Known for Art
Born
September 16, 1892
Died
March 20, 1962 (age 69)
Birthplace
Saline, Kansas, USA
Filmography
80 films


Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles
1961 · 25m
country: United States
Madame Tirelou is a witch who will not allow her daughter Marie to marry her one true love Louis. The witch puts a curse on Louis should he ever set eyes on Marie again. Louis enlists the help of his old friend Fred to break the witch's spell so the young lovers may finally marry. However, Madame Tirelou proves more powerful than non-believer Fred bargained for. This is actually the Un-Aired Pilot of what was planned to be a weekly television show to run in a 30 minute spot.


War of the Colossal Beast
1958 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colossal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very angry.


I Married a Woman
1958 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.


Beginning of the End
1957 · 1h 13m
country: United States
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?


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.


Dakota Incident
1956 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate band of passengers must band together to fight them off.


When Gangland Strikes
1956 · 1h 10m
country: United States
In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison. The desperate mobsters try to stop him by using his innocent daughter in a blackmail scheme.


A Man Alone
1955 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the horses to ride to town to report the massacre, but finds himself accused of it. He also finds himself accused of the murder of the local banker, and winds up hiding in the basement of a house where the local sheriff, who is very sick, lives with his daughter.


The Road to Denver
1955 · 1h 30m
country: United States
The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his younger brother and heads for Colorado. He gets a job and all is well until his brother shows up and takes a job that puts them on opposite sides of the law.


Son of Sinbad
1955 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Legendary pirate and adventurer Sinbad is in single-minded pursuit of two things: beautiful women and a substance called Greek Fire--an early version of gunpowder.


I Cover the Underworld
1955 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Gunner O'Hara is about to be released from prison after serving a five-year sentence, and receives a visit from his twin brother John, a divinity student soon to be ordained as a priest. Aware that Gunner plans to resume his criminal career, John decides to stop him.


Rage at Dawn
1955 · 1h 27m
country: United States
In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura, who has inherited the family home, serves the outlaw brothers as a housekeeper and cook. One brother is killed when they go after a bank, the men of the town appear to have been waiting for them…


Private Hell 36
1954 · 1h 21m
country: United States
In New York City, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police detectives Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham investigate and are led from the drugstore to a nightclub, where singer Lilli is another recipient of a stolen bill. With Lilli's help, the partners track down the remaining money, but both Lilli and Jack are dismayed when Cal decides he wants to keep part of it.


The Hitch-Hiker
1953 · 1h 11m
country: United States
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.


Roadblock
1951 · 1h 13m
country: United States
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.


Saddle Legion
1951 · 1h
country: United States
A cattle inspector runs a rustling ring on the side.


Bunco Squad
1950 · 1h 7m
country: United States
Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest mark, sets up a false paranormal society with other charlatans to convince the credulous Jessica that her late son is speaking to her through their sham seances. When the plan leads to murder, Johnson and McManus must bring the group down before they kill again.


Never a Dull Moment
1950 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo and they get married, and leave for his ranch in the west. Her friends warn her of an early disillusionment with life on a ranch, far away from the glitter and bright lights of Broadway. Kay makes one difficulty adjustment after another, as the ranch is presided over by Chris's kids, and an incident occurs with a neighbor that prompts Kay to return to her glamorous life in New York. But she soon finds her heart is with Chris and his children.


Rider from Tucson
1950 · 1h
country: United States
In order to make Tug Cardwell (William Phipps) sign over his rich gold claim to them, John Avery (Robert Shayne), Gypsy Avery (Veda Ann Borg) and Jackson (Marshall Reed) hire Bob Rankin (Douglas Fowley') to kidnap Tug's sweetheart Jane Whipple (Elaine Riley). Rankin hides Jane and then demands half the mine from the other crooks. Dave Saunders (Tim Holt) and Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin), friends of Tug's, find Jane and taker her to safety. The conspirators then shoot Rankin, capture Tug and force him to take them to his claim. Dave and Chito are close behind.


Dynamite Pass
1950 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A cowhand becomes involved in a war between a road construction crew and the greedy toll-owner hoping to thwart the new project.


Follow Me Quietly
1949 · 1h
country: United States
When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as "The Judge" looks for his next strangling victim. For months, the madman has been stalking at night, leaving behind clues, but police efforts have been fruitless. Constructing a life-size dummy of the murderer, police Lt. Harry Grant is growing obsessed with capturing him, and always following Grant is the relentless reporter Ann Gorman looking to break the story, but the hunt continues.


The Window
1949 · 1h 13m
country: United States
An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.


The Clay Pigeon
1949 · 1h 3m
country: United States
Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. Escaping from the hospital he tries to clear himself by enlisting the aid of Martha Gregory, widow of a service buddy he was accused of informing on. Helped also by Ted Niles, a surviving fellow prisoner, he gets closer to finding the answers he needs, and becomes ensnared in a grandiose scheme involving his Japanese ex-prison guard, $10,000,000 of US currency forged by the Japanese and a burgeoning crime network poised to wreak havoc throughout southern California.


Blood on the Moon
1948 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.


Race Street
1948 · 1h 19m
country: United States
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.


Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
1947 · 1h 5m
country: United States
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.


Riff-Raff
1947 · 1h 20m
country: United States
A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while he searches for a valuable map hidden in plain sight.


Desperate
1947 · 1h 13m
country: United States
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.


The Woman on the Beach
1947 · 1h 11m
country: United States
A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.


Banjo
1947 · 1h 8m
country: United States
Family drama about a young farm girl, suddenly orphaned, who must give up her beloved dog when she's sent to live with her aunt in Boston.


The Falcon's Adventure
1946 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder.


Step by Step
1946 · 1h 2m
country: United States
Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day on the beach. Evelyn's new job as secretary to a U.S. senator in California soon brings unexpected intrigue and trouble for her and Johnny. The machinations of a sinister group of Nazi spies lead to mysteries and mistaken identities, and the two soon find themselves framed for murder!


Bedlam
1946 · 1h 16m
country: United States
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.


Badman's Territory
1946 · 1h 37m
country: United States
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.


The Truth About Murder
1946 · 1h 3m
country: United States
A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of his wife.


Isle of the Dead
1945 · 1h 12m
country: United States
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.


First Yank into Tokyo
1945 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.


Radio Stars on Parade
1945 · 1h 9m
country: United States
A Hollywood talent agency tries to avoid finacial ruin by getting its best clients on the air.


Those Endearing Young Charms
1945 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A soldier loses his girlfriend to his best buddy.


The Body Snatcher
1945 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.


Zombies on Broadway
1945 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences.


Girl Rush
1944 · 1h 5m
country: United States
During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western mining town.


Mademoiselle Fifi
1944 · 1h 9m
country: United States
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the coach over, social standings are leveled and integrity and spirit are put to the test.


Bride by Mistake
1944 · 1h 21m
country: United States
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.


The Curse of the Cat People
1944 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.


The Ghost Ship
1943 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Captain Stone's newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend. But when a couple of his crew members die mysteriously, Tom starts doubting Stone's authority.


Gildersleeve on Broadway
1943 · 1h 5m
country: United States
On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger.


The Seventh Victim
1943 · 1h 11m
country: United States
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.


The Adventures of a Rookie
1943 · 1h 6m
country: United States
Two bumbling GIs manage to get themselves invited to a dinner party at a boarding house "for women only". When the cook comes down with scarlet fever, the authorities quarantine the house and the pair find themselves locked up in a house full of attractive women.


Petticoat Larceny
1943 · 1h 1m
country: United States
An 11-year-old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soon follows in this comedy.


The Falcon in Danger
1943 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot against the government.


Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
1943 · 1h 3m
country: United States
Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens.


The Leopard Man
1943 · 1h 6m
country: United States
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.


This Land Is Mine
1943 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.


I Walked with a Zombie
1943 · 1h 9m
country: United States
A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.


