Frank Fanning

AKA:
0.653

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {45}

Police Officer Wilbur

1942-03-27 6

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-k ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Fingerprint Expert (uncredited)

1938-07-20 7.2

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

Cop (uncredited)

1937-06-30 4.7

Step Lively, Jeeves!

A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Policeman Frank (uncredited)

1938-03-03 5.125

Maid's Night Out

A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid. ...
Genre :Comedy

Detective (uncredited)

1936-11-06 7

Under Your Spell

A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Guard in Visitor's Room (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

Sheriff (uncredited)

1932-07-08 5.5

Beyond the Rockies

A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers. ...
Genre :Western

Desk Sergeant (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

Detective

1939-01-05 6

Homicide Bureau

After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violati ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

Cop

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

Plainclothesman with Sheriff

1935-04-27 6

Mary Jane's Pa

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to fi ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Detective Brown (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

Policeman (uncredited)

1934-09-11 6

Girl in Danger

Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster. ...
Genre :Mystery, Action, Crime

Postal Inspector

1942-07-24 3.2

Thundering Hoofs

Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father's stage line. ...
Genre :Western

Detective at Nightclub (uncredited)

1933-01-28 6.1

Parachute Jumper

An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob. ...
Genre :Drama

Police Officer

1940-12-13 6.1

Murder Over New York

When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Comedy, Thriller

Detective (uncredited)

1939-05-13 5.667

Torchy Runs for Mayor

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy

Burgandy Café Doorman (uncredited)

1946-04-01 5

The Truth About Murder

A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of his wife. ...
Genre :Mystery

Sheriff Lem (uncredited)

1932-08-27 4.7

Ride Him, Cowboy

John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the real murderer, a bad guy known as The Hawk, is the town's leading citizen, Drury arrested on a fraudul ...
Genre :Action, Western, Romance

Jailer

1937-08-18 6.7

One Mile from Heaven

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds. ...
Genre :Drama

Detective with Danny (uncredited)

1940-04-06 5.8

It All Came True

After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Music, Romance

Detective

1928-10-30 6.227

The Power of the Press

The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his enthusiasm he writes that the main suspect is Jane. When she confronts Clem, she convinces him to help her prove ...
Genre :Drama

Courthouse Guard (uncredited)

1940-04-19 6.8

Johnny Apollo

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then fall ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Romance

Policeman in Courtroom

1931-11-13 6

Are These Our Children?

A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, falling in with the wrong crowd and finally finding himself on trial for murder committed during a ro ...
Genre :Drama

Frank - Guard (uncredited)

1936-03-28 6.5

Road Gang

A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Detective Fanning

1936-12-11 6

The Plot Thickens

A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case. ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy

Turnkey

1941-07-18 6

Dance Hall

Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer Joe Brooks. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

Silent Arresting Detective

1935-05-11 6.7

Dinky

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge. ...
Genre :Drama

Cop (uncredited)

1936-12-04 6.8

Charlie Chan at the Opera

A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Tax Assessor

1929-03-02 0

Are Scotchmen Tight

Two competitive Scotsmen are neighbours. Trouble starts when a tax inspector announces his imminent arrival, and the Scotsmen have to stash their expensive furniture. As soon as one succeeds in hiding ...
Genre :Comedy

Warden

1935-10-08 4.5

She Couldn't Take It

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, incl ...
Genre :Comedy

Detective Driving Police Car (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

Wilson's Driver (uncredited)

1935-09-14 6.2

Special Agent

A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster's bookkeeper. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Policeman (uncredited)

1939-12-09 6

Private Detective

A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire. ...
Genre :Mystery

Policeman Mitchell (uncredited)

1940-08-17 4.3

Money and the Woman

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Cop (uncredited)

1934-05-26 3.7

The Merry Frinks

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Doorman George (uncredited)

1945-09-01 0

Swingin' on a Rainbow

A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Policeman

1937-05-14 4

The Great Hospital Mystery

A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient. ...
Genre :Mystery

Police Detective with Millett (uncredited)

1942-05-08 6.8

In This Our Life

An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Cop in Park (Uncredited)

1945-04-13 5.4

The Phantom Speaks

The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder. ...
Genre :Action, Romance, Mystery, Horror, Crime

Train Conductor (uncredited)

1941-11-28 0

Cadet Girl

A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

Detective (Uncredited)

1942-05-29 6.077

The Falcon Takes Over

While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Policeman (Uncredited)

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

Dock Official (uncredited)

1935-05-03 7.2

Vagabond Lady

Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vag ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

1918-02-03 0

The Lamb

The Lamb is a 1918 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It is believed to be lost. ...
Genre :Comedy