Benny Baker

AKA: Ben Baker, Benjamin Michael Zifkin
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1907-05-05

Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {70}

Self

1969-12-06 0

Ann-Margret: From Hollywood with Love

Ann-Margret starts her journey to Hollywood from the countryside, traversing the Freeway until she gets to Hollywood. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, TV Movie

Herman

1948-02-07 0

My Girl Tisa

1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in Ame ...
Genre :Drama

William

1941-12-04 6

Sing for Your Supper

Evelyn Palmer, a débutante society girl who also is a property landlord, becomes interested in the plight of one of her tenants, a struggling band-leader, to the extent she becomes a hostess in a danc ...
Genre :Comedy

Al Vogel

1937-07-09 0

Wild Money

A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping conspiracy. He quickly phones the paper and they order ...
Genre :Comedy

'Dutch' Schultz

1936-11-30 6

Rose Bowl

Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-footb ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Tubby

1952-05-23 5.575

Loan Shark

A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharkers, a union leader and the factory owner try to rec ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Sailor

1937-09-17 6.6

Double or Nothing

A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount -- without dishonesty-- will win a cool million. Hindering th ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Blackie

1934-09-21 5.7

Belle of the Nineties

Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Jim Traft

1936-02-14 5

Drift Fence

Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis, who, at a rodeo, meets city dweller Jim Traft, who has come west to erect a fe ...
Genre :Action, Western, Romance

Lou

1964-06-01 5.2

For Those Who Think Young

A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Self

1947-01-31 0

Radio, Take It Away

Genre :

Cabbie

1948-12-08 5

Homicide for Three

While on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth (Warren Douglas) takes his wife, Iris (Audrey Long), to a Los Angeles hotel but is turned away. When mysterious Colette (Steph ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance

Butterball

1944-02-17 6

Up in Arms

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Corky, bank robber in black

1952-09-21 4

Feudin' Fools

Sach learns that he has inherited a farm in rural hillbilly country, and when he and the Boys arrive there, they find themselves mixed up with a hillbilly clan named Smith who'll shoot anybody named J ...
Genre :Comedy

Horace Dryden

1937-03-12 5

The Crime Nobody Saw

Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment. ...
Genre :Mystery

Phil Doane

1936-09-24 5.1

Murder with Pictures

Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Herman

1935-09-20 5.545

The Big Broadcast of 1936

Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of George and Gracie, who've just invented a televis ...
Genre :Music

Andy

1936-04-10 5.5

Panic on the Air

A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that gangsters are trying to find a hidden fortune, they use the radio show to foil the plan. ...
Genre :Drama

Sparrow

1936-12-18 0

Mind Your Own Business

Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts. When Orville's editor, Crane, orders him to ...
Genre :Comedy

'Cuffie' Lewis

1935-06-21 5.2

College Scandal

Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Julie attraction from the make students drops a bit when two of her admirers are found mu ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Crime

Scotty

1938-04-01 6

Tip-Off Girls

A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance

Mr. McGinty

1986-05-15 5

Monster in the Closet

After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band together to uncover the mystery but not without i ...
Genre :Horror, Comedy

Jack Wells

1949-01-05 0

Rose of the Yukon

Major Geoffrey Barnett, U. S. Army Intelligence Service, is sent to Alaska, to apprehend a deserter, Tom Clark, who was presumed to be dead as a member of a small force wiped out on Attu in World War ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Snapper Dugan

1934-06-16 6

The Hell Cat

Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge , she disguises herself and ...
Genre :Drama

Tammany

1935-11-13 6.111

Thanks a Million

A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be replaced in doing his campaign speech by the troupe croo ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Cab Driver

1968-01-03 3.4

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz

A beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom. ...
Genre :Comedy

Frank Jordan

1973-02-02 7.6

Jory

Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive's leader and a likable cowhand take the boy under their wing, and find that tragedy has taugh ...
Genre :Western

Benny Baker, Second Suitor

1934-07-14 0

Three Chumps Ahead

Thelma rushes into the apartment she shares with Patsy, excited because she's fallen in love with Archie, a rich man with yachts and a British accent. Patsy isn't impressed and less so when Archie com ...
Genre :Comedy

Building Repairman

1934-06-23 0

I'll Be Suing You

Patsy is coerced into faking a broken leg in order to win an insurance settlement after an automobile accident. ...
Genre :Comedy

Chief Evans (uncredited)

1939-09-29 6.2

Dancing Co-Ed

After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Tomasso

1936-03-06 7

Give Us This Night

After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the polic ...
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Sidney

1939-07-11 5.667

She Married a Cop

This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he sings at the annual Policeman's Ball. For a long time, they have been looki ...
Genre :Comedy

Egbert

1937-12-03 5.5

Love on Toast

The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr. Manhattan chosen is a singing soda jerk, who doesn't ...
Genre :Comedy

Benny Baker

1943-06-24 5.853

Stage Door Canteen

A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The sol ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance, War

Cadet Dick Mycroft

1938-08-04 0

Touchdown, Army

Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Stuffy Miller

1937-11-04 3

Hold 'Em Navy

Two football players fight over the same girl. ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Gluckschen

1984-11-19 5

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency

Arthur is asked to pick up a bird for Thanksgiving dinner, so he brings home a 266-pound chicken named Henrietta. The family welcome her with open arms, but the neighbors are not so sure and then Henr ...
Genre :TV Movie, Fantasy, Family

Cab Driver

1969-09-14 3.5

Some Kind of a Nut

A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard. ...
Genre :Comedy

Flip

1937-02-05 0

Champagne Waltz

In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitt ...
Genre :Comedy

Frankie Frannis

1957-05-17 6

Public Pigeon No. 1

Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI. ...
Genre :Comedy

Pyle

1983-02-18 4.638

The Sting II

Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of t ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Pvt. Charles Klassen

1952-11-20 5.7

Thunderbirds

An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II. ...
Genre :War, Romance, Adventure, Drama

Barney

1936-09-03 4.5

Lady Be Careful

Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorou ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Hill-Billy Boy

1936-01-09 0

Rose of the Rancho

It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of California were the descendants of the Dons who had ...
Genre :Music, Romance, Western

(uncredited)

1934-12-07 5

A Wicked Woman

A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her child ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Nephew

1934-11-24 0

You Bring the Ducks

Irvin takes the governor on a duck hunting trip in the hopes of securing a plumb job, but his annoying nephew has other plans. ...
Genre :Comedy

Monk Gordon

1940-03-29 5

The Farmer's Daughter

Broadway producer Nicksie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of t ...
Genre :Comedy

Zimmer

1935-08-23 0

Annapolis Farewell

Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in ...
Genre :Drama

Maxie Schwartz

1937-08-06 0

Blonde Trouble

Fred Stevens is an aspiring songwriter from Schenectady who journeys to New York City, hoping to make a name for himself. On the train he meets dental assistant Edna Baker, and the two embark upon a f ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Augie Pollack

1948-06-27 4.75

Jinx Money

A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of b ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Telecki (uncredited)

1949-12-31 6.5

The Inspector General

An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Aloysius Duff

1949-03-17 0

Manhattan Angel

Gloria Cole and Eddie Swenson are working to keep an old fire house, now being used as a youth center, from being razed to make room for a new skyscraper in Manhattan. ...
Genre :Comedy

Male Student

1934-01-31 3

School for Romance

Count Romansky is a newspaper columnist who specializes in romance issues. When he loses his job, he opens up a school where he instructs his pretty pupils on affairs of the heart. ...
Genre :Music

Pop

1984-01-06 3

The Jerk, Too

Navin Johnson heads to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of his pen pal, Marie. On the way, he runs across a gang of hobos whose leader, Diesel, takes him to Las Vegas after learning of his skills at ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Bill Collector (uncredited)

1952-05-02 4.7

Young Man with Ideas

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Lt. Schwartz

1966-06-08 5.1

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!

Tom Meade mistakenly dials the gorgeous European film star Didi at her Oregon hotel. Didi, who has escaped Hollywood to avoid being typecast as a bombshell, takes up Meade's offer to hide away at his ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Haywood Holbrook

1969-10-15 6.4

Paint Your Wagon

A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning the ...
Genre :Comedy, Western, Music

Looie

1947-09-20 6

Joe Palooka in the Knockout

The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk his way out of a traffic citation, and the story le ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Fight Secretary

1949-03-06 6

Joe Palooka in the Big Fight

Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his innocence. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Reporter Outside Jail

1934-10-20 0

The Ballad of Paducah Jail

Kentucky humorist Irvin S. Cobb hunts for an escaped felon, but the tables are turned when the criminal nabs him instead. ...
Genre :Comedy

Piano Player

1935-09-09 5

Wanderer of the Wasteland

Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands and joins an outlaw gang who prey on gold prospectors ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Romance, Western

Benny

1935-12-12 0

Millions in the Air

The daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it, so she enters an amateur contest on his radio program under an assumed name. ...
Genre :Comedy

Harry

1984-12-15 5.6

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Retired cop Mike Halligan decides to show his grandson, who has never seen snow before, what a real white Christmas in New York is like. But a sudden fatal heart attack derails those plans, and Hallig ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Fantasy

Barber

1957-10-04 6.922

Leave It to Beaver

Leave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive and often naïve boy named Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburba ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

1983-04-03 5.5

Goodnight, Beantown

Matt Cassidy and Jennifer Barnes are reluctantly paired to anchor the news at a fictional TV station in Boston, Massachusetts, due to the sudden ratings drop. ...
Genre :Comedy

Jerry Ormond

1957-09-21 7.719

Perry Mason

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Crime

Al - Bartender

1955-10-02 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Crime

Jack Daniels

1977-09-24 6.253

The Love Boat

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Mike Brill

1957-09-22 6.782

Maverick

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Danny Fogarty

1973-10-24 7.028

Kojak

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City. ...
Genre :Crime, Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery