
* ''
Viva Villa!
''Viva Villa!'' is a 1934 American pre-Code film directed by Jack Conway and starring Wallace Beery as Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. The screenplay was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from the 1933 book '' Viva Villa!'' by Edgecumb Pinchon a ...
'' (1934) - Majordomo (uncredited)
* '' The Black Cat'' (1934) - Thamal
* ''
The Count of Monte Cristo
''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (french: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (''père'') completed in 1844. It is one of the author's more popular works, along with ''The Three Musketeers''. Li ...
'' (1934) - Jailer (uncredited)
* ''
Treasure Island
''Treasure Island'' (originally titled ''The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys''Hammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In ''A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion'', Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan. .) is an adventure no ...
'' (1934) - Henry - Pirate (uncredited)
* ''
Great Expectations
''Great Expectations'' is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (Great Expectations), Pip (the book is a ''bildungsroman''; a coming-of-age story). It ...
'' (1934) - Orlick
* ''
We Live Again
''We Live Again'' is a 1934 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Anna Sten and Fredric March. The film is an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1899 novel ''Resurrection'' (''Voskraeseniye''). The screenplay was written by Maxwell Anderson with ...
'' (1934) - Jailer (uncredited)
* ''
Strange Wives
''Strange Wives'' is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe, written by James Mulhauser, Barry Trivers, and Gladys Buchanan Unger, and starring Roger Pryor, June Clayworth, Esther Ralston, Hugh O'Connell, Ralph Forbes, and Cesa ...
'' (1934) - Tribesman
* ''
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
''The Man Who Reclaimed His Head'' is a 1934 American drama film directed by Edward Ludwig and written by Jean Bart and Samuel Ornitz. The film stars Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill, Juanita Quigley, Henry O'Neill and Henry Armetta. T ...
Charlie Chan in Paris
''Charlie Chan in Paris'' is the seventh film produced by Fox with Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. Long thought lost, it is available on DVD as part of Twentieth Century Fox Home Video's ''Charlie Chan Collection, Vol. 1''. Hamilton MacFadden di ...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opium ...
Les Misérables
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In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original ...
'' (1935) - Beam Warder (uncredited)
* '' Black Fury'' (1935) - Louie - a Miner (uncredited)
* ''
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) - Polack (uncredited)
* ''
The Crusades
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'' (1935) - Amir (uncredited)
* ''
Anna Karenina
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'' (1935) - Officer at Banquet (uncredited)
* ''
Ladies Love Danger
''Ladies Love Danger'' is a 1935 American comedy film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and written by Samson Raphaelson, Robert Ellis and Helen Logan. The film stars Mona Barrie, Gilbert Roland, Donald Cook, Adrienne Ames, Hardie Albright a ...
'' (1935) - Stagehand (uncredited)
* ''
Peter Ibbetson
''Peter Ibbetson'' is a 1935 American black-and-white drama/ fantasy film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Gary Cooper and Ann Harding. The film is loosely based on the 1891 novel of the same name by George du Maurier. A tale of a love th ...
'' (1935) - Guard (uncredited)
* ''
Mutiny on the Bounty
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'' (1935) - Soldier (uncredited)
* ''
Ship Cafe
''Ship Cafe'' is a 1935 American musical film directed by Robert Florey.
Cast
* Carl Brisson as Chris Anderson
* Arline Judge as Ruby
* Mady Christians as Countess Boranoff
* William Frawley as Briney O'Brien
* Eddie Davis as Eddie Davis
* ...
Riffraff
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In music
* Riff Raff (rapper), from Texas
* Riff Raff (band), a UK progressive rock band
* Riff Raff, a band formed by Billy Bragg
* ' ...
'' (1936) - Joe - Agitator (uncredited)
* ''
Road Gang
''Road Gang'' is a 1936 film directed by Louis King, written by Dalton Trumbo, produced by Bryan Foy, and starring Donald Woods and Kay Linaker. The film shows economic and social injustice due to political corruption.
Premise
The managing ...
'' (1936) - Sam Dawson
* ''
Sutter's Gold
''Sutter's Gold'' is a 1936 American Western film. It is a fictionalized version of the aftermath of the discovery of gold on Sutter's property, spurring the California Gold Rush of 1849. Edward Arnold plays John Sutter. The supporting cast i ...
'' (1936) - Seaman Lars (uncredited)
* '' The Country Doctor'' (1936) - Logger (uncredited)
* '' The White Angel'' (1936) - Hospital Storekeeper (uncredited)
* '' Suzy'' (1936) - Madame Eyrelle's Chauffeur (uncredited)
* ''
The Last of the Mohicans
''The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757'' is a historical romance written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826.
It is the second book of the ''Leatherstocking Tales'' pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. '' The Pathfinder ...
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone (September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which was then beyond the we ...
'' (1936) - Joe Burch
* '' You Only Live Once'' (1937) - Guard (uncredited)
* ''
Maid of Salem
''Maid of Salem'' is a 1937 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Frank Lloyd, and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.
Plot
It tells the story of a young girl in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, who has an affair with an adventurer. ...
The Soldier and the Lady
''The Soldier and the Lady'' is the 1937 American adventure film version of the oft-produced 1876 Jules Verne novel, '' Michel Strogoff''. Produced by Pandro S. Berman, he hired as his associate producer, Joseph Ermolieff. Ermolieff had produc ...
'' (1937) - Peasant (uncredited)
* ''
The Prince and the Pauper
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'' (1937) - Second Guard
* ''
The Road Back
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'' (1937) - Attendant (uncredited)
* ''
Fit for a King
''Fit for a King'' is a 1937 American film starring Joe E. Brown and directed by Edward Sedgwick.
Plot summary
Newspaper reporter "Scoop (term), Scoops" (Brown) is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Arc ...
'' (1937) - Thug (uncredited)
* ''
Conquest
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Military history provides many examples of conquest: the Roman conquest of Britain, the Mauryan conquest of Afghanistan and of vast areas of the Indian subcontinent, t ...
'' (1937) - Cossack (uncredited)
* ''
The Adventures of Marco Polo
''The Adventures of Marco Polo'' is a 1938 adventure film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, and Basil Rathbone. It was one of the most elaborate and costly of Samuel Goldwyn's productions.
Plot
Nicolo Polo shows t ...
'' (1938) - Kaidu Officer (uncredited)
* ''
Crime School
''Crime School'' is a 1938 Warner Bros. film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart.
Plot
A junkman does business with the Dead End Kids: Frankie, Squirt, Spike, Goofy, Fats, and Bugs. When the boys ask for ...
'' (1938) - Jim - the Second Guard (uncredited)
* ''
The Adventures of Robin Hood
''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' is a 1938 American Technicolor swashbuckler film from Warner Bros. Pictures. It was produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke, directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, and stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de H ...
'' (1938) - Dickon Malbete
* ''
Marie Antoinette
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Heart of the North
''Heart of the North'' is a 1938 American adventure film directed by Lewis Seiler and written by Lee Katz and Vincent Sherman. The film stars Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson, Gale Page, Allen Jenkins, Patric Knowles, and Janet Chapman. The film was r ...
'' (1938) - Miner Leading Mob (uncredited)
* ''
A Christmas Carol
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'' (1938) - Waiter (uncredited)
* '' Stand Up and Fight'' (1939) - Bullet Line Blacksmith (uncredited)
* '' Devil's Island'' (1939) - Guard Accepting Bribe (uncredited)
* ''
Son of Frankenstein
''Son of Frankenstein'' is a 1939 American horror film that was directed by Rowland V. Lee and stars Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. The film is the third in Universal Pictures' ''Frankenstein'' series and is the follow-up to the ...
'' (1939) - Bearded Gendarme (uncredited)
* ''
Arizona Legion
''Arizona Legion'' is a 1939 American Western film directed by David Howard from a screenplay by Oliver Drake, based on Bernard McConville's story. Produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, it was released on January 20, 1939, and stars ...
'' (1939) - Whiskey Joe
* ''
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' or as it is known in more recent editions, ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'', is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United St ...
'' (1939) - Man Stealing Watermelon (uncredited)
* ''North of the Yukon'' (1939) - MacGregor
* ''
Racketeers of the Range
''Racketeers of the Range'' is a 1939 American Western film directed by D. Ross Lederman from a screenplay by Oliver Drake, based on Bernard McConville's story. Produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, the film was released on May 26 ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' is a collection of twelve short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, w ...
'' (1939) - Cragin (uncredited)
* ''
Outpost of the Mounties
''Outpost of the Mounties'' is a 1939 American Western film directed by Charles C. Coleman and starring Charles Starrett.
Plot
In this adventure, a courageous Canadian Mountie must bring peace to an embattled miner and an unscrupulous trader ...
'' (1939) - Trapper Mac (uncredited)
* ''
The Marshal of Mesa City
''The Marshal of Mesa City'' is a 1939 American Western film directed by David Howard from a screenplay by Jack Lait Jr..
Although no story credit was given, this film bears a striking similarity to the 1935 western, ''The Arizonian'', whose s ...
'' (1939) - Bat Cardigan - Henchman
* ''
Rulers of the Sea
''Rulers of the Sea'' is a 1939 American historical drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Margaret Lockwood and Will Fyffe. The film's story is based on the voyage of the , the first steamship to cross the North ...
'' (1939) - Seaman (uncredited)
* ''
Tower of London
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'' (1939) - Lead Murderer of the Children (uncredited)
* '' We Are Not Alone'' (1939) - Man Carrying Leni (uncredited)
* ''
Destry Rides Again
''Destry Rides Again'' is a 1939 American Western comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart. The supporting cast includes Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger, Brian Donlevy, Allen Jenkins, Irene Hervey ...
The Light That Failed
''The Light That Failed'' is the first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling, first published in ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine'' in January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events through ...
'' (1939) - Soldier (uncredited)
* ''
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' (french: Notre-Dame de Paris, translation=''Our Lady of Paris'', originally titled ''Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482'') is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. It focuses on the unfortunate story ...
