Known for Acting
Olan Evart Soule (February 28, 1909 – February 1, 1994) was an American actor, who had professional credits in nearly 7,000 radio shows and commercials, appearances in 200 television series and television films, and in over 60 films. Soule's voice work on television included his 15-year role (1968–1983) as Batman on several animated series that were either devoted to or involved the fictional "Dark Knight" superhero. Soule married Norma Elizabeth Miller on September 29, 1929. They had two children and were married for 63 years, until Norma's death on July 1, 1992. His daughter Joann, was also an actress, under the name of Sydney Soule. Soule was a 32-degree Mason as well as a member of the Los Angeles Show Business Shrine Club (Al Malikah). On February 1, 1994, Soule died at age 84 of lung cancer in Corona, California, at the home of his daughter, Joann, and son-in-law, Dr. David Henriksen. His burial took place at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles. CLR From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born
February 28, 1909
Died
February 1, 1994 (age 84)
Birthplace
La Harpe, Illinois, USA
Filmography
62 films, 83 shows


Scooby-Doo Meets Batman
2002 · 1h 18m · US
Scooby-Doo Meets Batman is a video compilation from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. It consists of two episodes from Hanna-Barbera's The New Scooby-Doo Movies, "The Dynamic Scooby Doo Affair" and "The Caped Crusader Caper", where Scooby-Doo and the gang team up with Batman and Robin to capture Joker and the Penguin.


The Jerk, Too
1984 · 1h 32m · US
Navin Johnson heads to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of his pen pal, Marie. On the way, he runs across a gang of hobos whose leader, Diesel, takes him to Las Vegas after learning of his skills at poker.


The Small One
1978 · 26m · US
Ordered by his father to sell an old mule called Small One, a Hebrew boy in the ancient Holy Land takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph, who buys Small One and uses the steed to take his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem.


St. Ives
1976 · 1h 34m · US
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.


The Apple Dumpling Gang
1975 · 1h 40m · US
A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon find themselves facing a surly gang of sharpshooters.


The Legend of Lizzie Borden
1975 · 1h 36m · US
A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.


The Towering Inferno
1974 · 2h 45m · US
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.


Willie Dynamite
1974 · 1h 42m · US
Willie Dynamite is a pimp who operates in New York City. Willie was a big success as a pimp, but now, just as fast as he rose to the top, he has hit bottom. A former prostitute who has become a social worker tries to get Willie to clean up his life while it is still possible.


The Six Million Dollar Man
1973 · 1h 14m · US
Colonel Steve Austin, astronaut and test pilot, is badly injured when he crashes while testing an experimental aircraft. A covert government agency (OSI) is willing to pay for special prosthetics to replace the eye, arm and both legs he lost in the crash. Highly advanced technology (bionics) built into them will make him faster, stronger and more resilient than normal. In return they want him to become a covert agent for the OSI. It will cost $6,000,000 to rebuild Steve Austin.


Scooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters
1972 · 1h 27m · US
The Mystery Inc. gang investigate more supernatural sightings with the help of the Harlem Globetrotters


Salty, the Hijacked Harbor Seal
1972 · 49m · US
A biologist helps save a young seal who was caught in a fishing net, but the seal hides in a small boat, not knowing that it is about to be towed far from the bay. The seal causes all sorts of trouble, until the biologist takes him back to the bay.


Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
1972 · 41m · US
With the Mystery Machine stuck in mud, Mystery Inc. ends up becoming housekeepers for the Addams Family while Gomez and Morticia go on vacation to the Okefenokee Swamp. A giant vulture like super villain known as the Vulture threatens the Addams house and Wednesday goes missing, so Scooby and the gang go to find her and stop the Vulture.


The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
1971 · 1h 40m · US
D.A. Paul Ryan doesn't buy self-defense when a pharmacist fatally shoots an armed robber and brings the man up on manslaughter charges, for which he's convicted. However, when Ryan discovers the pharmacist's double life--he's been running a burglary ring out of the pharmacy, and the dead man may have been a member of said ring, he vacates the manslaughter conviction and sets out to nail him for murder instead.