Sagebrush Law
1943 · 56m
country: United States
Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the gun is in the wrong hand. When the Bank Examiner announces the bank has no money and Tom's identity becomes known, the townsmen attempt to hang him. Escaping he finds the phony examiner and gets a a confession. Then he plans a trap for the murderer.


The Falcon Strikes Back
1943 · 1h 6m
country: United States
The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation.


Cat People
1942 · 1h 13m
country: United States
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.


Red River Robin Hood
1942 · 57m
country: United States
An honest cowpoke (Tim Holt) comes to the rescue when the ranchers of Red River, AZ have their property seized by a greedy businessman (Eddie Dew). This 1942 B-western, directed by Lesley Selander, also stars Barbara Moffett, Cliff Edwards, Otto Hoffman and Russell Wade.


Here We Go Again
1942 · 1h 17m
country: United States
It's Fibber and Molly's 20th anniversary and they want to throw a big party. But when everyone declines their invitation, they decide to go on a second honeymoon instead. After one night at the broken down Ramble Inn, where they spent their first honeymoon, they decide to go across the lake to a swanky (and expensive) lodge, where they bump into their old friends Edgar Bergan, Charlie McCarthy, Gildersleeve, and Mrs. Uppington, so the party is on again.


The Falcon's Brother
1942 · 1h 3m
country: United States
A gentlemanly detective known as The Falcon calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.


Bandit Ranger
1942 · 56m
country: United States
Rancher Clay Travers finds and brings in the body of ranger Frank Mattison, murdered on the road to Trail City, where he had been sent to deal with an outbreak of cattle rustling. Businessman Art Kenyon, who has hired gunman Ed Martin to impersonate Mattison to further his rustling schemes, quickly changes Martin's story and has Travers framed for the ranger's murder. Managing to escape, Travers must come up with proof to clear his name and bring the true killers to justice.


Thundering Hoofs
1942 · 1h 1m
country: United States
Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father's stage line.


Powder Town
1942 · 1h 19m
country: United States
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.


Come on Danger
1942 · 59m
country: United States
When a woman turns outlaw, she is suspected of murder.


Land of the Open Range
1942 · 1h
country: United States
A land owner's will leaves his ranch to anyone who has served at least two years in prison.


Mexican Spitfire at Sea
1942 · 1h 12m
country: United States
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.


Valley of the Sun
1942 · 1h 18m
country: United States
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.


The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair
1939 · 55m
country: United States
"An average American family", the Middletons, visit the 1939 World's Fair and witnesses the advent of future technology, encountering robots and dishwashers for the first time.


One Third of a Nation
1939 · 1h 19m
country: United States
The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.


Soak the Rich
1936 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate.


The Scoundrel
1935 · 1h 16m
country: United States
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.


Moonlight and Pretzels
1933 · 1h 23m
country: Unknown
A song plugger is stranded in a small town. There he meets a girl who later helps him to put on a show on Broadway.


The New Klondike
1926 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team. He starts dabbling in real estate, in the midst of the Florida land boom (in which a lot of the land sold was under water), makes a fortune and buys into the team that cut him from its roster.


The Man Who Found Himself
1925 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Alfred E.Green silent family relationship romantic melodrama


Old Home Week
1925 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Tom Clark, the part owner of a luckless gas station in New York, returns to his place of birth for Old Home Week, posing as the millionaire president of the Amalgamated Oil Co. He is chosen as the orator for the homecoming banquet and given complete financial control over an oil well drilled in the town by Coleman and Barton, a pair of oily swindlers. Tom discovers that the well is a fake and has it connected secretly with the local reservoir. A wire from Tom's partner is intercepted, and Tom is exposed as a fraud. Coleman and Barton are about to leave town when Tom fakes a gusher and quickly sells the well back to the swindlers at a profit. The swindlers realize that they have been outsmarted, and their anger convinces the townspeople that Tom has acted in the best interests of the community. Tom is again the toast of the town, feted by its inhabitants and rewarded with the kisses of his sweetheart.