Known for Camera
Born
January 31, 1903
Died
July 15, 1990 (age 87)
Birthplace
Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA
Filmography
78 films, 4 shows


Bridger
1976 · 1h 40m
country: United States
The story of famous frontiersman Jim Bridger, who is given 40 days to cut a trail through the Rocky Mountains to the California coast and told that if he can't do it, the territory will be lost to England.


Runaway!
1973 · 1h 13m
country: United States
A group of skiers are trapped inside a runaway train hurtling down a mountainside.


Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
1972 · 1h 13m
country: United States
After a policeman is murdered in an ambush, rumors surface that he was on the take. His widow sets out to catch the killers and clear her husband's name.


Coogan's Bluff
1968 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads into the city to recapture him.


Split Second to an Epitaph
1968 · 2h
country: United States
In the second "Ironside" movie, the Chief has his spine jolted during a hospital encounter with a narcotics pusher, not only raising the possibility for an operation that might cure his paralysis but also putting him in jeopardy because he can identify the man who had just shot a guard.


The Hell with Heroes
1968 · 1h 42m
country: United States
In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life after fighting in World War II.


Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady?
1968 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Agatha Knabenshu arrives in a small town in Missouri to sell player pianos to the locals. She's fired after her disastrous sales attempts nearly destroy the town. The stranded saleslady becomes friendly with an equally bumbling inventor and moves in with his family. The two then try to sell his automatic milking machine, but things turn sour when their demonstration causes a stampede.


The Outsider
1967 · 2h
country: United States
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary suspect in an attractive woman's death. This NBC TV movie served as a pilot for the later series.


Tammy and the Millionaire
1967 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A bayou girl (Debbie Watson) and her kin (Frank McGrath, Denver Pyle) have run-ins with some rich folks.


Winchester '73
1967 · 1h 37m
country: United States
TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession of the famed repeating rifle.


Wings of Fire
1967 · 1h 39m
country: United States
A headstrong aviatrix enters an international air race to save her father's foundering business and to soothe the heart of an old flame who returned home with a new wife in tow.


How I Spent My Summer Vacation
1967 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that he is becoming the victim of a conspiracy.


Code Name: Heraclitus
1967 · 1h
country: United States
A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has total amnesia. A government agent decides that he would make a perfect undercover operative.


Beau Geste
1966 · 1h 43m
country: United States
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.


The Plainsman
1966 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.


The Claw Monsters
1966 · 1h 40m
country: Unknown
An evil scientist in a remote jungle location cultivates giant crawfish (!) as a means of scaring trespassers away from his diamond mine. Condensed from one of the last Republic serials, "Panther Girl of the Congo". (1955).


D-Day on Mars
1966 · 1h 40m
country: United States
This is a shortened version of the 1945 Republic serial "The Purple Monster Strikes," which was released to television in 1966.


The Hanged Man
1964 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union leader responsible but finds he isn't the only one after his money.


Nightmare in Chicago
1964 · 1h 21m
country: United States
The story of a serial killer known as "Georgie Porgie." The Chicago turnpike is threatened over a three-day period as the police try to catch him by blocking the whole area.


The Slowest Gun in the West
1960 · 53m
country: United States
The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. Fletcher is so cowardly the townsfolk are sure that the local outlaws will be too proud to gun him down. This proves to be the case, and the outlaws hire their own cowardly gunfighter, Chicken Finsterwald, to go up against The Silver Dollar Kid.


Accused of Murder
1956 · 1h 14m
country: United States
A police detective finds himself entangled in the web of the underworld when he falls in love with a nightclub singer accused of murdering a crooked lawyer.


The Man Is Armed
1956 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a result, things don't go as smoothly as planned.


A Strange Adventure
1956 · 1h 10m
country: United States
A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.


Thunder Over Arizona
1956 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Ervin Plummer-played by the estimable George Macready, who like his good friend Vincent Price was a man of culture and erudition who specialised in bad guy roles-is a grasping avaricious businessman with a hunger for gold.


Terror at Midnight
1956 · 1h 10m
country: United States
A newly promoted police sergeant discovers his girlfriend my be involved with a gang of car thieves.