The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970 · 1h 39m · US
A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride.


House on Greenapple Road
1970 · 1h 53m · US
A promiscuous housewife has been murdered and hardboiled detective Dan August has to find the motive...and the body.


The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
1969 · 1h 31m · US
Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a computer; now he remembers everything he reads. Unfortunately, he also remembers information which was in the computer's memory, like Arno's illegal businesses..


Inky, the Crow
1969 · 49m · US
A girl, Carol Lee, adopts a mischievous crow, but has to work hard to keep it from being shot by a farmer who hates crows.
Dragnet
Dragnet
1969 · 1h 40m · US
Also known as "Dragnet 1966," this TV movie was originally the pilot for the 1967 relaunch of the original 1950s "Dragnet" radio show and TV show (which also had its own movie in 1954, from the same creative team). However, the pilot wasn't actually aired until 1969. In this feature-length entry, Sgt. Joe Friday is called back from vacation to work with his partner, Officer Bill Gannon, on a missing persons case. Two amateur female models and a young war widow have vanished, having been last seen with one J. Johnson. In the course of tracking down Johnson and the young ladies, the detectives wind up with two different descriptions of the suspect, one of which closely resembles a dead body found in a vacant lot. But the dead man, later identified as Charles LeBorg of France, proves not to be J. Johnson, when a third young model disappears.


The Night Before Christmas
1968 · 26m · US
Fictionalized account of how Clement C. Moore came to write "A Visit from St. Nicholas." His young daughter, stricken with pneumonia, asks for a Santa Claus story for Christmas. No such story had been written, so Moore writes his famous poem, set to Ken Darby's music and sung by The Norman Luboff Choir.


The Destructors
1968 · 1h 37m · US
Foreign agents are after a substance called "laser rubies" that can power a killer laser beam. Government agents are dispatched to protect the rubies and eliminate the foreign agents.


And Of Course You
1968 · 13m
"This film depicts how people around the world benefit from innovations developed by the U.S. space program. Without narration, the film uses motion pictures, still photography, and animation to show advances in food production, education, communications, navigation, meteorology, resource exploration, mapping, and other activities. The film was produced by Murakami Wolf Films, Inc. (Hollywood, CA), directed by Jimmy Murakami, executive produced by Fred Wolf, and features the voices of Olan Soule and Lennie Weinrib, with music composed by Chico Hamilton" (US National Archives).


The Bubble
1966 · 1h 52m · US
A couple encounter mysterious atmospheric effects in an airplane and find themselves in a town where people behave oddly.


The Cincinnati Kid
1965 · 1h 42m · US
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.


John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965 · 1h 36m · US
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson, and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.


Looking for Love
1964 · 1h 25m · US
An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.


Sunday in New York
1963 · 1h 45m · US
An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce.


It Happened at the World's Fair
1963 · 1h 45m · US
Mike Edwards and Danny Burke fly a cropduster, but due to Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitchhike to the World's Fair in Seattle and, while Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike cares for a small girl whose father has disappeared.


Days of Wine and Roses
1963 · 1h 57m · US
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.


13 West Street
1962 · 1h 20m · US
Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previously known by the police and are therefore hard to track down. As Sherill starts getting impatient he begins his own investigation. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Koleski does his best to track down the culprits.
The Hurrying Kind
The Hurrying Kind
1962 · 24m · US
A high school student wants to drop out and work at a garage, until he learns of the myriad opportunities available in the military.


Bachelor in Paradise
1961 · 1h 49m · US
A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unofficial relationship advisor to unhappy local housewives, to the dismay of their respective husbands who suspect him of sexual misconduct.


Bells Are Ringing
1960 · 2h 6m · US
Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities for her clients. They include an out-of-work Method actor, a dentist with musical yearnings, and in particular playwright Jeffrey Moss, who is suffering from writer's block and desperately needs a muse.


Hell Bent for Leather
1960 · 1h 22m · US
When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.


Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
1960 · 1h 35m · US
Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky chimpanzee. However, the circus isn't all fun and games when the evil candy vendor, Harry Tupper, convinces Toby that his Aunt Olive and Uncle Daniel don't love him or want him back. Toby resigns himself to circus life, but when he finally realizes that Tupper lied to him, and that his aunt and uncle truly love him, Toby happily returns home once again.


North by Northwest
1959 · 2h 17m · US
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.


The Notorious Mr. Monks
1958 · 1h 10m · US
A drunken driver, his wife and a hitchhiker equals murder.


Francis in the Haunted House
1956 · 1h 20m · US
Reporter David Prescott becomes unlikely friends with Francis, who is the only witness to a murder. As Prescott finds himself in and out of the police station as a supposedly delirious suspect, he must clear his name with Francis in tow, and set off to the spooky old castle where the real killer waits!


Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers
1956 · 1h 31m · US
Interviews and documentary footage combine with the fictional story of an air-force pilot who encounters aliens.


While the City Sleeps
1956 · 1h 40m · US
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".


Ransom!
1956 · 1h 49m · US
A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers.


Queen Bee
1955 · 1h 35m · US
A wicked Southern woman ruthlessly manipulates her family.


Cult of the Cobra
1955 · 1h 22m · US
While stationed in Asia, six American G.I.'s witness the secret ritual of Lamians (worshipers of women who can change into serpents). When discovered by the cult, the High Lamian Priest vows that "the Cobra Goddess will avenge herself". Once back in the United States, a mysterious woman enters into their lives and accidents begin to happen. The shadow of a cobra is seen just before each death.


Phffft
1954 · 1h 28m · US
Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.


Dragnet
1954 · 1h 29m · US
Two homicide detectives try to find just the facts behind a mobster's brutal murder.


Human Desire
1954 · 1h 31m · US
A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train.


Francis Joins the WACS
1954 · 1h 35m · US
Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!


The Great Diamond Robbery
1954 · 1h 10m · US
Ambrose C. Park, left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an assistant to a diamond cutter. Shyster lawyer Remlick, in a strategy to get a fabulous uncut diamond through Ambrose, arranges for Emily Drummon, Duke Fargoh and Maggie Drummon to pose as Ambrose's long-lost parents and sister. The diamond, through many comic situations, is acquired and the gang is going to have Ambrose cut the diamond, and relieve him of the two stones and his parental illusions at the same time. But Maggie, who has no taste for the deception, tips Ambrose off and a wild chase ensues. At the end, Ambrose is very happy as he can now marry his "sister."


Trouble Along the Way
1953 · 1h 50m · US
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.


Never Wave at a WAC
1953 · 1h 27m · US
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army in an effort to see more of her colonel boyfriend. She soon encounters many difficulties with the lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs testing new equipment.


Monkey Business
1952 · 1h 37m · US
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.


Don't Bother to Knock
1952 · 1h 16m · US
An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.


Clash by Night
1952 · 1h 45m · US
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.


The Atomic City
1952 · 1h 25m · US
Spies hold the son of a nuclear physicist (Gene Barry) hostage in exchange for the Los Alamos bomb formula.


You Never Can Tell
1951 · 1h 18m · US
Retired army dog King inherits a fortune from his eccentric millionaire owner. But someone poisons him for his fortune. He gets to go back to earth as a human detective to bring his killer to justice and protect the kind woman who used to look after him.


The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951 · 1h 32m · US
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.


Hollywood Story
1951 · 1h 16m · US
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director.


Branded
1950 · 1h 44m · US
A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.


Peggy
1950 · 1h 16m · US
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.


Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950 · 1h 19m · US
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.


The Lady Takes a Sailor
1949 · 1h 39m · US
Jennifer Smith heads a "Consumer Reports"-type company and her reputation for honesty is her greatest asset. While out boating one day she encounters a secret prototype submarine piloted by Bill Craig. Trying to explain her absence after her boat sinks becomes very difficult as Bill and his cohorts attempt to discredit her story.


Beyond the Forest
1949 · 1h 37m · US
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.


It's a Great Feeling
1949 · 1h 25m · US
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.