Known for Sound
Born
December 11, 1900
Died
May 1, 1980 (age 79)
Filmography
68 films


The Family Jewels
1965 · 1h 39m · US
A young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.


Tickle Me
1965 · 1h 30m · US
A singing rodeo rider takes a job at an all-female dude ranch, where he gets involved with a physical trainer and a treasure hunt for gold in a ghost town, leading to a showdown with kidnappers.


Black Spurs
1965 · 1h 21m · US
A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad franchise is headed.


The Disorderly Orderly
1964 · 1h 29m · US
Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches!


The Patsy
1964 · 1h 41m · US
Eccentric bellhop Stanley Belt is recruited unexpectedly by the comedy team of a recently deceased entertainer. Stanley struggles to become a song-and-dance man as the team grooms him to become a star. But as the date of a high-stakes appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show grows near, they begin to fear that the only astonishing thing about Stanley is his utter lack of talent.


Fun in Acapulco
1963 · 1h 37m · US
Mike Windgren works on a boat in Acapulco, but when the bratty daughter of its owner gets him fired, Mike finds new work as a lifeguard and singer at a local hotel. Tensions increase when Mike runs afoul of the rival lifeguard—also the champion diver of Mexico.


Donovan's Reef
1963 · 1h 49m · US
After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.


The Nutty Professor
1963 · 1h 47m · US
A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.


My Six Loves
1963 · 1h 41m · US
A celebrated actress discovers six runaway children living on her country property.


Who's Got the Action?
1962 · 1h 33m · US
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.


The Errand Boy
1961 · 1h 32m · US
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.


Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961 · 1h 55m · US
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.


One-Eyed Jacks
1961 · 2h 21m · US
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.


The Rat Race
1960 · 1h 45m · US
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.


The Black Orchid
1959 · 1h 34m · US
An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster's widow.


Houseboat
1958 · 1h 50m · US
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.


Maracaibo
1958 · 1h 28m · US
A firefighter is sent to Venezuela to battle a blazing oil well but still finds time for romance.


Teacher's Pet
1958 · 2h · US
The rugged editor of a city newspaper poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.


The Tin Star
1957 · 1h 33m · US
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.


Beau James
1957 · 1h 45m · US
The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.


Hollywood or Bust
1956 · 1h 35m · US
The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. Trying to steal the car, Steve tells Malcolm that he lives in Hollywood, next to Anita Ekberg's. When Malcom hears that, they both set out for Hollywood and the adventure begins...


Artists and Models
1955 · 1h 50m · US
A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings.


The Desperate Hours
1955 · 1h 52m · US
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.


We're No Angels
1955 · 1h 46m · US
Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store that gives supplies on credit. They initially intend to take advantage of them but have a change of heart after they find the family is in financial troubles.


White Christmas
1954 · 2h · US
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.


Here Come the Girls
1953 · 1h 18m · US
Bob Hope stars as an inept member of the chorus boy in a turn of the century stage show. After being fired, he finds himself starring acting as a decoy when a killer goes after the real star.


Scared Stiff
1953 · 1h 48m · US
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...


Botany Bay
1952 · 1h 33m · US
Based on the story of the start of Australia's colonisation. An American medical student is falsely convicted of robbery, with his sentence involving the torturous voyage with other prisoners to the new penal colony at Botany Bay. Because of his attempt to escape, evil Captain Gilbert decides to return him to England on charges of mutiny.


Thunder in the East
1952 · 1h 37m · US
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an agreement with guerilla leader Khan, the maharajah is a fool, and the British residents are living in the past. Steve's love interest is Joan Willoughby, the blind daughter of a parson.


Hurricane Smith
1952 · 1h 30m · US
South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana.


Somebody Loves Me
1952 · 1h 37m · US
Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields.


Detective Story
1951 · 1h 43m · US
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.


That's My Boy
1951 · 1h 44m · US
Jack Jackson, the greatest football player in Ridgefield College history, is disappointed that his only son Junior is an uncoordinated, allergy-ridden bookworm. He uses his athletic reputation and standing as #1 alumni contributor to pressure the coach to take Junior onto the team. In addition, he pays the tuition of Junior's financially needy classmate Bill Baker, a potential all-American, with the understanding that he will room with Junior and mentor him athletically and socially. Junior's initial efforts as quarterback prove disastrous and further complications arise when the room mates both fall in love with the same co-ed.


Union Station
1950 · 1h 21m · US
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.


The Heiress
1949 · 1h 55m · US
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.


Red, Hot and Blue
1949 · 1h 24m · US
In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob.


Night Has a Thousand Eyes
1948 · 1h 21m · US
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. Now years later, he desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family.


A Foreign Affair
1948 · 1h 56m · US
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.


The Big Clock
1948 · 1h 35m · US
George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.


Where There's Life
1947 · 1h 15m · US
In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.


Unconquered
1947 · 2h 27m · US
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.


Road to Utopia
1946 · 1h 30m · US
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.


Let's Face It
1943 · 1h 16m · US
A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the "fat farm" scheme to get back at their philandering husbands by hiring the soldier and two of his buddies as "escorts" for the weekend. Complications ensue when the husbands show up unexpectedly.


Happy Go Lucky
1943 · 1h 21m · US
A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.


Lucky Jordan
1942 · 1h 24m · US
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.


The Glass Key
1942 · 1h 25m · US
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.


The Light That Failed
1939 · 1h 37m · US
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.


Disputed Passage
1939 · 1h 31m · US
A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.


Beau Geste
1939 · 1h 52m · US
Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.
We're in the Movies, Now!
We're in the Movies, Now!
1939 · 9m · US
Promotion reel/souvenir of a 1939-40 meeting of the Paramount Studios sales people.


Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938 · 58m
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.


On Such a Night
1937 · 1h 11m · US
When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.


Outcast
1937 · 1h 13m · US
A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.