Paul McVey

AKA: Paul Mc Vey
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1898-03-17

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Crew Roles

Headin' North
Songs
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {91}

Pony Express Agent (uncredited)

1939-03-02 7.62

Stagecoach

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process. ...
Genre :Western, Adventure

Sam Grafton

1953-04-23 7.366

Shane

A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act. ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Detective Grady

1940-11-18 6.1

Phantom of Chinatown

In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His l ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Hobe Wheelock

1950-08-24 6.6

Force of Evil

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Second Mate

1936-12-25 6.7

Stowaway

Chin-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for America. Susan Parker, also on the ship, marries R ...
Genre :Music, Adventure, Family

Ed Moline

1942-08-11 4.3

The Living Ghost

A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie. ...
Genre :Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Dad (uncredited)

1941-10-12 6

The Officer and the Lady

A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Commissioner

1952-08-22 4.7

Bwana Devil

British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone on his cre ...
Genre :Action, Drama

General Hunter

1936-02-28 6.8

The Prisoner of Shark Island

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washin ...
Genre :Drama, History

Auctioneer's Assistant (uncredited)

1936-01-03 5.9

King of Burlesque

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who helps make Baxter a success. His head turned by sudde ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Night Official (uncredited)

1943-04-14 5.2

Flight for Freedom

A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission ...
Genre :Drama

US Attorney Johnson (uncredited)

1942-03-20 0

Butch Minds the Baby

Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one o ...
Genre :Comedy

Carl Crawford

1939-06-02 0

Inside Information

A rookie cop and his girlfriend's uncle, a police captain, disagree on the methods that should be used to catch criminals. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Dr. Trotter

1952-06-13 5.6

No Room for the Groom

A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding night arise from illness, her manipulative mother, and a house full of relatives. ...
Genre :Comedy

Uncle Adam

1943-11-05 5.4

The Mystery of the 13th Guest

A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Wayne - Death Row Inmate

1943-01-29 5.2

You Can't Beat the Law

A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. There he becomes pals with the prison's most hardened criminal, who plans a daring escape. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

First Mate Collins

1938-10-06 4.5

Meet the Girls

Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways. ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

Kilbourne

1943-12-17 5

Smart Guy

A gambler is about to stand trial for a crime he actually didn't commit. In order to brush up his "image", he adopts an orphaned newsboy. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Detective

1936-01-31 5

My Marriage

When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of socia ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Sweepstake Announcer (uncredited)

1935-09-13 6.4

The Gay Deception

A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Larsen

1938-10-01 0

The Night Hawk

Gangster Charlie McCormick despairs as his young brother Bobby lays near death and vows to break the quarantine of the ocean liner Pacific Queen in order to retrieve the iron lung Bobby needs. Meanwhi ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1942-03-13 8

Frisco Lil

Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love with lawyer Brewster. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

H.C. Walton

1938-07-15 6

Passport Husband

At the Club Habana, Henry Cabot, a bumbling busboy, is infatuated with the club's dancer, Conchita Montez. As Tiger Martin, the leader of a gang of thieves, gives Conchita a diamond bracelet, he is ar ...
Genre :Comedy

Hotel Manager

1938-06-03 6.5

Josette

Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Music

George Wallace (uncredited)

1938-06-02 5.5

One Wild Night

Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Jim Henderson

1939-11-06 4.7

Buried Alive

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blame ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

(uncredited)

1937-08-02 5.7

You Can't Have Everything

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to im ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Robert Powers (photograph)

1937-04-04 5

Midnight Taxi

A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Headwaiter (uncredited)

1943-06-23 3

Dixie

A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Hotel Clerk

1934-06-28 2.5

She Learned About Sailors

Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shanghai, he is of the opinion that he cannot support her in the States, so he writes her in a letter, that he will no ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Stage Manager

1939-10-13 5.1

Hollywood Cavalcade

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent star ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, History

G-Man

1936-07-24 5.3

36 Hours to Kill

Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Theatre Spectator (uncredited)

1935-11-01 4

Music Is Magic

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance

Shipboard Party Guest

1933-03-28 6

Below the Sea

A wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions. ...
Genre :Adventure

Townsman (Uncredited)

1934-12-30 5

Caravan

A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary. ...
Genre :Music

Capt. Mark Demooth

1939-11-10 6.5

Drums Along the Mohawk

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister s ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Policeman

1939-12-22 5.1

Slightly Honorable

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name. ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Assistant Commissioner

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

Signal man (uncredited)

1936-09-04 6.3

The Road to Glory

The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse M ...
Genre :Drama, War

Zarnoff

1940-09-19 6

King of the Royal Mounted

The Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile paralysis. When a country at war with Canada learns that Compound X also contains magnetic properties tha ...
Genre :Western, Action, Adventure

Mark, a Logger (uncredited)

1936-03-12 6

The Country Doctor

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets. ...
Genre :Drama

Banker (uncredited)

1958-12-31 7.1

The Last Hurrah

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, ...
Genre :Drama

Purser

1938-02-04 5

International Settlement

In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio). ...
Genre :Adventure

Army Doctor

1936-06-19 0

Sins of Man

Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI b ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Peterson (uncredited)

1935-12-06 7

Show Them No Mercy!

