Matthew Betz

AKA: Matthew Von Betz, Matthew von Betz, Matthew L. Betz
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1881-09-12

Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {89}

Tate Hurley

1933-04-13 0

The Whirlwind

After years of wandering due to a charge of murder, Tim Reynolds returns to Sagebrush to find the Sheriff Tate Hurley who was his chief accuser. The hatred between the two men was not extinguished, an ...
Genre :Western

Hugo, deafmute sculptor

1933-02-18 6.5

Mystery of the Wax Museum

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor. ...
Genre :Horror, Mystery

Steven McKenna

1922-04-09 0

My Old Kentucky Home

After serving time in Sing Sing, for which he was unjustly sentenced, and encouraged by two "sharpers," Richard Goodloe returns to the home of his wealthy southern mother in dread fear that she and Vi ...
Genre :Drama

Detective Regan

1925-07-20 6.716

The Unholy Three

Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Drama

Red Majors

1930-08-20 6

The Squealer

A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was that she wante ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

"Lovely" Holmes

1933-10-01 5.857

Curtain at Eight

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental pr ...
Genre :Mystery

Black Jack Hovey

1926-08-30 0

The Flame of the Yukon

George Fowler, a young man from the states, arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor, "Blak Jack" Hovey, orders a saloon girl, known only as "The Flame," to fleece him. When she learns he doesn' ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Romance

Guggenheimer - the 'Widow's' Husband

1914-04-17 0

The Winner

Dan Ryan and Fritz Noodle, two would-be politicians, succumb to the charming mannerisms of the Widow Guggenheimer. The widow is undecided which one she shall select for a husband, but finally tells th ...
Genre :Comedy

The Engineer Jordan

1932-08-01 5.2

The Hurricane Express

The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can ...
Genre :Adventure, Mystery, Crime, Action

Gopher

1930-06-14 6.644

The Big House

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Joe Anargas

1924-04-27 0

Those Who Dance

A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang. ...
Genre :Drama

Frank Wilde

1925-05-24 0

White Fang

Silent version of the classic Jack London tale. ...
Genre :Adventure, Family, Western

1931-06-15 6

Stout Hearts and Willing Hands

Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject (Comedy), but was disqualified. ...
Genre :Comedy

Joe Carter

1932-09-09 4.2

Broadway to Cheyenne

A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west. ...
Genre :Western

1937-01-08 5.2

Jail Bait

Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer. ...
Genre :Comedy

Nick

1933-08-11 3.882

Tarzan the Fearless

Mary Brooks' father, who has been studying ancient tribes, falls into the hands of "the people of Zar, god of the Emerald Fingers." Tarzan helps Mary locate her father, rescues everyone from the High ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance

Henchman Childress

1932-09-15 6

Gold

A cowboy turned gold miner fights a gang that buys miner's claims and then murders them. ...
Genre :Western

Earl Rand

1929-01-27 0

Fugitives

Nightclub singer Alice Carroll is found in the office of club owner Al Barrow, who is lying dead on the floor. Alice has been overheard threatening to kill Barrow rather than give in to his advances. ...
Genre :Crime

Fighting Miner

1923-03-01 7

Luck

A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are ...
Genre :Comedy, Action

Tony the Wop

1922-01-15 2

Boomerang Bill

When New York City police officer O'Malley learns of a young man who is about to embark on a life of crime by taking part in a robbery, he takes the boy aside and tells him the story of Boomerang Bill ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Crime

Flash McQuaid

1933-08-28 4.25

The Big Chance

Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight. ...
Genre :Crime

Tayo

1931-09-06 0

Julius Sizzer

After the success of "Little Caesar," "Public Enemy" and "Scarface," here is the inevitable parody, in which Liddle Sizzer engages in a vicious Chicago gang war. He's aided by his innocent twin brothe ...
Genre :

Dorsky

1936-11-22 1

Fury Below

Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low production, and is facing a strike by the miners. Jim will soon loose the mine if production doesn't ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Tex O'Donnell

1936-11-14 4

Racing Blood

Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Phyllis (Gladys Blake), who is not a jockey, to buy ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Bill, the Tough Hobo

1936-03-02 5.5

The Little Red Schoolhouse

Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house. ...
Genre :Drama

Jerry Crawford

1926-03-06 0

The Little Irish Girl

Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny has come to the big city to sell his grandmother' ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Tom Whalen

1931-09-19 5

Side Show

A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Dan

1935-04-01 0

On Probation

A corrupt politician adopts a young girl. A few years later he finds himself falling in love with her, but discovers that she in turn loves a rich young bachelor. ...
Genre :Drama

Doyle

1935-12-30 0

Just My Luck

Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his formula for an indestructible rubber, called Durex, will be a success. Others are also, and Honer endures ...
Genre :Action, Comedy

