Monte Vandergrift

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {79}

Guard (uncredited)

1937-12-24 5.8

True Confession

A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she " ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Crime

Policeman (uncredited)

1934-06-15 5.8

Murder on the Blackboard

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrest ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

First Detective - with Earphones (uncredited)

1938-07-20 7.167

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from its ex ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Al

1939-01-07 4.2

The Phantom Creeps

A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions. ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Horror

Detective

1936-12-23 5

The Mandarin Mystery

Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Miner

1935-01-05 0

Helldorado

Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J. F. Van Avery after he helps them to replace the top of their convertible when it begins to ...
Genre :Drama

Delegate

1932-06-16 7.2

The Dark Horse

The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to g ...
Genre :Comedy

Smith (uncredited)

1935-07-16 5

Smart Girl

Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designi ...
Genre :Drama

Sailor (uncredited)

1935-10-25 4.8

Rendezvous

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies. ...
Genre :Comedy, War

1937-02-12 0

Clarence

The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone. Clarence ingratiates himself with the wealthy and ec ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Family

Moxey

1936-11-04 5

Ellis Island

It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash. They are soon apprehended ...
Genre :Drama

Deputy (uncredited)

1935-12-13 6.6

Seven Keys to Baldpate

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Grinton

1939-10-20 5

Television Spy

A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it. ...
Genre :Science Fiction

Policeman (uncredited)

1935-11-16 0

Hot Money

A thief on the run dumps some hot money in Thelma and Patsy's lap. ...
Genre :Comedy

Brakeman

1936-04-10 6.5

The Moon's Our Home

A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During the honeymoon, all hell breaks loose as a comedic w ...
Genre :Comedy

Studio Representative

1935-11-22 6.3

In Person

Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Reporter

1934-06-20 3.5

Hollywood Mystery

A PR man for a low-budget movie studio comes up with what he believes is the perfect gimmick--to make a gangster picture with a real mobster in the lead role. ...
Genre :

Process Server (uncredited)

1937-05-07 5.6

Woman Chases Man

A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Plainclothesman Finding Gun (uncredited)

1937-01-08 6.8

We Who Are About to Die

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Sailor

1937-12-31 5.2

Wells Fargo

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he r ...
Genre :History, Western

Detective (uncredited)

1938-07-16 5.1

Racket Busters

A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Policeman

1938-05-13 6.5

Hold That Kiss

Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Guard (uncredited)

1933-03-04 5.9

Parole Girl

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Policeman with Taxi (uncredited)

1939-06-12 5.3

Tell No Tales

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama

Brakeman

1938-07-09 4

Cowboy from Brooklyn

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot. ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Detective Martin

1938-01-14 5

Everybody's Doing It

Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze. ...
Genre :Crime, Romance, Comedy

Cop Announcer

1937-11-07 7

High Flyers

Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, ...
Genre :Comedy

Guard Searching in Patrol Car (uncredited)

1939-10-21 5

Smashing the Money Ring

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama

Friendly Prison Guard (uncredited)

1936-09-11 5.3

Sworn Enemy

A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster. ...
Genre :Romance, Crime, Drama

Stage Lighting Man (uncredited)

1933-09-29 5

Stage Mother

Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Waiter (uncredited)

1936-01-24 6.6

Strike Me Pink

Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters. ...
Genre :Comedy

Policeman (uncredited)

1935-08-30 5

Here Comes the Band

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee s ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Guard at Prison Dock (uncredited)

1939-01-24 5

Blackwell's Island

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Detective Dietz (uncredited)

1939-03-29 6.8

Let Us Live

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innoce ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Detective

1939-03-31 6

Almost a Gentleman

Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

Police Officer Drivng Patrol Car (uncredited)

1939-05-19 6.4

It's a Wonderful World

Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Crime, Mystery

Official from D.A.'s Office (Uncredited)

1939-07-28 6

The Spellbinder

Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled b ...
Genre :Crime, Romance, Drama

Police Officer Bergin

1939-08-10 6.4

Miracles for Sale

A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered. ...
Genre :Mystery

messenger (uncredited)

1936-08-28 6.3

The Texas Rangers

Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw. ...
Genre :Western

Judge (uncredited)

