Jack Roper

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {44}

Nipper

1942-02-06 0

Broadway Big Shot

This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous journalist, also a star quarterback on the town college ...
Genre :Drama

Barfly (uncredited)

1948-02-22 5.7

Panhandle

An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler. ...
Genre :Western

Hood (uncredited)

1928-01-15 0

Sharp Shooters

A "love-'em-and-leave-'em" sailor hooks up with a dance-hall girl in Paris while waiting for his ship to sail. She falls in love with him, and when his ship leaves port she decides to show up at its n ...
Genre :Comedy

Montgomery, Club Inferno Employee (uncredited)

1941-03-07 5.4

A Man Betrayed

A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politician is actually a crook - all while falling in love with the politician's daughter. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Romance, Comedy

Eddie Burns

1940-10-02 5.8

Angels Over Broadway

Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one la ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Crewman (uncredited)

1941-04-17 0

Mutiny in the Arctic

A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of the group succumb to greed, plotting to bump off the others and claim the radium for themselves. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Club Bouncer

1946-05-20 6

Larceny in Her Heart

In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stalli ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

Wolf Moran

1938-07-05 4.833

Flaming Frontiers

Tom Grant has found a rich gold vein and Bart Eaton is after it. Tom's sister Mary heads for the gold fields and Eaton and his men follow. Eaton teams up with Ace Daggett who plans to doublecross him ...
Genre :Action, Western

Fighter (uncredited)

1956-05-08 7.1

The Harder They Fall

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his ...
Genre :Drama

Occult Researcher

1989-06-06 5.2

Devil Worship: The Rise of Satanism

An epidemic of ritual abuse of children from infants to teenagers is sweeping through the country. According to recent TV and radio broadcasts 2 million children a year are reported missing, many too ...
Genre :Documentary

Gillespie Henchman

1939-08-06 4.7

Wall Street Cowboy

When his ranch falls on hard times, Cowboy Roy Roger has trouble making his mortgage payment and he takes his song and dance to Wall Street to try to raise cash fast. ...
Genre :Western

Singing Prisoner

1935-06-07 6.1

The Nitwits

A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Scat (uncredited)

1939-06-07 6

Invitation to Happiness

An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Dacoit 10 Looking in Window

1940-03-15 6.1

Drums of Fu Manchu

The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associate ...
Genre :Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Action

Killer McCully

1940-12-01 0

Heroes of the Saddle

A fast-paced, enjoyable entry in the long-running Three Mesqueteers Western series, Heroes of the Saddle featured the three cowboy pals promising to look after Peggy Bell, the little daughter of morta ...
Genre :Western

Henchman (uncredited)

1940-02-09 6.4

My Little Chickadee

While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Donaldson (uncredited)

1942-11-14 7.149

Gentleman Jim

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Nick Palerno (uncredited)

1940-11-29 5.1

Tin Pan Alley

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Music

Minor Role (uncredited)

1940-11-29 6.5

The Bank Dick

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothi ...
Genre :Comedy

Hood

1940-06-28 5

Hold That Woman!

A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped pa ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

Slugger - the Pug (uncredited)

1940-11-01 6.1

Junior G-Men

A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote deton ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime, Action

Man of Low Intellect (uncredited)

1940-03-03 5.8

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe

A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless i ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Action

Poison Kerrigan

1929-03-19 5

The Duke Steps Out

Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he sees co-ed Susie. The students wonder about his having a chauffeur and house full of servants. Susie ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Henchman Squint

1941-02-25 6

Ridin' the Cherokee Trail

Singing cowboy Tex Ritter and his sidekick, Slim Andrews, star in this musical Western about a couple of Texas Rangers who defend the citizens of a small territory from power-hungry outlaws. Villain B ...
Genre :Western

'Rawhide' Fenton

1941-03-30 0

North from the Lone Star

Wild Bill Hickock (William Elliott), aka The Peaceable Man, meters out justice in the tough town of Deadwood in this highly fictional western from Columbia. Unlike the historic character, Elliott's gu ...
Genre :Western

Detective

1941-05-09 8.7

The Spider Returns

The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spider to save the country. ...
Genre :Crime, Action, Adventure

Champ

1941-05-02 0

The Ring and the Belle

Andy becomes the manager of a prizefighter. The problem is, the figher has just skipped town. ...
Genre :

Henchman Larkin

1940-01-19 2

West of Carson City

West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns. The story takes place in a gold-rush community where the locals are taken to the cleaners by duplicitious Eastern ...
Genre :Western

'Sledgehammer'

1943-11-01 5

Swing Fever

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

Pirate (uncredited)

1938-01-22 5

Captain Kidd's Treasure

In this short, a modern-day promoter tries to sell a man the idea of searching for Captain Kidd's buried treasure, claiming he has the original map. A flashback reveals that Kidd was known to be a pir ...
Genre :Drama, History

Waldo

1948-02-07 6

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad

Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Waldo

1948-09-19 6

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Guard (uncredited)

1950-08-05 6.1

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion

Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sh ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure

Sailor (uncredited)

1941-05-30 6.4

In the Navy

Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hope ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, War

Waldo, the Wyoming Wildcat

1946-05-26 0

Joe Palooka, Champ

After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series. ...
Genre :Comedy

Coach

1945-01-03 4.773

Mom and Dad

A teenage girl from a traditional family goes on a date with a pilot and ends up having sex with him. After the pilot dies in a plane crash, the girl discovers she is pregnant with his child. ...
Genre :Drama

Spider

1939-05-20 3

Unmarried

Pals Pat Rogers and Slag Bailey try to collect a debt from Slag's recently deceased boxing promoter but wind up collecting his child, instead, and raising him as their own son. ...
Genre :Romance, Action, Drama

Scranton

1949-03-06 6

Joe Palooka in the Big Fight

Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his innocence. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Henchman Gunsell

1950-11-04 0

Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle

Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law. ...
Genre :Crime

Waldo - Sparring Partner

1946-10-05 0

Gentleman Joe Palooka

In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedl ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Servant Eating Caviar (Uncredited)

1936-02-21 5.154

The Garden Murder Case

Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides—but Vance suspects foul play. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

Butcher

1951-03-30 0

Stop That Cab

The trials and tribulations of a cab driver working the night shift, who must put with an assortment of crazies, hardcases and sob stories during work and then has to come home to a loud, argumentativ ...
Genre :Comedy

Sandhog (uncredited)

1943-04-09 6.833

No Time for Love

An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

The Champ

1941-08-29 0

The Pittsburgh Kid

Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of these was Billy Conn, who after being knocked out by ...
Genre :Action, Drama