Frank Melton

AKA:
0.3513

1907-12-06

Pine Apple, Alabama, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {56}

Fleming 'Flem' Talley

1934-09-15 6.4

Judge Priest

Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Jasper Backus

1941-04-03 5.543

Pot o' Gold

Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Reporter

1939-10-27 6.9

The Cat and the Canary

Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Wiliiam Merrill Jr.

1941-07-11 5

They Meet Again

Dr. Christian takes time out from his appointed rounds to help clear a bank teller of embezzlement charges. ...
Genre :Drama

Dave 'Tex' Hodges

1938-09-02 0

Freshman Year

A budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme selling "flunk" insurance to his fellow students goes terribly awry. ...
Genre :Romance, Music

Newcomb, the Author (uncredited)

1939-12-01 0

The Night of Nights

A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented. ...
Genre :Drama

Frank Melton: Jimmy Allen aka The Texas Kid

1936-08-29 0

The Traitor

To prevent a lynching, Ranger Tim lets two outlaws go saying he will get them later. This gets him kicked out of the Rangers and he goes across the border and joins Big George's gang who are running c ...
Genre :Western

Ronnie Washburne

1936-02-17 5

August Week End

At a high-society dinner party, a wealthy, older and married man sets his sights on a beautiful young girl who's loved by a younger and not-so-wealthy man. ...
Genre :Drama

Clark

1935-05-04 8

$10 Raise

A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart... ...
Genre :Comedy

Matt Peasely

1937-05-24 4.3

Affairs of Cappy Ricks

Cappy Ricks, a crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage to discover that his family and his business are in chaos--his daughter is set to marry a nitwit that he can't stand, and his fut ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Clabby Holden

1937-04-09 6.7

Too Many Wives

An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp. ...
Genre :Comedy

Les Winters

1936-12-14 6

Silks and Saddles

College student Jimmy Shaw inherits a racehorse, named Lightning Lad, and sells stock to fellow students in order to obtain funds for racing the horse. Lightning Lad wins very race he is entered in. M ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Romance

Elwin

1934-03-02 7

David Harum

Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Harry Ware

1933-02-10 6.2

State Fair

The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Frank Young

1934-12-11 0

365 Nights in Hollywood

Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is drawn into the plans of the school's owner to bilk a wealthy young man out of the funds he has supplied to ...
Genre :Comedy

Bellhop (uncredited)

1935-09-13 6.4

The Gay Deception

A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Frank

1948-07-26 6

Daredevils of the Clouds

Terry O'Rourke, an American operating a small airline in Canada, is having a tough time making a go of it; he has to cope with unfavorable weather conditions, a rocky terrain, and a large Americam com ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Specks Callahan

1936-09-08 5.5

They Met in a Taxi

A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

One of Elvira's Admirers

1929-06-28 4

The River of Romance

Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Phil 'Pee Wee' Parker (uncredited)

1933-10-20 5.286

Ace of Aces

A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Gas Station Attendant

1938-03-03 7

Start Cheering

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

First Yokel (uncredited)

1939-02-17 6.8

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his pe ...
Genre :Comedy

1937-02-05 0

Outcast

A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide. ...
Genre :Drama

Budge

1937-05-16 5.5

Wings Over Honolulu

A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Ollie - Dithers' Employee (uncredited)

1940-07-25 7.2

Blondie Has Servant Trouble

Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: ...
Genre :Comedy

Alabama Man #3 (uncredited)

1940-01-27 5.5

The Fighting 69th

Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, War

Cub Reporter

1935-07-17 0

The Daring Young Man

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). A ...
Genre :Comedy

Stu

1941-01-03 5.8

Second Chorus

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performa ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

Onlooker at Gallery (uncredited)

1944-10-25 7.369

The Woman in the Window

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Reporter (uncredited)

1940-08-10 6.3

The Return of Frank James

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords. ...
Genre :Western

Confederate Soldier (uncredited)

1951-09-27 6.4

The Red Badge of Courage

Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he learns that the Union actually won the battle, shame ...
Genre :War

Perry - Emily's Boyfriend

1933-12-22 6

Mr. Skitch

After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Adventure

Jack (George's intern pal)

1937-05-22 3

Damaged Goods

A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis. ...
Genre :Drama

Boarder (uncredited)

1941-12-19 5.4

Road to Happiness

A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy. ...
Genre :Drama, Music, Romance

Otto

1943-08-19 5.75

A Lady Takes a Chance

A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Photographer

1941-12-25 6.6

Remember the Day

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost. ...
Genre :War, Drama, Romance

Don Weston

1938-06-15 0

Riders of the Black Hills

Riders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid cowboys known as the Three Mesquiteers; Stony (Robert Livingston), Tucson (Ray Corrigan) and Lullaby (Max ...
Genre :Western

Hotel Clerk

1939-05-03 0

Big Town Czar

When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits col ...
Genre :Mystery

Pete

1942-11-07 5.5

Wrecking Crew

Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew in their lives away from the job and shows rhe comr ...
Genre :Action, Drama

John Girard (1825)

1934-06-27 5.6

The World Moves On

Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be a ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance, War

Lieutenant Shreve

1938-02-04 6.4

The Buccaneer

French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance, History

Turner Dixon

1942-08-28 5.7

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life. ...
Genre :Drama

Doctor

1943-08-19 6.6

Destroyer

Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, War

Joe Stevens

1938-12-17 0

Once Over Lightly

The big Barber College competition between rivals Clipton and Beardsley is coming up and everything is on the line for professor and coach Kapouris. But thanks to a secret depilatory he developed, Cl ...
Genre :Comedy

Armed Guard

1944-07-26 6.1

Bride by Mistake

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 ...
Genre :Comedy

FBI Agent

1942-03-06 4.5

Black Dragons

It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery, Horror

Glem

1945-03-15 5.6

The Man Who Walked Alone

A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and expl ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Barton Henshaw

1937-07-19 0

Wild and Woolly

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 ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Western

Frank Cordeen

1937-10-16 6

Trouble at Midnight

Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharged from WWI, Cameron goes into the dairy-farming business, only to be hounded by his chief creditor, ...
Genre :Crime, Action

Lieutenant Gilchrist

1936-09-25 0

The Glory Trail

It's just after the Civil War and Captain Morgan and his confederate soldiers are establishing a town on the Bozeman trail. Colonel Strong and his union men are at the nearby fort. Things are peaceful ...
Genre :Western, History, Action, Drama

Howard Norcross

1934-07-19 1

Handy Andy

A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty young daughter with the nitwit son of the chain's o ...
Genre :Comedy

Fosdick

1934-05-04 4.9

Stand Up and Cheer!

President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon run ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Family

Lottery Ticket Seller

1935-07-05 6.1

The Farmer Takes a Wife

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Man at Racetrack (uncredited)

1938-03-11 6.1

Dangerous to Know

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a soci ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Man (uncredited)

1941-02-21 6.918

The Strawberry Blonde

Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Bif ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Willis Parker

1935-08-09 0

Welcome Home

A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Romance