1938-02-12 5

The Daredevil Drivers

To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Romance

Prentice

1939-12-15 5

Missing Evidence

G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tick ...
Genre :Crime

Policeman

1939-03-24 6

Sergeant Madden

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Corporal (uncredited)

1939-12-15 4.4

Balalaika

A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love. ...
Genre :Romance, Music

Watchman (Uncredited)

1936-02-28 5.6

The Preview Murder Mystery

Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Townsman (uncredited)

1936-03-12 6

The Country Doctor

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets. ...
Genre :Drama

Electrician (uncredited)

1936-08-20 2.5

Hollywood Boulevard

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Win ...
Genre :Drama

Hotel Detective

1936-11-27 5.5

Smartest Girl in Town

A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model. ...
Genre :Comedy

Minor Role

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

Police Officer

1938-04-30 6.4

The Beloved Brat

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Sailor on Flying Swan (uncredited)

1937-06-25 7.4

Captains Courageous

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade the ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Family

Orderly

1932-08-14 4

Trapped in Tia Juana

An American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know is his long-lost twin brother. Dorothy Holbert has a hard time figuring out which is which, especial ...
Genre :Western, Comedy

Politician

1936-09-26 0

The Girl on the Front Page

The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Monte - organ installer (uncredited)

1938-03-12 6

The First Hundred Years

David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Studio Cop

1932-12-05 5.1

The Death Kiss

When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the ki ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy, Horror

Moxie Malley, henchman

1936-06-13 4.4

Easy Money

Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the comp ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Patrolman (uncredited)

1936-08-01 0

Crash Donovan

A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring. ...
Genre :Drama

Air Field Radio Operator

1934-12-15 4.7

Murder in the Clouds

Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murde ...
Genre :Adventure, Mystery

Policeman

1937-01-17 6

The Mighty Treve

Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama, Western

Policeman at Roller Rink

1938-07-29 6

The Chaser

A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, th ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Dawson

1935-04-19 6

Private Worlds

At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor are broken up by the new superintendent, Dr. Charles Monet, who has a low regard for women physician ...
Genre :Drama

Detective (uncredited)

1933-10-28 6.1

The Kennel Murder Case

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Detective (uncredited)

1934-09-22 6.5

The Case of the Howling Dog

A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Deputy Sheriff on Train (uncredited)

1935-05-04 6.6

'G' Men

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Br ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Motorcop (archive footage) (uncredited)

1941-08-07 5.8

Highway West

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

First Detective (Uncredited)

1934-06-02 6.2

Fog Over Frisco

Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Traffic Policeman (uncredited)

1937-01-23 7.112

You Only Live Once

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Second Mechanic (Uncredited)

1936-04-24 5.5

Absolute Quiet

Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary hostage, the convicts inadvertently cause the cras ...
Genre :Drama

Clancy

1937-04-16 4.3

California Straight Ahead

A truck driver races a train to the West Coast in an attempt to determine which method of transportation is faster. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Romance

Man from Board of Health

1934-07-18 5

Shoot the Works

The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to suit his purposes, but this time it is he who ends u ...
Genre :Comedy

Audience Member (Uncredited)

1935-07-12 7

Mad Love

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer. ...
Genre :Horror, Romance

Jarvis Goon

1949-06-06 3.8

The Phantom Creeps

The truncated feature version of the 4½ hour serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions. ...
Genre :Action, Science Fiction, TV Movie, Horror

Plainclothesman (uncredited)

1931-03-15 4.9

Behind Office Doors

Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Jake Mitchell

1931-11-01 0

Shotgun Pass

A rancher's plan to herd his horses is complicated by an uncooperative landowner. ...
Genre :Western

Cop in Cafe

1935-09-12 6.5

Two for Tonight

A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Detective Bart (uncredited)

1936-04-17 5.4

Murder on a Bridle Path

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detectiv ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Neighbor (uncredited)

1935-01-25 6.538

The Gilded Lily

Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who secretly loves her. When Peter learns that the already-engaged C ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Prison Guard (uncredited)

1934-04-10 6.4

Whirlpool

An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Detective (uncredited)

1934-04-28 6.3

Upperworld

A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Policeman in Chase Car (uncredited)

1938-04-22 5

Go Chase Yourself

When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime