Tom Powers

AKA: Thomas McCreery Powers

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1890-07-07

Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {76}

Mr. Dietrichson

1944-07-06 8.106

Double Indemnity

A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's life insurance. ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller

Metellus Cimber

1953-06-04 7.075

Julius Caesar

The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and for the republic. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Dr. Mangram

1947-02-15 6.4

Angel and the Badman

Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the ad ...

Genre :Western, Romance, Adventure, Action

Valcourt, Travel Agent

1952-11-12 6.4

The Steel Trap

Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

General Thayer

1950-06-27 5.86

Destination Moon

A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Adventure, Drama

Trenton

1947-07-16 6.6

They Won't Believe Me

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Jim, Mayor

1951-09-24 7.2

The Well

In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the ...

Genre :Drama

Harry Sheldon

1955-06-23 5.4

Double Jeopardy

Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her ...

Genre :Crime

Dist. Atty. Rossi

1955-02-15 5.8

New York Confidential

Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Captain George Iles

1948-09-01 6.1

Station West

When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers. ...

Genre :Western

Frank Tarleton

1952-10-11 6.2

Horizons West

Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being held for a murder, he is rescued from a lynch mob ...

Genre :Western

Donovan's Washington Advisor

1953-09-30 6.1

Donovan's Brain

A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality up ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller

Milt Miller

1953-08-14 5.7

I, the Jury

After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a limb to save his own life during combat. Along the wa ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime

Hy Nordick

1947-03-26 6.9

The Farmer's Daughter

After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Ralph Johnston

1948-01-15 6.3

I Love Trouble

A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Capt. Hendrickson

1946-04-16 6.7

The Blue Dahlia

Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer. ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery

Umpire Menafoe

1949-07-28 6.3

Scene of the Crime

A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities. ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama

Captain Howard Brown

1949-11-17 5.6

Chinatown at Midnight

A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a crooked antique dealer is hunted down by the police after his latest Chinatown robbery turns violent. ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery

Lt. Detective Bonnabel

1951-08-31 5.7

The Strip

Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Music

Floyd Sorelson

1946-08-09 5.1

The Last Crooked Mile

A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Hugh Mitchell

1947-05-01 0

For the Love of Rusty

Danny Mitchell, feeling that he has been misunderstood by his parents, takes his dog, Rusty, and leaves home, camping out near the trailer of veterinary Dr. Francis Xavier Ray. Gas escapes in the trai ...

Genre :Drama

Giuseppe

1912-04-05 0

The Illumination

Set in Biblical times, this tells the story of how Jesus affected the lives of two people: Joseph, a young Jewish man, and Maximums, a centurion in the Roman army. ...

Genre :Drama

Opera Attendee (uncredited)

1912-05-20 4

Fortunes of a Composer

A drama about a poor composer who is betrayed by his family and left alone. ...

Genre :Drama

Tom Swayne

1912-05-04 0

The Hieroglyphic

Peter Barton leaves his wealth to his niece, Mary, disinheriting his dissipated son, Edgar, who steals the will. Jack Smart, a rascal, an associate of Edgar's, keeps close watch upon him. At the point ...

Genre :Crime

Hugh Mitchell

1947-08-07 0

The Son of Rusty

The fourth film in Columbia's "Rusty" series is a lecture against gossiping. A young army veteran comes to town, and Danny and his friends learn that he had spent time in a military stockade for an in ...

Genre :Adventure, Family

Andy Randolph

1952-06-26 6.1

Flesh and Fury

Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight manager 'Pop' Richardson. For a time, Sonya has the upper hand with Paul, but ultimately a rival appe ...

Genre :Drama

The Mountain Boy

1911-11-14 0

The Girl and the Sheriff

A mountaineer, who has been shot by a pursuing sheriff, is concealed by a mountain girl in her cabin. When the sheriff arrives, she gives him whiskey, while secretly removing the bullets from his gun. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, Western, Comedy

Clumsy Copy Boy (uncredited)

1914-02-08 6.6

Gertie the Dinosaur

Although not the first feature-length animated film, as is sometimes thought, it was the first cartoon to feature a character with an appealing personality. The appearance of a true character distingu ...

Genre :Animation, Comedy

Chief Special Agent Wilcox

1949-07-22 0

Special Agent

A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express. ...

Genre :Thriller, Crime, Drama

Frank White

1953-07-04 6.1

The Last Posse

A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded. ...

Genre :Western

Jim Rogers

1955-01-19 5.2

The Americano

An American Rancher takes a small herd of Brahma bulls to Brazil where he has sold them for a small fortune. There, he finds himself in the middle of a range war......and in love. His concern, who are ...

Genre :Adventure, Western

1912-12-31 4.9

A Cure for Pokeritis

This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game. ...

Genre :Comedy

Alan Dale, the Old Man's Nephew

1913-04-29 5

A Window on Washington Park

From his apartment, where he lives a cheerless widower's life, overlooking Washington Park, Alan Dale sees a refined, but poverty-stricken old gentleman on one of the park benches. Calling his butler, ...

Genre :Drama

Mike Thurber

1945-06-29 0

The Chicago Kid

The story of Joe Ferrill, whose efforts to raise enough money so that his imprisoned father can live comfortably upon release come to naught when the elder Ferrill dies behind bars. Vowing revenge on ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Tom Balford

1950-10-06 6.6

Right Cross

A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager's daughter and her Mexican-American boxer. ...

Genre :Drama

Rogan

1948-07-09 7

Up in Central Park

A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City. ...

Genre :Music

John

1912-08-23 0

Saving an Audience

Four young college students find themselves with no money and a lot of debts. Each has received a peremptory refusal from home to send any more money to them and they are in despair. Suddenly Claude h ...

Genre :Comedy

Charley Fortune - Mabel's Sweetheart

1912-06-01 0

An Eventful Elopement

Emphatically opposed to Jack Moss, old Mr. McGillicuddy puts the ban on his marriage to his daughter Dolly. The old gentleman is adamant to the appeals of the young lovers and interposes his interfere ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Richard Johns, Howard's Son

1912-06-17 0

The Cylinder's Secret

Employed as secretary to Howard Abele, Marjorie Abbott attracts the attention of Sydney, her employer's son, who falls desperately in love with her. Mr. Abele is strenuously opposed to their marriage ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

George Gordon

1912-12-09 0

The Signal of Distress

Dolly Dillard jumps at the conclusion that George Gordon is playing her false, as he affectionately greets his sister at the train when she comes to pay him a visit. Dolly, who is not acquainted with ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

Sammy Bertram - Rebecca's Sweetheart

1912-05-13 0

Love in the Ghetto

Everybody's ordered out on a strike when Benjamin Cohen, proprietor of a sweat-shop, reduces the employees' wages ten per cent. Rebecca Barish, a young Jewess, and her father, reluctantly go out with ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Freddy Blick

1948-09-03 5.5

The Time of Your Life

Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Bellamer

1946-11-22 6.2

Two Years Before the Mast

In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage unde ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama

Atty. Gen. Frank Bush (uncredited)

1952-07-11 5.9

We're Not Married!

A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Howard

1949-11-03 6.3

Chicago Deadline

On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to kno ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Harvey Bogardus

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

General (uncredited)

1952-10-10 0

The WAC from Walla Walla

An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army. ...

Genre :Comedy

(archive footage)

2014-08-01 7.5

A Night at the Cinema in 1914

Cinema a century ago was a new, exciting and highly democratic form of entertainment. Picture houses nationwide offered a sociable, lively environment in which to relax and escape from the daily grind ...

Genre :Documentary

Commander Harry Harpe

1944-12-20 0

Practically Yours

In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Ins ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

1952-02-01 6.4

Phone Call from a Stranger

Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survivor. He then sets off on a journey to discover who these people were, but ultimately discovers the d ...

Genre :Drama

Husband

1914-03-31 6

Daisy Doodad's Dial

Daisy and her husband both go in for a face-pulling contest, but when the big day comes she is unable to attend the competition, and her husband wins instead. When the next opportunity comes around, s ...

Genre :Comedy

Jack Farnum - Madge's suitor

1912-03-29 0

The Haunted Rocker

An old rocking chair makes a story out of Old Boggs, his daughter Madge, and her boyfriend Jack. ...

Genre :Comedy

Sloan

1952-05-16 5.5

Denver and Rio Grande

Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotages the entire operation in the hopes that they ...

Genre :Western

Jones - the Ranch Owner

1912-01-20 4.5

A Girl of the West

A Western drama in which a gang steals John’s horse and then kidnaps Polly when she tries to warn the new buyer. ...

Genre :Western, Drama

Bill Martin

1950-01-11 5.8

The Nevadan

A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher. ...

Genre :Western

Sheriff

1953-07-13 4

Hannah Lee: An American Primitive

Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle is sent to investigate, saloon owner Hallie has to be a reluctant witness. ...

Genre :Western

Office Employee

1913-02-06 6

Stenographer Troubles

A comic one-act film featuring the character Bunny, which takes place in an office. ...

Genre :Comedy

Joe Holbert (uncredited)

1953-08-13 4.8

Devil's Canyon

An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Western

The Pal

1913-05-27 5.5

Cutey Plays Detective

Seeing Cutey play the part of a maid of all work at a college play, Alys Trevor seeks an introduction to him and they soon become good friends. She takes him with her to present him to her mother, who ...

Genre :Comedy

Warden

1948-10-20 5.2

Angel in Exile

An ex-convict on his way to make his fortune in a gold mine in Arizona has his trip interrupted when the residents of a small Mexican village believe him to be a sacred religious figure. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, Western

Owen Lee

1949-12-22 7.1

East Side, West Side

A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Ken Keeler

1950-11-01 3.5

Again Pioneers

Citizens of Fairview are outraged when they learn children from the "Patch", a squalid migrant camp on the outskirts of town, will soon be attending Fairview's school. ...

Genre :Drama, Family

Ed Mason

1948-12-27 5.6

Mexican Hayride

Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Lt. Governor Watson

1953-04-10 0

The Marksman

Mike Martin becomes a deputy marshal and takes on a gang of cattle rustlers. ...

Genre :Western

Henry Green

1955-02-01 5.8

Ten Wanted Men

When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power in the territory. ...

Genre :Western

Eddie Mendies

1952-05-31 0

Bal Tabarin

Story of a girl who witnesses murder of notorious international jewel thief. Afraid that the gang will attack her, she flees to Paris. ...

Genre :Drama, Music

Admiral Ryan

1951-05-31 6.5

Fighting Coast Guard

Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II. ...

Genre :War, Drama, Romance

Simon G. Stroud (uncredited)

1951-08-17 6.8

The Tall Target

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861. ...

Genre :Thriller, History, Mystery

Dan Carter

1946-06-05 7

Her Adventurous Night

A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail. ...

Genre :Comedy

Delaney

1952-03-31 6

The Fabulous Senorita

A Cuban businessman's daughter elopes with a professor instead of marrying a banker's son. ...

Genre :Comedy

Police Lieutenant (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

1913-03-14 0

Sisters All

Genre :Drama

Oscar Collins

1952-04-06 5

Jet Job

Joe Kovak is a test pilot for military-aircraft designer Sam Bentley, who thinks of Joe as a son. A competing plane company is seeking the same Army contract as Bentley, and offers a $500 bonus to the ...

Genre :Drama, Action

Gen. Vincent

1952-09-25 6.7

Four Star Playhouse

Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Railroad Official

1952-09-19 6.588

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 ...