Tom Coleman

AKA:

0.9953

1897-01-12

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {95}

Townsman (uncredited)

1949-06-24 6.8

Not Wanted

After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child. ...

Genre :Drama

Warehouse Watchman

1948-03-07 4

Angels' Alley

Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

Miner (uncredited)

1954-02-12 6.9

The Far Country

During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly ...

Genre :Western

Doubledecker Bus Conductor (uncredited)

1937-07-16 7

Easy Living

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mar ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Detective (uncredited)

1947-12-06 4.9

The Chinese Ring

Soon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle. ...

Genre :Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Dugan Detective School Graduate (uncredited)

1951-04-03 6.3

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man. ...

Genre :Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction

Juror (uncredited)

1945-07-04 5.3

Bewitched

A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Plainclothesman (uncredited)

1949-03-21 6.1

The Undercover Man

Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Townsman at Recreation Center (uncredited)

1951-02-10 6.6

Storm Warning

A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister. ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

Cop (uncredited)

1941-11-21 6.965

Shadow of the Thin Man

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Military officer (uncredited)

1943-05-28 7

Back from the Front

The Stooges join the war effort by enlisting at Merchant Marines. While aboard, they have a brief run-in with (a secret German Nazi officer) Lt. Dungen (Vernon Dent), and then mistake a torpedo for a ...

Genre :Comedy, War

Waiter (uncredited)

1953-08-07 7.1

The Band Wagon

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop. ...

Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

Cabbie (uncredited)

1955-11-09 6.069

I Died a Thousand Times

After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel. ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller

Treasury Agent in Ship's Galley (uncredited)

1948-02-07 5.7

To the Ends of the Earth

A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring. ...

Genre :Thriller

Casino Patron (uncredited)

1952-11-19 5

The Iron Mistress

In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. J ...

Genre :History, Drama, Action, Western, Romance

Bartender (uncredited)

1949-08-11 4.95

Slattery's Hurricane

A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story unfolds in flashbacks as the pilot battles the st ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama

Barber (uncredited)

1953-03-26 5.9

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family. ...

Genre :Comedy, Family, Music, Romance

1954-11-05 4.9

Four Guns to the Border

A group of outlaws plan and execute a robbery in a small town. However, things go awry as the team attempt a getaway, when a couple of the locals attempting to follow them, are ambushed by marauding n ...

Genre :Western

Businessman (uncredited)

1957-08-30 4.765

Chicago Confidential

In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1945-08-03 6.6

Lady on a Train

While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

1947-09-01 6.9

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nu ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Waiter (uncredited)

1948-12-09 6.5

Whispering Smith

Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Mu ...

Genre :Western

Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

1955-10-09 6.352

Illegal

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Saloon Patron (uncredited)

1950-12-25 5.7

Frenchie

Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determine ...

Genre :Western

Detective (uncredited)

1948-12-22 5.8

The Dark Past

A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze. ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller, Drama

Football Game Spectator (uncredited)

1955-04-10 3.3

An Annapolis Story

Two brothers, both cadets at Annapolis, fall in love with the same girl. ...

Genre :Drama

Police Clerk (uncredited)

1944-12-14 7.2

Murder, My Sweet

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Senator in Play (uncredited)

1945-05-02 4.5

The Phantom of 42nd Street

A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor. ...

Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Sports Board Clerk (uncredited)

1950-05-16 6.3

The Jackie Robinson Story

Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues. ...

Genre :Drama, Family

One of Jim's Black Boys

1939-11-10 5.6

Allegheny Uprising

South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indian ...

Genre :Western, Action, Adventure, History

Wrestling Match Spectator

1939-06-01 4.2

The Girl from Mexico

Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aid ...

Genre :Comedy, Action, Romance, Music

Corporal

1939-08-18 6.3

Stanley and Livingstone

When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scott ...

Genre :Adventure, History

Baseball Spectator (uncredited)

1946-03-22 7

Mr. Noisy

This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team whi ...

Genre :Comedy

Man Tearing Down Poster (uncredited)

1949-11-16 6.963

All the King's Men

A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good ...

Genre :Drama

Reporter in Utility Office (uncredited)

1946-04-04 5.2

The Hoodlum Saint

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended b ...

Genre :Drama, Music

Trial Spectator (uncredited)

1950-02-21 5.4

The Secret Fury

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough e ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Townsman (uncredited)

1949-09-28 7.064

Pinky

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white w ...

Genre :Drama

Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)

1956-06-06 7.65

The Killing

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. B ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller

Building & Loan Customer (uncredited)

1946-12-20 8.3

It's a Wonderful Life

A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is ...

Genre :Drama, Family, Fantasy

Policeman (uncredited)

1946-03-18 6.2

Deadline at Dawn

A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout. ...

Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Romance

Restaurant Waiter (uncredited)

1947-12-15 7

The Judge Steps Out

A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Boxing Spectator (uncredited)

1952-06-06 5.538

Glory Alley

A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea. ...

Genre :Drama, Music

Court Officer (uncredited)

1949-09-02 7.6

White Heat

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Plant Worker (uncredited)

1950-01-06 6.2

Woman in Hiding

As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth ab ...

Genre :Thriller, Crime, Drama, Romance

Wounded Soldier (uncredited)

1940-01-27 5.5

The Fighting 69th

Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end. ...

Genre :Action, Drama, War

Detective (uncredited)

1950-05-12 6

Motor Patrol

A cop poses as a member of a stolen-car ring to capture the men responsible for the murder of his fiancee's brother. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Miner at Colliery (uncredited)

1940-01-12 6.3

The Invisible Man Returns

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness. ...

Genre :Horror, Science Fiction

Waiter at Lindy's (uncredited)

1952-06-13 6.3

Pat and Mike

Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants t ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

1946-08-03 4.3

Below the Deadline

A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his ...

Genre :Thriller, Crime

Court Stenographer (uncredited)

1946-08-21 7.7

Notorious

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one a ...

Genre :Thriller, Romance, Mystery

Waiter (uncredited)

1945-04-13 6.1

Two O'Clock Courage

A cab driver nearly hits a man with amnesia, then helps him unravel his past, only to discover he's a murder suspect as she falls for him. ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

1947-12-24 7.3

The Lady from Shanghai

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife. ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime, Thriller

Detective at Staff Meeting (uncredited)

1950-07-07 7.2

Where the Sidewalk Ends

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Reporter (uncredited)

1950-06-02 4.8

Rocketship X-M

Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations cause them to end up landing on Mars. On Mars, evide ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Adventure

Reporter at Sparring Session (uncredited)

1956-07-04 7.3

Somebody Up There Likes Me

The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ. ...

Genre :Drama

Café Patron

1940-03-01 5.5

The House Across the Bay

Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, tes ...

Genre :Drama

Bus Passenger (uncredited)

1940-12-27 6.5

Kitty Foyle

A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Sailor

1940-08-09 5.6

Captain Caution

When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Romance

Diner Patron (uncredited)

1940-04-23 6

Irene

Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

Man Singing at Inquirer Party (uncredited)

1941-04-17 8

Citizen Kane

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama

Guard

1939-05-26 4.9

Captain Fury

An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord. ...

Genre :Adventure, Action

Spectator at Dedication

1941-10-31 6.3

The Great Man's Lady

In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl bi ...

Genre :Western, Drama, Romance

Taxi Driver

1942-01-31 6

Brooklyn Orchid

Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort. ...

Genre :Comedy

Gestapo Officer (uncredited)

1942-10-18 5.5

The Devil with Hitler

Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Ad ...

Genre :Comedy

Man in Office (uncredited)

1941-12-13 5

Steel Against the Sky

Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy

Policeman (Uncredited)

1949-01-13 5.6

A Woman's Secret

Genre :Mystery, Drama

Park Avenue Doorman

1943-11-26 7.1

His Butler's Sister

Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Townsman (uncredited)

1943-04-09 6.186

Edge of Darkness

The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Mar ...

Genre :Drama, War

Troop Ship Survivor (Uncredited)

1943-09-09 5.5

So Proudly We Hail

During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries ...

Genre :War, Drama, Romance

Pub Patron (uncredited)

1946-01-28 6.4

Three Strangers

On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make ...

Genre :Thriller, Crime

Taxi Driver (Uncredited)

1944-10-05 6.2

Strange Affair

Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train statio ...

Genre :Mystery, Comedy

Court Clerk (uncredited)

1949-06-25 6.837

The Fountainhead

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Policeman (uncredited)

1950-07-15 7.2

The Great Jewel Robber

Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real- ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Plainclothesman (uncredited)

1937-04-10 6.5

Marked Woman

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Army Officer (uncredited)

1941-01-31 6.7

Buck Privates

Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauf ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, War

Man in Stockton Office (uncredited)

1946-02-22 5.1

Little Giant

Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerja ...

Genre :Comedy

Sports Commentator (uncredited)

1936-06-06 6.6

Bullets or Ballots

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Sponsor (uncredited)

1945-07-13 0

On Stage Everybody

Radio's miracle show is on the screen. ...

Genre :Music

Bartender (uncredited)

1952-03-07 6.8

Something to Live For

Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threate ...

Genre :Drama

Man in Audience (Uncredited)

1943-01-13 6.3

The Hard Way

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty. ...

Genre :Drama

Mr. Carroll (uncredited)

1946-12-08 5.9

Magnificent Doll

While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marr ...

Genre :Drama, History

Co-Worker (uncredited)

1954-12-18 0

So You Want to Know Your Relatives

Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet. ...

Genre :Comedy

Man in Hallway (uncredited)

1947-06-28 6.2

Riff-Raff

A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while he searches for a valuable map hidden in plain sight. ...

Genre :Drama, Adventure, Thriller

Cop Carrying Stretcher (Uncredited)

1949-05-10 6.93

The Window

An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, ...

Genre :Thriller, Crime

Washington Party Guest (uncredited)

1952-09-05 6.2

The Merry Widow

Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money an ...

Genre :Drama, Music

Police Stenotypist (uncredited)

1946-12-20 6.4

The Locket

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Man at Briefing (uncredited)

1957-10-15 5.6

The Land Unknown

Navy Commander Alan Roberts is assigned to lead an expedition to Little America in Antarctica to investigate reports of a mysterious warm water inland lake discovered a decade earlier. His helicopter ...

Genre :Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Man in Hotel Hallway (uncredited)

1953-04-27 6.4

Scared Stiff

A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encoun ...

Genre :Music, Comedy, Horror

Bartender (uncredited)

1949-10-08 5.6

Easy Living

A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him. ...

Genre :Drama

Audience Member (uncredited)

1957-05-01 4.9

The Buster Keaton Story

An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Joe - Saloon Waiter (uncredited)

1957-05-04 5.818

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region. ...

Genre :Western

Court Marshal Spectator (uncredited)

1948-05-20 5.9

Silver River

Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the wes ...

Genre :Western, Romance, Drama

Doctor (uncredited)

1954-03-11 5.667

Public Defender

The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 19 ...

Genre :Drama

Bartender (uncredited)

1955-09-20 6.023

Cheyenne

Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE i ...

Genre :Western, Drama

Museum Patron (uncredited)

1952-09-19 6.6

Adventures of Superman

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a syndicated TV adaptation of the beloved DC Comics superhero! You know the drill: When he isn't fighting for truth, justice and the American way, the man in tights don ...