A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Kenneth North

1940-12-24 6.2

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Fire Chief

1935-07-17 0

The Daring Young Man

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). A ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Pendleton's Doctor

1940-05-02 6.7

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Detective Phillips

1940-06-07 6.3

The Saint Takes Over

The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Lesli ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Ship's Officer

1937-02-10 5.6

Time Out for Romance

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy

Johnny

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

Roosevelt's Secretary

1937-05-28 7.3

This Is My Affair

President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. ...
Genre :Romance, Crime, Drama

Alvord

1937-02-26 6

Love Is News

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every sales ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Gambling House Patron

1933-12-22 6

Mr. Skitch

After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Adventure

Guest

1936-08-01 4.5

To Mary - with Love

Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together. ...
Genre :Drama

Stage Manager

1940-05-24 6.1

Lillian Russell

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star. ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Baird

1939-03-20 5

Panama Patrol

A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal. ...
Genre :Mystery, Action, Drama

Copy Reader

1939-12-08 5

Barricade

In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance, War

Detective Lieutenant Jones (uncredited)

1940-08-16 6.5

Stranger on the Third Floor

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Doctor

1936-08-21 5.6

Sing, Baby, Sing

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose- ...
Genre :Music

Judge

1935-03-22 0

Life Begins at Forty

A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Meecham

1943-03-01 5.5

Keep 'Em Slugging

A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hi ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, War

Mr. Berkhardt

1937-03-05 6

Fair Warning

In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort. ...
Genre :Mystery

Postman

1952-12-24 7.4

Come Back, Little Sheba

A mismatched couple's marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Jeweler

1941-12-25 6.6

Remember the Day

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost. ...
Genre :War, Drama, Romance

Hugo Molte

1943-07-09 0

Spy Train

People on a train want what's in a Nazi spy bag, unaware it's a time bomb. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Doctor

1938-03-11 5.7

Walking Down Broadway

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse. ...
Genre :Drama

Steeplechase Announcer

1938-09-30 6

Straight, Place and Show

The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Gentleman on Boat (uncredited)

1941-10-31 10

New York Town

Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

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

Ship's Officer

1936-05-15 6

Human Cargo

Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Party Gest

1942-01-31 6

Brooklyn Orchid

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

Civil Defense Official

1941-12-31 6.3

Pacific Blackout

Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi ...
Genre :Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Drama

Alumni Committee Man

1941-09-11 0

Harmon of Michigan

A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a coll ...
Genre :Drama

Lester Pennock

1952-06-25 6.913

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sanders (uncredited)

1938-04-29 6.3

Four Men and a Prayer

The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name. ...
Genre :Adventure, Mystery

Speaker

1951-10-04 7

The Lady Pays Off

The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her debts, casino manager Matt Braddock asks her to tak ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Harold Masterson

1950-04-01 6.1

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Hensley

1938-05-30 0

Safety in Numbers

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit. ...
Genre :Comedy

Roscoe Hayes

1943-02-26 5

Silver Skates

The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Drama

Studio Executive

1943-10-08 5

Crazy House

Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management an ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Cousin Philip Franchi (Uncredited)

1941-11-28 6.6

The Corsican Brothers

Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Daniel (Uncredited)

1934-06-30 5.6

Baby Take a Bow

Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie ...
Genre :Drama, Family, Romance, Crime, Comedy

Minor Role (uncredited)

1941-08-20 5.7

Our Wife

A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success. ...
Genre :Comedy

Captain McBurn (uncredited)

1937-07-02 5

She Had to Eat

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music, Romance

Court Clerk (Uncredited)

1936-06-05 6.5

Private Number

Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Cop on Small Town Street (Uncredited)

1942-01-19 6.4

Fly By Night

Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held ...
Genre :Thriller, Comedy

Director

1934-07-06 8

Charlie Chan's Courage

Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing. ...
Genre :Mystery

Senator Jenkins

1934-05-04 4.8

Stand Up and Cheer!

President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon run ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Family

Attorney (uncredited)

1933-06-05 5.286

Cocktail Hour

Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined for matrimony and motherhood and decides she has ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Car Mechanic

1935-10-25 5

Bad Boy

An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance