John Kelly

AKA: John F. Kelly
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1901-06-29

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Crew Roles

The Dark Corner
Stunts
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {80}

28 Club Bouncer (uncredited)

1941-08-09 6.7

Manpower

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry bet ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Elmer

1938-02-18 7.526

Bringing Up Baby

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a le ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Cafe Mug (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

Motorman

1931-05-01 0

Subway Express

Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop. ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime, Drama

Charlie

1930-05-02 0

The Man Hunter

Rin-Tin-Tin leaves his usual far north and ranch settings for Africa. ...
Genre :Adventure

Snork

1942-02-01 0

Jail House Blues

A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Canvas Back

1934-06-01 6.4

Little Miss Marker

Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for hi ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Harold the Chauffer (uncredited)

1936-12-25 7.331

After the Thin Man

Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her d ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Crime

Maxie

1937-06-07 5.5

Angel's Holiday

Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Crime

Cab Driver (Uncredited)

1932-03-21 5.9

The Mouthpiece

A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent. ...
Genre :Drama

Streetcar Conductor (uncredited)

1933-06-03 5

The Nuisance

Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Detective Larkin

1935-05-15 5

Motive for Revenge

Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty... ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Sylvester

1945-11-16 5.5

The Tiger Woman

Murder mystery programmer from Republic pictures ...
Genre :Thriller

Nero

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

Sailor Barfly (uncredited)

1928-09-16 6.897

The Docks of New York

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Tommy, the Taxi Driver-Thug

1936-02-14 6

The Bridge of Sighs

Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of t ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime

Joe - First Hood

1936-09-13 5

Lady Luck

New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is announced the winner of $2,500 and a ticket worth $1 ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

Al - a Gangster

1935-10-19 6.4

Dr. Socrates

Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout. ...
Genre :Crime

Sgt. Tubbs

1937-03-21 5

23 1/2 Hours Leave

Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer, General Markley. But he gets into an unhappy tangle with a couple of enemy spies (and a ha ...
Genre :Comedy

Boxer

1938-11-05 5

Exposed

A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted. ...
Genre :Drama

Sheriff

1947-08-26 6.7

Captain Boycott

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their ri ...
Genre :Drama, History

Red, Dunning's chauffeur

1938-04-15 0

Female Fugitive

Police set up a dragnet to trap an outlaw's wife whom they believe to be his accomplice. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Knockout Riley

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

'Lead-Head' Hogan (uncredited)

1937-05-22 6.5

The Grand Bounce

A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have enough money in his bank account to cover it. The check was written on Friday afternoon, but cannot be cas ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Bank Teller (uncredited)

1933-11-18 5.8

Havana Widows

Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana. ...
Genre :Comedy

Tully, Star Turkish Bath Attendant (uncredited)

1933-11-18 5.8

Havana Widows

Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana. ...
Genre :Comedy

Truck Driver

1934-12-21 8.5

The Band Plays On

A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars. ...
Genre :Drama

Sailor (uncredited)

1937-10-29 5.143

Live, Love and Learn

A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can b ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Truck Driver Hitting Police Car (uncredited)

1935-08-02 6.3

Woman Wanted

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vo ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

'Shivvy' the Tire Man

1936-09-18 6.9

The Devil Is a Sissy

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Steve's Henchman

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

John L. Sullivan

1936-08-14 0

The Gentleman from Louisiana

In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Kid Couch

1936-11-28 6

Fugitive in the Sky

Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is on the trai ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Action

Gloski (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

Bates (uncredited)

1935-04-20 6

Stolen Harmony

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two b ...
Genre :Crime

Randolph Air Field Mechanic

1935-03-23 6

West Point of the Air

An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer. ...
Genre :Drama

Cab Driver

1937-08-06 6

Exclusive

Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on reporting the news. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Buffalo Bill Oxenstern

1941-08-02 5

Three Sons o' Guns

Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Kelly (uncredited)

1939-08-18 6.1

They Shall Have Music

The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children. ...
Genre :Family, Music, Drama

The Sailor 'Feather Foot' (uncredited)

1939-08-18 5.5

These Glamour Girls

A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she sta ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Bit Player (uncredited)

1944-07-14 5.273

Summer Storm

It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results. ...
Genre :Drama

Hank

1937-11-08 5.429

Portia on Trial

Lady lawyer Portia Merryman defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners, who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon. Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earl ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Adolph Wilson

1934-11-10 6.5

Kid Millions

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Drama

Pete Hawks

1940-01-08 5.682

The Green Hornet

A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide. ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime, Science Fiction

One of Costillo's Hoods (uncredited)

1932-04-09 7.442

Scarface

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life. ...
Genre :Crime, Action, Drama

Puggy (uncredited)

1937-04-30 4

You Can't Buy Luck

When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Taxi Driver

1940-02-29 6

Black Friday

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Crime, Horror, Mystery

Dynamite Dennis (uncredited)

1939-11-04 5.5

Kid Nightingale

A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Bull Nelson

1939-05-22 3.25

Wolf Call

A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural mining community in Canada. ...
Genre :Romance, Adventure

Sailor (uncredited)

1933-11-29 5

Son of a Sailor

A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane. ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure

Cass

1939-11-17 0

Meet Dr. Christian

The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Gob

1937-05-16 5.5

Wings Over Honolulu

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

Buggsie

1938-12-14 0

Convicts at Large

An innocent man is bamboozled into trading places with a dangerous escaped convict. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Louie (uncredited)

1933-11-02 5.7

Broadway Thru a Keyhole

Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also ge ...
Genre :Romance, Music, Drama

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

Rockpile Convict (uncredited)

1940-02-17 6.8

Castle on the Hudson

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Sailor (uncredited)

1940-03-22 6.5

Road to Singapore

Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Morrisey (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

Biff Simpson

1928-03-17 0

Dressed to Kill

A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with gangsters. They're not quite certain if she's actually a p ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Henchman Bully

1945-06-01 0

Trail to Vengeance

A cowboy investigating his brother's murder finds himself going up against a banker who holds the deed to the cowboy's family ranch. ...
Genre :Western

Bombardier (uncredited)

1942-06-26 5.8

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but o ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Sailor at Sally's (uncredited)

1931-11-20 4.3

Suicide Fleet

Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, War

Sgt. Dugan the Jailer

1933-11-09 5.5

Good-bye Love

A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor a big-game hunter nor from a royal family, but he ...
Genre :Comedy

Butch

1939-03-31 5

Sudden Money

Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

O'Farrell

1929-04-27 0

From Headquarters

United States Marine Corps Captain "Happy" Smith and Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer lead a squadron of Marines in a search of a party of American tourists lost in a Central America banana republic jungle. ...
Genre :Drama

Drunken Bricklayer

1943-06-18 6.1

Coney Island

Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Henchman Carney

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

Whitey Eckhart (uncredited)

1930-10-18 6.326

The Doorway to Hell

A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortu ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

French Sailor (Uncredited)

1933-02-03 3.4

The Secret of Madame Blanche

A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Federal Agent / Truck Driver Smuggling Gun (uncredited)

1935-05-31 6.2

Public Hero Number 1

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Di ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Driver (uncredited)

1932-09-18 5.3

Big City Blues

An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mac

1942-05-29 6.3

Moontide

After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Thriller

Cab Driver (Uncredited)

1946-03-01 4.556

Young Widow

A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war. ...
Genre :Drama

Mike

1934-06-08 5.3

Many Happy Returns

Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual Gracie Allen logic---while distracted Papa is try ...
Genre :Comedy

Bus Driver

1937-11-14 5

Merry Go Round of 1938

Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

Policeman at Gallery (uncredited)

1946-04-09 6.538

The Dark Corner

Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Prop Man (uncredited)

1933-08-18 6.094

Morning Glory

Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. I ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

The Olds

2020-02-28 5.72

Wendy

A re-imagining of "Peter Pan" from the point of view of Wendy Darling, who finds herself lost on a mysterious island where aging and time have come unglued. She must fight to save her family, her free ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama

Truck Driver (uncredited)

1933-08-04 5.7

Three Cornered Moon

Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock market crash has depleted their worth. Elizabeth's goofy ...
Genre :Comedy

Lumpy Hogan (uncredited)

1933-10-07 5

The Bowery

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama