Known for Acting
Born
May 24, 1916
Died
March 30, 1972 (age 55)
Birthplace
Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
Filmography
48 films, 59 shows


The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970 · 2h 1m
country: United States
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and makes money off the stagecoach passengers. Hildy, a prostitute from the nearest town, moves in with him. Hogue has everything going his way until the advent of the automobile ends the era of the stagecoach.


The Great Bank Robbery
1969 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.


Chubasco
1968 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A wild beach boy takes a job on a tuna fishing boat.


In the Heat of the Night
1967 · 1h 49m
country: United States
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.


The Sword of Ali Baba
1965 · 1h 21m
country: Unknown
Supposedly up to 70 percent of this feature was taken from the 1944 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Frank Puglia as Prince Cassim remains from the 21-year-old footage.


The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.


The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962 · 2h 20m
country: Germany
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."


Buchanan Rides Alone
1958 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Passing through a border town, a man is caught up in a Mexican's murder of a member of the town's most powerful family.


Domino Kid
1957 · 1h 14m
country: United States
A rancher vows revenge on the five men responsible for his father's death.


Man from Del Rio
1956 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town's outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man's shoes. But a tin star doesn't bring automatic respectability and Robles is shunned by the town's leading citizens. His popularity with its less-savory element, particularly saloonkeeper Bannister, wanes dramatically, too, as he starts to take his job seriously. It is his love for a decent, caring woman that keeps Dave in town, but can she convince him to lay down his gun and start a new life?


The Cruel Tower
1956 · 1h 19m
country: United States
The story of a bunch of hard-drinking steeplejacks.


Great Day in the Morning
1956 · 1h 32m
country: United States
After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.


Fremont: The Trailblazer
1956 · 26m
country: United States
Fremont: The Trailblazer was a television pilot episode that never aired.


The Last Frontier
1955 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.


The Sea Chase
1955 · 1h 57m
country: United States
As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly.


Day of Triumph
1954 · 1h 50m
country: Unknown
A film about the last days of Jesus Christ.


Superman's Peril
1954 · 1h 17m
country: United States
Compilation of 3 episodes of "The Adventures of Superman" tv series: episode #47 ("The Golden Vulture"), #44 ("The Semi-Private Eye"), and #32 ("The Defeat of Superman").


The Black Dakotas
1954 · 1h 5m
country: United States
During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln sends an emissary with a peace treaty to the Sioux Indians. He also sends a gift of $130,000 in gold. This attracts the attention of Brock Marsh, the secret leader of a Confederate spy ring, who wants to keep the treaty from being signed and to also get his hands on the gold. Ruth Lawrence and Mike Daugherty work together against the machinations of Marsh


Gorilla at Large
1954 · 1h 23m
country: United States
At a carnival called the Garden of Evil, a man is murdered, apparently by a gorilla...or someone in a gorilla suit.


The Big Heat
1953 · 1h 29m
country: United States
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.


The Great Sioux Uprising
1953 · 1h 20m
country: United States
During the Civil War, in Wyoming, horse dealers Joan Britton and Stephen Cook are competing to supply the Union Army with horses. A Cherokee is in the area to stir up the Sioux against the Union just as Cook decides to steal a herd of Sioux horses. Ex-army doctor Jonathan Westgate opposes Cook’s unscrupulous methods as well as being Cook’s rival for the affections of Joan. It seems Westgate is the only one able to prevent a new Indian war.


The Iron Curtain
1948 · 1h 27m
country: United States
The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.


The Gangster
1947 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is his singer girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.


Northwest Outpost
1947 · 1h 31m
country: United States
US cavalry officer James Laurence arrives at one of the Russian colonies to pave the way for the eventual American takeover of the territory. He faces resistance in the form of Prince Nikolai Balinin, who has no intention of weakening his despotic hold over the local peasants. The plot thickens when Laurence falls in love with Natalie Alanova, the wife of disgraced nobleman Count Igor Savin.


Violence
1947 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is actually a front for racketeers. But a case of amnesia threatens to blow her cover.


The Brute Man
1946 · 58m
country: United States
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.


Canyon Passage
1946 · 1h 32m
country: United States
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.


Blonde Alibi
1946 · 1h 2m
country: United States
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.


The Notorious Lone Wolf
1946 · 1h 4m
country: United States
Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.


Three Strangers
1946 · 1h 32m
country: United States
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.


Murder, He Says
1945 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete also believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.


Bring on the Girls
1945 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.


Hotel Berlin
1945 · 1h 38m
country: United States
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.


Mr. Skeffington
1944 · 2h 25m
country: United States
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.


Destination Tokyo
1943 · 2h 15m
country: United States
During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned bombing of Tokyo. Along the way, the crew learn about each other as they face the enemy and some of them lose their lives.


Baptism of Fire
1943 · 36m
country: United States
Baptism of Fire is a 1943 American documentary, meant to be an Army training film. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Proceed and Report
Proceed and Report
1943 · 18m
country: United States
Ensign Murphy is ordered to his first duty in the U.S. Navy. He learns (often the hard way) the means of transporting himself properly from one assignment to another, the proper etiquette for boarding a vessel, interacting with his superior officers, maintaining his belongings, and conducting himself aboard ship. Other more experienced naval officers help him and correct the many errors he makes.
Mountain Fighters
Mountain Fighters
1943 · 21m
country: United States
A color visit to Camp Hale, Colorado's US Army training center.


Action in the North Atlantic
1943 · 2h 6m
country: United States
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.


Whistling in Dixie
1942 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to help Carol's college chum, Ellamae Downs, solve a mystery involving a murdered man, old Fort Dixon, and buried treasure.


Reunion in France
1942 · 1h 44m
country: United States
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.


Busses Roar
1942 · 58m
country: United States
A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.


Spy Ship
1942 · 1h 2m
country: United States
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.


Rio Rita
1942 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.


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


Blues in the Night
1941 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.


Nine Lives Are Not Enough
1941 · 1h 3m
country: United States
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.


Underground
1941 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.