'' (1939) - Guard (uncredited)
* ''
The Invisible Man Returns
''The Invisible Man Returns'' is a 1940 American horror science fiction film directed by Joe May. The film stars Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey and John Sutton. The film is a sequel to the 1933 film ''The Invisible Man'', and the sec ...
'' (1940) - Miner Saying 'Keep the Wig on Willie' (uncredited)
* ''
The Grapes of Wrath
''The Grapes of Wrath'' is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award
and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize ...
'' (1940) - Deputy (uncredited)
* '' Little Old New York'' (1940) - Man in Mob About to Set 'Clermont' Afire (uncredited)
* ''
The House of the Seven Gables
''The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance'' is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their anc ...
Virginia City
Virginia City is a census-designated place (CDP) that is the county seat of Storey County, Nevada, and the largest community in the county. The city is a part of the Reno– Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Virginia City developed as a boom ...
'' (1940) - Scarecrow - Union Prisoner at Libby (uncredited)
* ''
Dark Command
''Dark Command'' is a 1940 Western film starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne and Walter Pidgeon loosely based on Quantrill's Raiders during the American Civil War. Directed by Raoul Walsh from the novel by W. R. Burnett, ''Dark Command'' is the on ...
'' (1940) - Angry Townsman in Bank (uncredited)
* ''
Texas Stagecoach
''Texas Stagecoach'' is a 1940 American Western film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and written by Fred Myton. The film stars Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Bob Nolan, Dick Curtis, Kenneth MacDonald and Pat Brady. The film was released on May ...
The Sea Hawk
''The Sea Hawk'' is a 1915 novel by Rafael Sabatini. The story is set over the years 1588–1593 and concerns a retired Cornish seafaring gentleman, Sir Oliver Tressilian, who is villainously betrayed by a jealous half-brother. After being ...
'' (1940) - Slavemaster
* ''
When the Daltons Rode
''When the Daltons Rode'' is a 1940 American Western film directed by George Marshall and starring Randolph Scott, Kay Francis and Brian Donlevy. Based on the 1931 book of the same name by Emmett Dalton, a member of the Dalton Gang, and Jack Ju ...
'' (1940) - Rigby Henchman (uncredited)
* ''
Stage to Chino
''Stage to Chino'' is a 1940 American Western film directed by Edward Killy from a screenplay by Morton Grant and Arthur V. Jones, based on a story by Norton S. Parker. The film was released by RKO Radio Pictures on July 26, 1940, who also p ...
'' (1940) - Pete - Henchman
* ''
King of the Royal Mounted
''King of the Royal Mounted'' is an American comics series which debuted February 17, 1935 by Stephen Slesinger, based on popular Western writer Zane Grey's byline and marketed as ''Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted''. The series' protagonist ...
'' (1940, Serial) - Wade Garson
* ''
A Dispatch from Reuters
''A Dispatch from Reuters'' is a 1940 biographical film about Paul Reuter, the man who built the famous news service that bears his name.''Harrison's Reports'' review; November 2, 1940, page 174.
Story behind Reuters
Paul Reuter starts a messe ...
'' (1940) - Sailor on the Nova Scotian (uncredited)
* ''
Law and Order
In modern politics, law and order is the approach focusing on harsher enforcement and penalties as ways to reduce crime. Penalties for perpetrators of disorder may include longer terms of imprisonment, mandatory sentencing, three-strikes laws a ...
'' (1940) - Poe Daggett
* ''
Trail of the Vigilantes
''Trail of the Vigilantes'' is a 1940 75-minute black-and-white Western comedy directed by Allan Dwan, written by Harold Shumate, and featuring Franchot Tone, Warren William, Broderick Crawford and Andy Devine
Andrew Vabre Devine (October 7 ...
Santa Fe Trail
The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri, with Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell, who departed from the Boonslick region along the Missouri River, th ...
'' (1940) - Workman in Delaware Crossing (uncredited)
* ''
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
''The Green Hornet Strikes Again!'' is a 1941 Universal black-and-white 15 chapter movie serial based on ''The Green Hornet'' radio series by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker. It is a sequel to Universal's earlier serial ''The Green Hornet'' ...
The San Francisco Docks
''The San Francisco Docks'' is a 1940 American crime drama film directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Burgess Meredith, Barry Fitzgerald, and Irene Hervey.
Plot
When his sweetheart, barmaid Kitty Tracy, is annoyed by a customer, longshoreman Jo ...
'' (1940) - Collins (uncredited)
* ''
So Ends Our Night
''So Ends Our Night'' is a 1941 drama directed by John Cromwell (director), John Cromwell and starring Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan and Glenn Ford. The screenplay was adapted by Talbot Jennings from the novel ''Flotsam (novel), Flotsam'' by G ...
'' (1941) - Card Player (uncredited)
* ''
Rage in Heaven
''Rage in Heaven'' is a 1941 American psychological thriller film noir about the destructive power of jealousy. It was directed by W.S. Van Dyke and based on the 1932 novel by James Hilton. It features Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, and Geo ...
Back in the Saddle
"Back in the Saddle" is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. It is the first track on Aerosmith's hard rock album '' Rocks'' released in 1976. The song was also released as the thir ...
The Lady from Cheyenne
''The Lady from Cheyenne'' is a 1941 American comedy western film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Loretta Young, Robert Preston and Edward Arnold.
Plot
In the 1860s, after receiving an inheritance a Philadelphia Quaker school teacher h ...
'' (1941) - Mike, Cork's Henchman (uncredited)
* '' Mutiny in the Arctic'' (1941) - Harmon
* ''
Singapore Woman
''Singapore Woman'' is a 1941 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Brenda Marshall and David Bruce.
The Warner Bros. B picture is a remake of '' Dangerous'' (1935) using leftover sets from '' The Letter'' (1940). The s ...
'' (1941) - Crow's Nest Manager (uncredited)
* ''
They Met in Bombay
''They Met in Bombay '' is a 1941 American adventure drama film directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Clark Gable and Rosalind Russell, with Peter Lorre.''Variety'' film review; June 25, 1941, page 16.''Harrison's Reports'' film review; July 5 ...
'' (1941) - Corporal at Base (uncredited)
* ''
Raiders of the Desert
''Raiders of the Desert'' is a 1941 American comedy adventure film directed by John Rawlins and starring Andy Devine, Richard Arlen and Linda Hayes. The film was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. It features an early appearance by ...
'' (1941) - Rawlins
* ''
Rawhide Rangers
''Rawhide Rangers'' is a 1941 American Western film directed by Ray Taylor and written by Ed Earl Repp. The film stars Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Kathryn Adams Doty, Nell O'Day, Riley Hill and Harry Cording. The film was released on Jul ...
'' (1941) - Blackie
* ''
Badlands of Dakota
''Badlands of Dakota'' is a 1941 American Western film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Robert Stack, Ann Rutherford, Richard Dix and Frances Farmer. Its plot follows a sheriff and his girlfriend who cross paths with Wild Bill Hickok a ...
'' (1941) - Jackson (uncredited)
* ''
Lydia
Lydia (Lydian language, Lydian: 𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age Monarchy, kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the mod ...
'' (1941) - Hotel House Detective (uncredited)
* '' The Wolf Man'' (1941) - Wykes (uncredited)
* ''
Riders of the Badlands
''Riders of the Badlands'' is a 1941 American Western film directed by Howard Bretherton and written by Betty Burbridge. The film stars Charles Starrett, Russell Hayden, Cliff Edwards, Ilene Brewer, Kay Hughes and Roy Barcroft. The film was rel ...
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
''Wild Bill Hickok Rides'' is a 1942 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Constance Bennett, Bruce Cabot and Warren William. Bennett was paid $10,000 for her appearance, a significant drop from what she had recently been e ...
'' (1942) - Saloon Bouncer (uncredited)
* '' Ride 'Em Cowboy'' (1942) - Poker Player (uncredited)
* ''
The Ghost of Frankenstein
''The Ghost of Frankenstein'' is a 1942 American horror film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Cedric Hardwicke, Lon Chaney Jr. and Bela Lugosi. It is the fourth film in the ''Frankenstein'' series by Universal Pictures, and the follow-up ...
The Voice of Terror
''Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror'' is a 1942 American mystery film, mystery thriller film based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. The film combines elements of Doyle's short story "His Last Bow (story), His L ...
Overland Mail
Butterfield Overland Mail (officially the Overland Mail Company)Waterman L. Ormsby, edited by Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum, "The Butterfield Overland Mail", The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1991. was a stagecoach service ...
'' (1942) - Sam Gregg - Henchman
* ''
A Yank at Eton
''A Yank at Eton'' is an American comedy-drama film directed by Norman Taurog for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Mickey Rooney, Ian Hunter, and Peter Lawford. Released in 1942, it is a kind of junior thematic sequel to MGM's British-made f ...
'' (1942) - Bartender (uncredited)
* ''
The Mummy's Tomb
''The Mummy's Tomb'' is a 1942 American horror film directed by Harold Young and starring Lon Chaney Jr. as Kharis the mummy. Taking place 30 years after the events of '' The Mummy's Hand'', where Andoheb (George Zucco) has survived and plans re ...
'' (1942) - Vic - Farmer (uncredited)
* ''
Road to Morocco
''Road to Morocco'' is a 1942 American comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, and featuring Anthony Quinn and Dona Drake. The film, which was written by Frank Butler and Don Hartman and directed by David Butler for Para ...
'' (1942) - Warrior (uncredited)
* ''
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...
'' (1942) - Miner (uncredited)
* ''
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
''Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon'' (1942) is the fourth in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of 14 Sherlock Holmes films which updated the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the then present day. The film is credited as ...
'' (1942) - Jack Brady (uncredited)
* '' Arabian Nights'' (1942) - Blacksmith
* ''
Tennessee Johnson
''Tennessee Johnson'' is a 1942 American film about Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United States, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by William Dieterle and written by Milton Gunzburg, Alvin Meyers, John Balderston, and We ...
'' (1942) - Captain McGruder (uncredited)
* ''
Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas
''Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas'' is a war film made by Twentieth Century Fox in 1943. The film starred Philip Dorn, Anna Sten, and Martin Kosleck.
The film was originally titled ''The Seventh Column''. It was directed by Louis King and i ...
'' (1943) - German Sergeant (uncredited)
* ''
The Moon Is Down
''The Moon Is Down'' is a novel by American writer John Steinbeck. Fashioned for adaptation for the theatre and for which Steinbeck received the Norwegian King Haakon VII Freedom Cross, it was published by Viking Press in March 1942. The story ...
'' (1943) - Albert - Miner (uncredited)
* ''
Mission to Moscow
''Mission to Moscow'' is a 1943 film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on the 1941 book by the former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, Joseph E. Davies.
The movie chronicles the experiences of the second American ambassador to the Soviet ...
'' (1943) - Blacksmith (uncredited)
* ''
Two Tickets to London
''Two Tickets to London'' is a 1943 drama film made by Universal Pictures, and directed by Edwin L. Marin. The screenplay was written by Tom Reed, based on story by Roy William Neill. The film stars Michèle Morgan and Alan Curtis.
Premise
A U ...
'' (1943) - Sutliff (uncredited)
* '' Fugitive from Sonora'' (1943) - Iron Joe Martin
* ''
For Whom the Bell Tolls
''For Whom the Bell Tolls'' is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a Republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned ...
'' (1943) - Man Who Flails the Mayor (uncredited)
* ''
The Man from Down Under
''The Man from Down Under'' is an American 1943 drama film starring Charles Laughton as a man who raises two war orphans.
It was called "Hollywood's first full-length film dealing exclusively with Australia and Australians".
Plot
After the end ...
The Spider Woman
''The Spider Woman'' (alternatively titled ''Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman'' and ''Spider Woman'') is a 1943 mystery film starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, the seventh of fourteen such films the p ...
'' (1943) - Fred Garvin - Henchman on Roof (uncredited)
* '' Klondike Kate'' (1943) - Irate Miner Gambler (uncredited)
* '' The Song of Bernadette'' (1943) - Stonemason (uncredited)
* ''
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" ( ar, علي بابا والأربعون لصا) is a folk tale from the ''One Thousand and One Nights''. It was added to the collection in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard ...
Phantom Lady
Phantom Lady is a fictional superheroine, one of the first such characters to debut in the 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books. Originally published by Quality Comics, the character was subsequently published by a series of now-defunct comic book com ...
'' (1944) - Courtroom Spectator Next to Carol (uncredited)
* ''
Passage to Marseille
''Passage to Marseille'', also known as ''Message to Marseille'', is a 1944 American war film made by Warner Brothers, directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay was by Casey Robinson and Jack Moffitt from the novel ''Sans Patrie'' (''Men Withou ...
'' (1944) - Chief Guard (uncredited)
* ''
The Great Alaskan Mystery
''The Great Alaskan Mystery'' is a 1944 Universal film serial about government agents trying to stop Nazi spies from getting their hands on futuristic weapons.
Plot
James 'Jim' Hudson, an adventurer and accompanied by allies, goes after Nazi age ...
The Pearl of Death
''The Pearl of Death'' is a 1944 Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, the ninth of fourteen such films the pair made. The story is loosely based on Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the ...
'' (1944) - George Gelder (uncredited)
* ''
Gypsy Wildcat
''Gypsy Wildcat'' is a 1944 Technicolor adventure film directed by Roy William Neil starring Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Peter Coe. It was co-written by James M. Cain.
Plot
A king's messenger ( Jon Hall) protects a Gypsy dancer (Maria Montez) ...
An American Romance
''An American Romance'' is a 1944 American epic drama film directed and produced by King Vidor, who also wrote the screen story. Shot in Technicolor, the film stars Brian Donlevy and Ann Richards and is narrated by Horace McNally. The film is ...
'' (1944) - Workman in Meeting (uncredited)
* ''
Mrs. Parkington
''Mrs. Parkington'' is a 1944 drama film. It tells the story of a woman's life, told via flashbacks, from boarding house maid to society matron. The movie was adapted by Polly James and Robert Thoeren from the novel by Louis Bromfield. It was ...
'' (1944) - Humphrey
* ''
Lost in a Harem
''Lost in a Harem'' is a 1944 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and starring the team of Abbott and Costello alongside Marilyn Maxwell.
Plot
When a traveling vaudeville show becomes stranded in the Middle East, their singer, Haze ...
'' (1944) - Police Chief (uncredited)
* ''
Bluebeard
"Bluebeard" (french: Barbe bleue, ) is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697 in ''Histoires ou contes du temps passé''. The tale tells the st ...
'' (1944) - Policeman (uncredited)
* ''
The Man in Half Moon Street
''The Man in Half Moon Street'' is a 1945 science fiction romantic melodrama dealing with a man who retains his youth and cannot die, living throughout the ages. The plot is similar to Oscar Wilde's '' Picture of Dorian Gray'', except that t ...
'' (1945) - First Bobby (uncredited)
* '' Jungle Queen'' (1945, Serial) - Husky Deck Sailor (uncredited)
* '' The House of Fear'' (1945) - John Simpson
* ''
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
Captain Kidd
William Kidd, also known as Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd ( – 23 May 1701), was a Scottish sea captain who was commissioned as a privateer and had experience as a pirate. He was tried and executed in London in 1701 for murder a ...
