Pat O'Brien

AKA: William Joseph Patrick O'Brien, Пэт О’Брайен
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1899-11-10

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Biography

Pat O'Brien (born William Joseph Patrick O'Brien) was an American stage, screen, radio, and television actor. He was a star during the first several years of his film career, the height of his popularity being during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {168}

Detective Mulligan

1959-03-19 8.089

Some Like It Hot

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Crime

Matt Brown

1932-08-15 6.8

American Madness

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an af ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Self (archive footage)

2005-01-01 8.3

Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say?

Documentary covering the Warner Bros. James Cagney /Pat O'Brien classic "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), hosted by film historian Rudy Behlmer. ...
Genre :Documentary

1930-10-01 0

My Mistake

A hired gunman inadvertently targets an undertaker as his next victim, who talks the killer into leaving the undertaker's business card whenever he does his next job. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dan Hammer

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

Delmas

1981-11-20 7

Ragtime

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Warden Walter Long

1940-02-17 6.8

Castle on the Hudson

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

George Steele

1946-09-06 5.638

Crack-Up

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot? ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery

Jerry Connolly

1938-11-26 7.5

Angels with Dirty Faces

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenemen ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Ben Lawson

1978-05-10 5.5

The End

Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional me ...
Genre :Comedy

Det. Vincent Ricks

1951-09-01 5.7

The People Against O'Hara

A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Hildy Johnson

1931-04-04 6.5

The Front Page

Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the cr ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance

Francis William 'Frank' / 'Cav' Cavanaugh

1943-10-31 5.3

The Iron Major

William 'Frank' Cavanaugh is a top football coach who gave up his career to enter WWI where he became a hero. After the war he went back to coaching where he ended up having one of the best winning pe ...
Genre :Drama

Gramp Fry

1948-11-26 6.2

The Boy with Green Hair

Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orph ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Family

Knute Rockne

1940-10-05 6.1

Knute Rockne All American

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne. ...
Genre :Drama

Jim Brogan

1933-10-13 6.472

Bombshell

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Chick Davis

1943-05-14 5.6

Bombardier

A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardier ...
Genre :Drama, War

Pat O’Brien

1970-03-06 3.2

The Phynx

A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA. ...
Genre :Comedy

James 'Jimmy' Regan

1951-08-23 6.8

Criminal Lawyer

A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case. ...
Genre :Crime

Martin Murphy

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

Joe Farley

1949-12-10 5.6

A Dangerous Profession

A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Martin Martin

1950-05-05 4.9

Johnny One-Eye

Johnny One-Eye was adapted from one of Damon Runyon's lesser-known stories. Martin Martin and Dane Cory were former partners in crime who have long since split up. When a new district attorney puts th ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Capt. Stephen Jameson

1937-05-24 6.5

San Quentin

Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from h ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Sam Gallagher

1944-07-30 6.8

Secret Command

Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jeff still resents Sam for abandoning the family year ...
Genre :Action, War, Drama

Detective Butch Saunders

1933-09-16 5.556

Bureau of Missing Persons

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work... ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Father Duffy

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

Captain Oren Hayes

1969-07-06 5.6

The Over the Hill Gang

A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a drunken judge and a trigger-happy sheriff. ...
Genre :Western, Comedy, TV Movie

John Gorman

1958-12-31 7.167

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

Biff Martin

1934-07-21 5.9

Here Comes the Navy

A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism. ...
Genre :War, Drama

"Scrapper" Thornhhill

1934-12-01 5.6

Flirtation Walk

A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual ...
Genre :Music, Romance

Jake L. Lee

1936-01-16 5.778

Ceiling Zero

War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this he changes flights with Texas. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

Steve Case

1940-05-18 6.55

Torrid Zone

A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance

James Aloysius 'Jim' / 'Jimmy' O'Malley

1937-02-13 6.7

The Great O'Malley

His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien). ...
Genre :Drama

Father O'Hara

1950-11-09 5.6

The Fireball

Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambition. ...
Genre :Drama

Dave Logan

1936-08-11 5.6

China Clipper

An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China. ...
Genre :Drama

Jimmy Doyle

1932-10-25 6.4

Virtue

A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver, but other matters keep getting in their way, including financial problems and a murder. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Romance

Samuel J. 'Sam' Doyle

1942-07-09 6

Flight Lieutenant

A disgraced pilot determines to regain the respect of both his son, now a test pilot for the Army, and the men he once flew with. ...
Genre :Drama

Bart Crosbie

1957-05-01 5.2

Kill Me Tomorrow

A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Dan McCorn

1942-05-08 5.5

Broadway

Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Barney Slaney

1933-01-12 1

Laughter in Hell

In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Self

1981-12-01 10

James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy

During the filming of Ragtime, the 81-year old Cagney talks about his career. Cagney tells us about becoming a dancer and meeting his wife, his route from Broadway to Hollywood, the emergence of his t ...
Genre :Documentary