Frago, lead henchman

1937-05-07 1

The Law Commands

Night riders are terrorizing homesteaders, and the town doctor tries to keep the locals from forming a vigilante group. After more towns people are killed, however, the rest of the town makes the doct ...
Genre :Western

Henry Jensen

1936-09-01 6

The Black Coin

Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden treasure revealed by cursed coins. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Snowy Hoagland

1932-07-14 5

Alias Mary Smith

A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much. ...
Genre :Mystery

Inspector Starrett

1937-09-01 5

Jungle Menace

Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Lewis Cantor

1934-05-15 4

The Fighting Rookie

Patrolman Jim Trent (Jack La Rue) hears the screams of a woman and rushes to her aid in an upstairs apartment. Inside, he is hit on the head and whiskey poured on his uniform. Gangster Louis Cantor (M ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Jarvis

1933-02-10 0

State Trooper

Mike Rolph quits his job, seemingly, as a highway patrolman and takes the position of the Police Chief of W. J. Brady's oil refinery. He is also romantically involved with Brady's daughter, June. It a ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Al Thompson

1935-05-15 7

Let 'em Have It

Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Ace Martin / Ed Winters

1930-07-20 6

Shooting Straight

A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Blackie

1933-06-15 0

I Have Lived

A girl with a shady past is picked by a playwright to be the star of his newest play. ...
Genre :Drama

Frank Bowman

1931-02-23 0

The Single Sin

A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire. The magnate falls madly in love with his new secretary and they marry. Unfortunately, s ...
Genre :Comedy

Insect McGann

1930-11-23 0

See America Thirst

Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals. ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Crime

Joe Dagget

1924-12-01 10

The Lighthouse by the Sea

A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of liquor-smugglers is trying to destroy the lighthous ...
Genre :Family, Drama

Henchman Smokey Preston

1935-09-20 5.7

The Girl Who Came Back

A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Blackie Burke

1935-03-30 7

The Tin Man

Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius and has made a robot who does everything. The inventor manipulates the robot's control board from a hid ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure

Schani Eberle

1928-10-06 7

The Wedding March

A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Hobo #1

1937-04-02 7

The Man Who Found Himself

Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane t ...
Genre :Drama

Brick Dugan

1932-11-05 4.5

The Big Flash

Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangster and his girl. Harry and another photographer first visit the gangster's girl, and then wait at t ...
Genre :Comedy

Chet Watson (uncredited)

1933-02-11 7.25

Child of Manhattan

Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill est ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Man at Bar (uncredited)

1935-03-22 6.7

Mississippi

A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Senor Cevallos

1933-12-06 0

Under Secret Orders

A young bank employee is sent to South America to bring some valuable bonds to a client there. Unfortunately for him, he tends to drink a bit too much and winds up getting involved with a gang that's ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Don, a Townsman

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

Carl Lawler

1933-03-03 0

Silent Men

In prison for a crime he didn't commit, Tim Richards has escaped and is now a cattle inspector. He is after the Wilder brothers who he thinks are rustling cattle. ...
Genre :Western

Jake Stuke

1927-09-01 6.167

The Patent Leather Kid

The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring... particularly for the United States once it enters World War I. Eventually, he i ...
Genre :War, Drama, Romance

Captain Ladye Kirby

1926-03-07 0

Oh! What a Nurse!

Oh! What a Nurse! is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film stars Sydney Chaplin, Patsy Ruth Miller, Gayne Whitman, Matthew Betz, Edith Yorke ...
Genre :Comedy

The Crook

1933-05-06 0

Knight Duty

Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he cadges a ride on a flatbed truck, is knocked out when a wax figure falls on him during the ride, and is carr ...
Genre :Comedy

Captain Klodel

1926-05-09 0

Shipwrecked

Larry O'Neil, a ship's cook, finds and befriends stowaway Lois Austin, who is a fugitive from a murder charge. The ship's captain, Klodel, also finds her and forces her to do his will as he has receiv ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

Jessin

1932-07-29 0

Speed Madness

More mile-a-minute action with the stunt ace Richard Talmadge playing the loafer son of a shipbuilder facing financial ruin. Bob Stuart takes charge of the company's development of a new speedboat - u ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Red Larkin

1931-11-25 6

The Fighting Marshal

Not knowing he has just been pardoned, Tim Benton (Tim McCoy, Texas Cyclone) escapes from prison with his cellmate, Red Larkin (Matthew Betz, The Wedding March), a dangerous killer. Disguised as the t ...
Genre :Western

Hunt

1935-07-31 0

Trails of the Wild

An agent tracking down a man who disappeared in the mysterious "Ghost Mountain" area discovers discovers the hideout of a gang of murderous outlaws. ...
Genre :Western

Schani

1929-12-31 0

The Honeymoon

The honeymoon of Prince Nicki in the Alps, and the wedding of Mitzi and Schani. Mitzi still loves Nicki, and jealous Schani decides once again to kill the prince. Schani shoots at Nicki, but Cecilia ...
Genre :Drama