San Antonio
("Cradle of Freedom")
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'' (1945) - Hawker (uncredited)
* ''
The Fighting Guardsman
''The Fighting Guardsman'' is a 1946 American adventure film directed by Henry Levin.
It was a swashbuckler starring Willard Parker based on a novel by Alexander Dumas.
Plot
A French baron (Willard Parker) leads rebels like a Robin Hood, steal ...
'' (1946) - Tax Collector (uncredited)
* ''
Terror by Night
''Terror by Night'' is a 1946 Sherlock Holmes crime drama directed by Roy William Neill and starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The story revolves around the theft of a famous diamond aboard a train.
The film's plot is a mostly original st ...
'' (1946) - Mock the coffin maker (uncredited)
* ''
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
''The Bandit of Sherwood Forest'' is a 1946 American Technicolor adventure film directed by Henry Levin & George Sherman and starring Cornel Wilde, Anita Louise, Jill Esmond and Edgar Buchanan.
Plot
Robin Hood's son (Cornel Wilde) returns to s ...
'' (1946) - Prioress Guard (uncredited)
* ''
Devotion
Devotion or Devotions may refer to:
Religion
* Faith, confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept
* Anglican devotions, private prayers and practices used by Anglican Christians
* Buddhist devotion, commitment to religious observance
* Cat ...
'' (1946) - Coachman with Frightened Horses (uncredited)
* '' Night in Paradise'' (1946) - Captain (uncredited)
* '' Dressed to Kill'' (1946) - Hamid
* ''
Inside Job
An insider threat is a malicious threat to an organization that comes from people within the organization, such as employees, former employees, contractors or business associates, who have inside information concerning the organization's security ...
'' (1946) - Bartender (uncredited)
* ''
Hot Cargo
Hot or the acronym HOT may refer to:
Food and drink
*Pungency, in food, a spicy or hot quality
*Hot, a wine tasting descriptor
Places
* Hot district, a district of Chiang Mai province, Thailand
**Hot subdistrict, a sub-district of Hot Distric ...
'' (1946) - Matt Wayne
* ''
The Verdict
''The Verdict'' is a 1982 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by David Mamet, adapted from Barry Reed's 1980 novel of the same name. It stars Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea, an ...
'' (1946) - Tough Englishman (uncredited)
* ''
Renegade Girl
''Renegade Girl'' is a 1946 American Western (genre), western film directed by William Berke and starring Ann Savage (actress), Ann Savage, Alan Curtis (American actor), Alan Curtis and Edward Brophy. It was one of a few movies made by the shor ...
'' (1946) - Miller
* ''
Fool's Gold
The mineral pyrite (), or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula Fe S2 (iron (II) disulfide). Pyrite is the most abundant sulfide mineral.
Pyrite's metallic luster and pale brass-yellow hue giv ...
'' (1946) - Henchman Duke
* ''
California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...
'' (1947) - Miner (uncredited)
* ''
Calcutta
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern ba ...
Dangerous Venture
''Dangerous Venture'' is a 1947 American Western film directed by George Archainbaud and written by Doris Schroeder. The film stars William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Fritz Leiber, Douglas Evans and Harry Cording. The film was released on ...
The Exile
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the ...
'' (1947) - Roundhead (uncredited)
* '' Forever Amber'' (1947) - Minor Role (uncredited)
* ''
Trail of the Mounties
''Trail of the Mounties'', also known as ''Law of the Mounties'', is a 1947 American Western film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Russell Hayden, Jennifer Holt, and Emmett Lynn.
Premise
A Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman is seeking ...
A Woman's Vengeance
''A Woman's Vengeance'' is a 1948 American film noir drama mystery film directed by Zoltán Korda and starring Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Rachel Kempson, and Mildred Natwick. The screenplay by Aldous Huxley was ...
'' (1948) - Chauffeur McNabb
* ''
The Black Arrow
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...
'' (1948) - Guard (uncredited)
* ''
Dangers of the Canadian Mounted
''Dangers of the Canadian Mounted'' is a 1948 Northern Republic film serial.
Plot
A criminal gang discovers a Genghis Khan treasure ship on the Canada-Alaska border. However, the treasure itself is hidden on land. In their efforts to find the ...
'' (1948) - Track Heavy #2 (uncredited)
* '' 13 Lead Soldiers'' (1948) - Edward Vane
* ''
Tap Roots
''Tap Roots'' is a 1948 Technicolor Western war film set during the American Civil War. It is very loosely based on the true life story of Newton Knight, a farm owner who attempted to secede Jones County from Mississippi.Stephen Jacobs, ''Bor ...
'' (1948) - Leader (uncredited)
* ''
A Southern Yankee
''A Southern Yankee'' is a 1948 American comedy western film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy and Arlene Dahl.
The film is loosely based on Buster Keaton's '' The General'' (1926). Skelton plays a Union soldi ...