Stranger at My Door
1956 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Notorious outlaw Clay Anderson and gang rob the town bank and flee in separate directions. Riding hard, Clay's horse goes lame and he is forced to pull-up at a nearby farm. He soon discovers that the place belongs to local preacher Hollis Jarret, his new wife, and a son from a previous marriage. Clay, posing as a weary traveler, tries to insinuate himself into a secure hideout, but the reverend isn't fooled. He agrees to allow Clay to remain at the farm for a few days, but his motive isn't the preservation of his family's safety. Hollis reasons that, with time, patience and a lot of faith, he can convince the outlaw to turn over a new leaf. But Clay's criminal tendencies may run deeper than the preacher had imagined


Flame of the Islands
1955 · 1h 30m
country: United States
An administrative assistant who may or may not have been the mistress of her firm’s deceased client receives a payout from the dead man’s widow and uses it to buy a stake in a Caribbean casino. In addition to being a neophyte empresario she’s a nightclub singer and several men lust after her.


No Man's Woman
1955 · 1h 10m
country: United States
A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no shortage of suspects who wanted to see her dead--among them a rich husband she wouldn't divorce unless he paid her a huge settlement, a lover she caused to be fired from his job and an assistant whose fiancé she tried to seduce.


Santa Fe Passage
1955 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A disgraced Indian scout and his partner are hired to escort a wagonload of guns through Indian territory.


Panther Girl of the Kongo
1955 · 2h 47m
country: United States
Jean Evans of an international wildlife foundation, who is known to Africa as 'the Panther Girl' because of her bravery in jungle living, stumbles on a plot by a mad scientist to frighten the natives out of a diamond-laden district by chemically growing crayfish to giant size, and enlists the aid of a game hunter friend to prevent a monster rampage and bring the culprits to justice.


Phantom Stallion
1954 · 54m
country: United States
Ex-cavalry buddies, Rex and Slim, band together to capture a wild stallion, solve a murder and thwart the killers from cheating a boy out of his inheritance.


Trader Tom of the China Seas
1954 · 2h 47m
country: United States
In this 12 Chapter serial the UN enlists trader Tom Rogers and Vivian Wells, to lead the effort to prevent the natives from starting a revolution in Burmatra and its neighbors.


Red River Shore
1953 · 54m
country: United States
When an oil discovery is reported at Paxton, Oklahoma, Marshal Rex Allen immediately suspects that where there is oil, there is trouble. Rex arrives just as a band of desperadoes stage a bank hold-up and escape with $25,000 which ranchers have invested in prospective oil drillings.


Shadows of Tombstone
1953 · 54m
country: United States
Rancher Rex Allen captures a bandit, Delgado, a henchman for crooked Sheriff Webb and saloon owner Mike, who run the town to suit themselves, but Rex forces the sheriff to jail Delgado. When Marge, who runs the town newspaper tells Rex she is afraid to attack the sheriff in print, Rex decides to run for sheriff. Webb and Mike frame Rex and his partner Slim on a murder charge and they are jailed.


Bandits of the West
1953 · 54m
country: United States
Marshal Rocky Lane learns of a plan to obstruct the promotion of natural gas in his town.


Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe
1953 · 5h
country: United States
Dangerous climate changes are ravaging Earth and the U.S. government requests an investigation by masked super-scientist Commando Cody. He discovers that the disasters are being caused by space-alien forces from unknown planetary origins.


San Antone
1953 · 1h 30m
country: United States
After the Civil War, a cowboy who's a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico now occupied by the French...


Black Hills Ambush
1952 · 53m
country: United States
U.S. Marshal Rocky Lane arrives to help his friend Nugget whose shipments are being robbed. Learning the gang only goes for incoming shipments, he figures they are repacking the loot and having Nugget ship it out. So he hijacks the next outgoing shipment finding a box labeled tools contains gold bars. Then posing as an outlaw he makes a deal with the gang hoping to round them up. But the boss learns he is a Marshal and he is made a prisoner.


Outcasts of the Trail
1949 · 59m
country: United States
Legendary lawman Pat Garrett wins the Fourth of July buckboard race in a small Nevada town against the unscrupulous Fred Smith and pretty Lavinia White. Lavinia blames Garrett for sending her father Ivory White to jail for robbing 100,000 dollars. White, who has stashed the loot away someplace, is about to be released and plans to return the money to the express office for the sake of his children, Lavinia and Chad. Nasty Jim Judd forces Lavinia to help him rob the coach carrying Ivory and the money, counting on the fact that White will keep quiet for his daughter's sake.