Horace Raymore

1935-10-20 6

Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery

A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal an island's oil reserves. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy

Mooney

1931-07-01 0

Salvation Nell

Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out.... ...
Genre :Drama

'Red' Hawkins

1925-10-31 6

Lights of Old Broadway

Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Warden

1932-09-15 0

The Western Code

When Tim Barrett rides into Carabinas, his reputation as a lawman precedes him. Rescuing Polly Loomis from the unwanted attentions of a saloon ruffian, he learns her mother married ranch foreman Nick ...
Genre :Western

Ole Hannson

1924-10-25 0

The Only Woman

A 1924 film directed by Sidney Olcott. ...
Genre :Drama

Gypsy Chief

1926-03-28 0

The Exquisite Sinner

Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who forsakes the humdrum business world for the bohemian life of an artist. Josef von Sternberg had been the o ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Joe Connors

1928-09-06 6

The Terror

Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror". ...
Genre :Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Romowski's Valet

1934-03-18 6

The Countess of Monte Cristo

A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow extra takes on the role of her servant. ...
Genre :Comedy

'Doc' Striker

1929-06-23 6

The Girl in the Glass Cage

A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her uncle is stealing the box-office receipts. ...
Genre :Drama

'Dip' McGurk

1923-10-31 7

Let's Go

The no-good son of a company owner is sent to investigate a problematic business deal. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Ed Scott

1921-08-01 3

Burn 'Em Up Barnes

Car racer Burn 'em Up Barnes, son of a wealthy manufacturer, leaves home to make his own way in the world. After being robbed by hoodlums, Barnes joins a group of hobos who take him in and show him th ...
Genre :Crime, Adventure

Red

1930-09-21 5.31

Her Man

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Herman Weil

1936-05-01 6

Florida Special

A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears while carrying $11-million in unset jewels. ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Chieftain (Uncredited)

1937-04-09 6.5

The Soldier and the Lady

In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a travel ...
Genre :Adventure, History, Romance, War

Schmidt

1934-11-18 2

Men of the Night

"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he expects to get some information concerning Packey Davis, head of a ring of jewel thieves. His suspicion ...
Genre :Crime

Bob

1923-07-08 0

A Self Made Wife

Tim Goodwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He soon works his way to the top of the social scale, but Corrie doesn't change at all--she stays a dour, dra ...
Genre :Drama

The Killer

1928-06-30 0

Telling the World

The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Davis follows Chrystal to China. When Chrystal arrives in China, Davis has to save her from an executio ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Dixon

1935-03-01 4

Mutiny Ahead

A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Pedro

1924-08-17 0

The Siren Of Seville

Young Gallito (Allan Forrest) wants very badly to become a matador. His sweetheart, Dolores (Priscilla Dean), does everything she can to help him and she wheedles Pedro, a renowned bullfighter (Matthe ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

'Dagger' Foo

1928-04-07 0

The Crimson City

Gregory Kent is on the run for a crime he did not commit. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Romance

Jim Blake

1931-11-15 5.5

Soul of the Slums

A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission in the slu ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Self (archive footage)

1976-03-31 7

It's Showtime

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors. ...
Genre :Documentary

Wash Gibbs

1928-01-01 0

The Shepherd of the Hills

David Howitt, a stranger, comes among the mountain folk of the Missouri hills and, taken in by an Ozark family, becomes known as The Shepherd because of his gentle and kindly ways. Years earlier, his ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Trusty Smith

1933-01-31 6

On Your Guard

An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting three orphans from land swindlers instead. ...
Genre :

Gus Newman

1928-12-28 6

Sins of the Fathers

A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man. His wife finds out what happ ...
Genre :Drama

'Pinky' Sellers

1924-03-02 0

Love's Whirlpool

Toughened criminal Jim Reagan tries to persuade his brother, Larry, to go straight, but Larry attempts to rob a banker, Richard Milton, and is arrested. Milton refuses to be lenient, and when Larry is ...
Genre :Drama

Bert Robinson

1920-10-03 0

The Stealers

Rev. Robert Martin is an ex-minister who has lost his faith because of his wife's faithlessness, and taken up a life of crime as head of a band of pickpockets masquerading as religious workers who ply ...
Genre :Drama

Eddie Gault

1925-07-01 0

My Lady's Lips

A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female leader, and wh ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Drama

Giles

1919-06-22 0

Putting One Over

When a train crash kills Horace Barney, the heir to a fortune that his doctors and guardians were planning to extort the unscrupulous trio quickly substitute his double Jack Trevor who by chance was o ...
Genre :Drama

Hood with Toothache (uncredited)

1935-08-09 5

The E-Flat Man

Elmer attempts to elope with his fiancée, but they escape her parents by driving off in a car that's actually owned by a wanted gangster. When they hear on the radio that the police are looking for th ...
Genre :Comedy