Known for Writing
Born
February 13, 1903
Died
August 23, 1971 (age 68)
Birthplace
Liverpool - Merseyside - England - UK
Filmography
46 films, 4 shows


The Jayhawkers!
1959 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Before the U.S. Civil War rebel leader Luke Darcy sees himself as leader of a new independent Republic of Kansas but the military governor sends an ex-raider to capture Darcy.


The Wings of Eagles
1957 · 1h 50m
country: United States
The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.


Garden of Evil
1954 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.


River of No Return
1954 · 1h 31m
country: United States
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.


Escape from Fort Bravo
1953 · 1h 39m
country: United States
A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.


Ride, Vaquero!
1953 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Two Mexican outlaws, Rio and Esqueda, raised as stepbrothers, have a showdown over the issue of whether to evict new settlers from their Texas border territory.


The Wild North
1952 · 1h 37m
country: United States
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.


Malaya
1949 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, cynical former newspaper correspondent John Royer devises a scheme with his old editor and government agents to return to the Far East and smuggle out a vast amount of rubber for the war effort. Demanding the freedom and company of his ex-friend, Carnahan, whom he betrayed in an exposé years earlier, Royer sails off into the hands of the Japanese with a motley crew, gold, and the promise of covert government aid.


Station West
1948 · 1h 27m
country: United States
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.


Night Song
1948 · 1h 42m
country: United States
A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist.


Lady Luck
1946 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.


The Sky's the Limit
1943 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter.


A Date with the Falcon
1942 · 1h 3m
country: United States
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.


The Gay Falcon
1941 · 1h 7m
country: United States
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.


Millionaires in Prison
1940 · 1h 4m
country: United States
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.


The Saint Takes Over
1940 · 1h 9m
country: United States
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris. This film focuses on the character of Inspector Henry Farnack. When Farnack is framed by a gang he is investigating, it is up to The Saint to clear his name.


The Saint in London
1939 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland Yard inspector Teal, who's convinced that Templar himself pulled off the heist, and less reluctantly by light-fingered Dugan and dizzy socialite Penny Parker.


Checkers
1937 · 1h 19m
country: United States
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.


Wild and Woolly
1937 · 1h 5m
country: United States
Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!


Step Lively, Jeeves!
1937 · 1h 9m
country: United States
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.


Top Sergeant Mulligan
1928 · 1h
country: United States
During World War I a vaudeville entertainer, Mickey, is helping to recruit officers for the army and finds himself in the service along with his female partner, who is also his girlfriend. At training camp he comes up against Top Sergeant Mulligan, who proceeds to make life miserable for him. If that wasn't enough, it turns out that Mulligan, the captain and a YMCA worker are all making a play for his girlfriend.