Prince of the Plains
1949 · 59m
country: United States
Banker Ned Owens refuses to call in the many unpaid loans made to the local ranchers as he knows they are being terrorized by a gang of crooks and unable to pay. But the secret leader of the gang is James Taylor large stockholder of the bank.....


Saddle Pals
1947 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Autry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement involving his old pal and a gang of land swindlers. The pal then goes on an extended vacation, leaving Autry to sort things out.


Son of Zorro
1947 · 3h
country: United States
A man returning home after having fought in the Civil War discovers that corrupt politicians have taken over the county and are terrorizing and shaking down the citizens. He dons the costume of his ancestor, the famous Zorro, and sets out to bring them to justice.


The Crimson Ghost
1946 · 2h 47m
country: United States
A criminal mastermind known as The Crimson Ghost is out to steal a device called the Cyclotrode, which can short-circuit all electrical current on the planet.


Daughter of Don Q
1946 · 2h 47m
country: United States
When the unscrupulous Carlos Manning discovers that an old Spanish land grant recently unearthed will leave a huge section of California real estate to the heirs of Don Quantero, he employs Mel Donovan and his killer henchmen to murder them all. That will leave Manning as the sole heir to millions. However, Delores Quantero tumbles to this plot and enlists the aide of two-fisted reporter, Cliff Roberts to save all her relatives


Man from Rainbow Valley
1946 · 56m
country: United States
When unscrupulous rodeo promoter Colonel Winthrop gets the idea of capturing "Outlaw" and making him a show horse, his niece Kay North tricks Monte into believing she is a writer assigned to do an article on the real horse.


Sun Valley Cyclone
1946 · 56m
country: United States
In this western, Red Ryder rounds up a gang of horse thieves who have been stealing cavalry horses.


King of the Forest Rangers
1946 · 2h 47m
country: United States
An Indian rug is the key to the location of a lost treasure. When the rug's owner is murdered, it becomes a case for Forest Ranger Steve King


Alias Billy the Kid
1946 · 56m
country: United States
Texas Ranger Sunset Carson is given the mission of tracking down the notorious Marshall gang. Uncovering their hideout, he discovers the gang is led by Ann Marshall and is comprised of three of her ranch-hands, Dakota, PeeWee and Buckskin. He soon learns that they are the innocent victims of a ring of swindlers and cattle rustlers led by the ruthless Matt Conroy.


The Phantom Rider
1946 · 2h 47m
country: United States
A new town doctor arrives at the same time as local Indians needprotection from troublemaking looters.


The Purple Monster Strikes
1945 · 3h 21m
country: United States
A Martian invader crashes his spaceship conveniently close to the workshop of a scientist who is developing an interplanetary craft. If the extraterrestrial Purple Monster can complete the rocket ship and return to Mars, he will be able to start a full-scale invasion of Earth. Good thing Craig Foster sets out to thwart the Monster's mission!


Oregon Trail
1945 · 55m
country: United States
Escaping the law, Jim Parker arrives in a town that is controlled by Dalt Higgins and his crony judge. When he stands up to Higgins, he's made sheriff only to be shot in the back. After recovering he returns to get the man that shot him. When the gang attacks, he fights back from the newspaper office. When a stray bullet nicks the printing press plate, Jim sees that it's solid gold and it's not long before the masquerades on both sides of the law are revealed.


Trail of Kit Carson
1945 · 57m
country: United States
Bill Harmon receives a letter from his partner, Dave MacRoy informing him of a rich gold strike in their California mine. Arriving there, Bill learns from elderly miner John Benton that Dave is dead and that he sold the mine at a strangely low price the night before his supposed accidental death. Harmon suspects murder.


Federal Operator 99
1945 · 2h 49m
country: Unknown
Jerry Blake (aka Federal Operator 99) teams-up with Joyce Kingston to thwart the plans of escaped crime boss Jim Belmont.


The Vampire's Ghost
1945 · 59m
country: United States
In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a old man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life" of the past few hundred years.


Manhunt of Mystery Island
1945 · 3h 39m
country: United States
Claire Forrest seeks her kidnapped scientist father, hidden somewhere on Mystery Island. He is held and forced to work on diabolical inventions by Captain Mephisto, a costumed villain.


Sheriff of Cimarron
1945 · 56m
country: United States
Sunset Carson rides into the town of Cimarron looking for his brother and the crooks who framed him for cattle rustling. When he's made sheriff, he struggles to keep order in a place overrun by thieves and liars. Cimarron is a wild town overrun by outlaws. Sunset, who was framed as a cattle rustler, has just been released from prison after 3 years when he winds up in Cimarron.


Firebrands of Arizona
1944 · 55m
country: United States
The sheriff camps outside of town and tries to arrest Froggy and Sunset, but a gang of outlaws helps them get away.


Sheriff of Sundown
1944 · 55m
country: United States
Bringing his large cattle herd to Sundown, rancher Tex Jordan must sell his cattle to corrupt baron Jack Hatfield. He does OK but learns Hatfield is cheating the small outfits. When one refuses to sell he is murdered and Tex then decides to stay and take up the fight. He is appointed a special Agent by the Governor but unknonw to him the Governor's Secretary is a spy for Hatfield and reveals his plans.


Code of the Prairie
1944 · 56m
country: United States
Just after the Oklahoma Panhandle was annexed into the united states an ex-lawman turned newspaper man arrives to town to civilize it. He brings along Frog, a photographer and Sunset Carson as muscle. The seedy element in the territory doesn't want law and order and they plot against them and try to stop Sunset Carson being sheriff.


The Girl Who Dared
1944 · 56m
country: United States
A group of people are invited to a party at a creepy mansion where legend has it a ghost appears once a year.


Goodnight, Sweetheart
1944 · 1h 7m
country: United States
A journalist attacks the campaign of a mayoral candidate who has gained the endorsement of a rival newspaper.


O, My Darling Clementine
1943 · 1h 8m
country: United States
"Dapper Dan" Franklin and his small troupe of actors become stranded in the small town of Harmony, Tennessee. The town is shackled by Blue Laws imposed upon it by a City Council under the influence of their domineering wives. Harry Cheshire is under the thumb of his sister Abigail Uppington. One look at "Pappy's" daughter Clementine, and Dan decides to stay in Harmony...Blue Laws or no.


Here Comes Elmer
1943 · 1h 14m
country: United States
This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town band that struggles toward stardom in the big city. Their journey begins when Elmer decides to eject their female singer because she isn't really right. Unfortunately, her angry father is their sponsor and when he finds out, he withdraws all support.


Sleepy Lagoon
1943 · 1h 5m
country: United States
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.


The Blocked Trail
1943 · 55m
country: United States
A horse called Brilliant is the only one who knows the location of a gold mine. When Brilliant's owner is killed, the trio known as the Three Mesquiteers (Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Jimmie Dodd) are mistakenly arrested for the murder.


G-men vs. the Black Dragon
1943 · 4h 3m
country: United States
Japanese spies attempt to subvert America's war effort; G-Men attempt to thwart their plot.


Valley of Hunted Men
1942 · 1h
country: United States
Fugitive Nazis threaten to take over the Wyoming range in this Three Mesqueteers outing, which also warns about the danger of blithely assuming that every German-American is a fifth columnist. Which is exactly what rancher Clem Parker (Hal Price) does when learning that a couple of escaped Axis war criminals may be heading towards the local valley.


Stardust on the Sage
1942 · 1h 4m
country: United States
A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine.


The Girl from Alaska
1942 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A would-be prospector becomes involved in a plot to deceive an old prospector of his cache, but falls in love with his daughter instead.


Gangs of Sonora
1941 · 56m
country: United States
Commissioner Tredwell is the law of the land and he gets whatever he wants with the help of hired guns and lackey lawyer Conners. The only one who publicly stands up to Tredwell is Beecham of the Clarion. Beecham has his paper burned to the ground and when he starts a petition to make Wyoming a state, taking the power away from Tredwell, he is killed. But when Kansas Kate comes in to visit her son Conners, she sees what is going on and she takes over the paper and keeps the pressure on Tredwill. With this Conners has mixed emotions, but the boys do everything they can to protect Kate and the paper. Written by Tony Fontana


The Gay Vagabond
1941 · 1h 6m
country: United States
Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.


Modern Times
1936 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...