'' (1948) - Guerrilla Horseman (uncredited)
* ''
That Lady in Ermine
''That Lady in Ermine'' is a 1948 American Technicolor musical film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay by Samson Raphaelson is based on the 1919 operetta ''Die Frau im Hermelin'' by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch.
Although Lubitsc ...
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
''Kiss the Blood Off My Hands'' is a 1948 American noir-thriller film directed by Norman Foster. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Gerald Butler, it stars Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster and Robert Newton. The film faced minor ...
'' (1948) - Policeman (uncredited)
* ''
Bad Men of Tombstone
''Bad Men of Tombstone'' is a 1949 American Western film from King Brothers Productions. It was co-written by Philip Yordan and stars Barry Sullivan and Broderick Crawford. King Brothers announced plans for a sequel, ''The Marshall of Tombsto ...
Lust for Gold
''Lust for Gold'' is a 1949 American Western film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Ida Lupino and Glenn Ford. The film is about the legendary Lost Dutchman gold mine, starring Ford as the "Dutchman" and Lupino as the woman he loves. ...
'' (1949) - Joe (uncredited)
* ''
The Secret of St. Ives
''The Secret of St. Ives'' is a 1949 American historical adventure film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown and Henry Daniell. It is adapted from the 1897 novel '' St. Ives'' by Robert Louis Stevenson.Goble p.442 Set du ...
'' (1949) - Innkeeper (uncredited)
* ''
Rope of Sand
''Rope of Sand'' is a 1949 adventure-suspense film noir directed by William Dieterle, produced by Hal Wallis, and starring Burt Lancaster and three stars from Wallis's '' Casablanca'' - Paul Henreid, Claude Rains and Peter Lorre. The film intro ...
'' (1949) - Guard (uncredited)
* ''
Challenge to Lassie
''Challenge to Lassie'' is an American drama directed by Richard Thorpe in Technicolor and released October 31, 1949, by MGM Studios. It was the fifth feature film starring the original Lassie, a collie named Pal, and the fourth and final ''La ...
'' (1949) - Adam, the Blacksmith (uncredited)
* ''
Samson and Delilah
Samson and Delilah are Biblical
figures.
Samson and Delilah may also refer to:
In music
* ''Samson and Delilah'' (opera), an opera by Camille Saint-Saëns
* ''Samson & Delilah'' (album), released in 2013 by V V Brown
* "Samson and Delilah" (t ...
'' (1949) - Prince (uncredited)
* '' Tyrant of the Sea'' (1950) - Sampson Edwards - Sailor
* ''
Buccaneer's Girl
''Buccaneer's Girl'' is a 1950 American Technicolor romantic adventure film directed by Frederick de Cordova starring Yvonne De Carlo and Philip Friend.
Plot
Deborah McCoy, a New Orleans singer, is on a ship that is captured by the forces of t ...
'' (1950) - Man in Pub (uncredited)
* ''
Cargo to Capetown
''Cargo to Capetown'' is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Earl McEvoy and starring Broderick Crawford, Ellen Drew and John Ireland.Blottner p.30 The film reunited the stars of ''All the King's Men'', a major commercial and critical hi ...
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
''Rogues of Sherwood Forest'' is a 1950 Technicolor adventure film from Columbia Pictures, directed by Gordon Douglas, and starring John Derek as Robin, the Earl of Huntingdon, the son of Robin Hood, Diana Lynn as Lady Marianne, and Alan Hale, S ...
Convicted
In law, a conviction is the verdict reached by a court of law finding a defendant guilty of a crime. The opposite of a conviction is an acquittal (that is, "not guilty"). In Scotland, there can also be a verdict of " not proven", which is co ...
Copper Canyon
Copper Canyon (Spanish: Barrancas del Cobre) is a group of six distinct canyons in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the southwestern part of the state of Chihuahua in northwestern Mexico that is in size. The canyons were formed by six rivers tha ...
'' (1950) - Miner (uncredited)
* ''
Last of the Buccaneers
''Last of the Buccaneers'' is a 1950 American Technicolor adventure film directed by Lew Landers and starring Paul Henreid as Jean Lafitte.
Plot
Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a Br ...
'' (1950) - Sailor Cragg Brown
* ''
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
''Al Jennings of Oklahoma'' is a 1951 American Western film directed by Ray Nazarro and starring Dan Duryea and Gale Storm. It is based on the story of Al Jennings, a former train robber turned attorney.
Premise
Ex-lawyer becomes leader of not ...
'' (1951) - Mike Bridges
* '' Up Front'' (1951) - Minor Role
* '' Santa Fe'' (1951) - Moose Legrande
* ''
Sirocco
Sirocco ( ), scirocco, or, rarely, siroc (see below) is a Mediterranean wind that comes from the Sahara and can reach hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe, especially during the summer season.
Names
''Sirocco'' derives from ...
'' (1951) - Master Sergeant (uncredited)
* ''
Mask of the Avenger
''Mask of the Avenger'' is a 1951 American historical adventure film directed by Phil Karlson starring John Derek, Anthony Quinn and Jody Lawrance.
Derek portrays Renatu Dimorna, the son of an Italian aristocrat, who vows revenge after his fathe ...
'' (1951) - Zio d'Orsini
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Iron Man
Iron Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was co-created by writer and editor Stan Lee, developed by scripter Larry Lieber, and designed by artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby. The charact ...
The Big Trees
''The Big Trees'' is a 1952 in film, 1952 lumberjack western film, Western film starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Felix E. Feist. It was Kirk Douglas's final film for Warner Brothers, a film he did for free in exchange for the studio agreei ...
'' (1952) - Cleve Gregg
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Night Stage to Galveston
''Night Stage to Galveston'' is a 1952 American Western film directed by George Archainbaud and written by Norman S. Hall. The film stars Gene Autry, Virginia Huston, Thurston Hall, Judy Nugent, Robert Livingston and Harry Cording. The film w ...
'' (1952) - Ted Driscoll
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The San Francisco Story
''The San Francisco Story'' is a 1952 American Western film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Joel McCrea and Yvonne De Carlo. The rough and tumble Barbary Coast of San Francisco is recreated with attention to detail, including Florence ...
'' (1952) - Card Player (uncredited)
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Brave Warrior
''Brave Warrior'' is a 1952 Technicolor American Western film, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet. It stars Jon Hall and Christine Larsen. The story is based on events during the War of 1812 and the Battle of Tippecanoe, but contains historical ...
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
''Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair'' is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Charles Barton. It is the fourth installment of Universal-International's ''Ma and Pa Kettle'' series starring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride.
Plot
Ma and Pa Kettl ...
Plymouth Adventure
''Plymouth Adventure'' is a 1952 Technicolor drama film with an ensemble cast starring Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson and Leo Genn, made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Clarence Brown, and produced by Dore Schary. The screenplay ...
'' (1952) - Aide to Head Constable (uncredited)
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Road to Bali
''Road to Bali'' is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Released by Paramount Pictures on November 19, 1952, the film is the sixth of the seven ''Road to …'' movies. It w ...
'' (1952) - Verna's Father (uncredited)
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Against All Flags
''Against All Flags'' is a 1952 American pirate film directed by George Sherman and Douglas Sirk and starring Errol Flynn as Brian Hawke, Maureen O'Hara as Prudence "Spitfire" Stevens and Anthony Quinn as Roc Brasiliano. The film's plot is set in ...
Treasure of the Golden Condor
''Treasure of the Golden Condor'' is a 1953 American Technicolor adventure film directed by Delmer Daves, starring Cornel Wilde and Constance Smith, and released by Twentieth Century Fox. The film is a remake of the 1942 film '' Son of Fury: T ...
Titanic
RMS ''Titanic'' was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United ...
Ambush at Tomahawk Gap
''Ambush at Tomahawk Gap'' is a 1953 American Western film directed by Fred F. Sears and produced by Wallace MacDonald. It stars John Hodiak, John Derek, David Brian, and María Elena Marqués.
Plot
Four outlaws have just been released from ...
'' (1953) - Stableman (uncredited)
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Law and Order
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Man in the Attic
''Man in the Attic'' is a 1953 mystery film directed by Hugo Fregonese. It was released in the United States on December 23 by Twentieth Century Fox. The movie is based on the 1913 novel '' The Lodger'' by Marie Belloc Lowndes, which fictionaliz ...
'' (1953) - Detective Sgt. Bates
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Demetrius and the Gladiators
''Demetrius and the Gladiators'' is a 1954 American biblical drama film and a sequel to '' The Robe''. The picture was made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Delmer Daves and produced by Frank Ross. The screenplay was written by Philip Dunne ...
'' (1954) - Guard-Escort of Prisoners (uncredited)
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King Richard and the Crusaders
''King Richard and the Crusaders'' is a 1954 American historical drama film made by Warner Bros. The film stars Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders and Laurence Harvey, with Robert Douglas, Michael Pate and Paula Raymond. It was direct ...
Killer Leopard
''Killer Leopard'' is a 1954 American adventure film directed by Ford Beebe and starring Johnny Sheffield and Beverly Garland. It was the eleventh in the twelve-film ''Bomba, the Jungle Boy'' series made by Allied Artists.
Plot
Bomba is hunting ...
'' (1954) - Supt. Saunders (uncredited)
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The Black Shield of Falworth
''The Black Shield of Falworth'' is a 1954 American Technicolor film from Universal-International, produced by Robert Arthur and Melville Tucker and directed by Rudolph Maté. It stars Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar, Herbert Marshall, an ...
'' (1954) - Captain of King's Guards (uncredited)
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Down Three Dark Streets
''Down Three Dark Streets'' is a 1954 American film noir crime film directed by Arnold Laven and starring Broderick Crawford and Ruth Roman. The screenplay was written by Gordon Gordon and Mildred Gordon, based on their novel ''Case File FBI'' ...
'' (1954) - Man Getting Rubdown (uncredited)
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Jungle Gents
''Jungle Gents'' is a 1954 American comedy film directed by Edward Bernds and starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on September 5, 1954 by Allied Artists and is the thirty-fifth film in the series and the film debut of Clint Walker in ...
'' (1954) - Dan Shanks
* '' East of Eden'' (1955) - Bouncer (uncredited) (final film role)