Duke Talbot

1932-11-03 5

Air Mail

A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Chief Michael 'Mike' Mallory

1942-10-30 5.6

The Navy Comes Through

A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis. ...
Genre :War, Drama

William Jennings 'Billy / 'Square Shooting Murph' Murphy

1939-05-23 6

The Kid from Kokomo

Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbi ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Rush Blake

1934-05-26 6

Twenty Million Sweethearts

Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornell, who has lost her own radio show, helps Buddy. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

John Webb

1939-12-22 4.7

Slightly Honorable

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

J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson

1938-08-27 6.5

Boy Meets Girl

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby become ...
Genre :Comedy

Andy Terrell

1933-04-15 4.3

The World Gone Mad

A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Mystery, Drama

Sam Bradshaw

1932-02-12 6

The Final Edition

A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Charlie Lang

1934-03-08 6.2

Gambling Lady

A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Ritzy

1934-06-06 3.7

The Personality Kid

An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Romance

Steve Burke

1940-04-20 6.2

'Til We Meet Again

Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Himself (uncredited)

1938-12-24 5.9

Swingtime in the Movies

In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Ian 'Hap' O'Connor

1940-08-24 7

Flowing Gold

In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

Roy Chadwick

1938-07-09 4.5

Cowboy from Brooklyn

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot. ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Conroy (uncredited)

1931-03-21 5.7

Honor Among Lovers

Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Steve Porter

1931-11-21 6.1

Consolation Marriage

A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Sport Wardell

1931-11-14 4.8

Flying High

An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Music

Matt Kelly

1932-01-30 5.1

Hell's House

A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss. ...
Genre :Drama

Waddell

1932-04-01 7

Scandal for Sale

A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million. ...
Genre :Drama

Frank Deane

1932-05-06 6

The Strange Case of Clara Deane

A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a criminal... ...
Genre :Drama

Matt Brennan

1933-04-01 0

Destination Unknown

A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind. ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Butch Rogers

1937-11-27 4.7

Submarine D-1

Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer. At sea and underwater, however, our two heroes are inseparable. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Coach Gore

1933-11-04 4.125

College Coach

Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college footba ...
Genre :Drama

Michael J. Malone

1945-04-12 6.3

Having Wonderful Crime

Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Ernest 'Texas' Conway

1954-05-15 4.8

Jubilee Trail

A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with child. She continues on hoping to find a man and a ho ...
Genre :Western

Red Blayd

1937-06-24 6.3

Slim

Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory trade of putting up transmission lines. They both love their work, and the same girl, who hates their dan ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Lee Laird

1936-07-24 5.8

Public Enemy's Wife

Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal act ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Frank Wallace

1954-07-23 5

Ring of Fear

Mystery writer Mickey Spillane tries to help Clyde Beatty deal with a plot to sabotage his circus. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Click Wiley

1935-09-07 6.3

Page Miss Glory

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Hallelujah Harry

1972-02-20 2.667

The Adventures of Nick Carter

Detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's wife. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Mystery, Thriller

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1983-02-25 6.5

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look a ...
Genre :Documentary, Comedy

John Quinn

1938-09-23 6.2

Garden of the Moon

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is th ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Pat O'Hara

1935-07-31 7.6

The Irish in Us

A boxer and his policeman brother feud over a police captain's daughter. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Narrator

1962-01-01 0

Babe Ruth Story: That Ever Livin' Babe

Documentary on the life and career of Babe Ruth. ...
Genre :Documentary, History

Dr. William P. Kennicott

1936-04-25 4.7

I Married a Doctor

City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople. ...
Genre :Drama

Stephen Chase

1935-06-08 7.3

Oil for the Lamps of China

An American oil company representative risks sacrificing his marriage for his career in the rural lands of China. ...
Genre :Drama

Maj. Steve Lockhart

1944-07-11 6.8

Marine Raiders

A Marine major looks out for his captain on Guadalcanal and in Australia. ...
Genre :Romance, War, Drama, Action

Larry MacArthur

1935-05-25 6.3

In Caliente

At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Al McGillevray

1935-11-23 5.2

Stars Over Broadway

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Thomas "Breezy" Elliott

1939-01-21 6

Off the Record

After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison. ...
Genre :Drama

Michael O'Flaherty 'Speed' McBride

1945-11-16 5.1

Man Alive

A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend. ...
Genre :Comedy

Joe Greer

1939-08-05 5

Indianapolis Speedway

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Romance

Bill Landin

1938-04-23 5.7

Women Are Like That

Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he w ...
Genre :Drama

Terry Riley

1934-02-24 6

I've Got Your Number

Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes. ...
Genre :Romance, Crime, Comedy

Mr. Caboose

1980-09-30 7

Scout's Honor

Gary Coleman stars as little Joey Seymour, a clever but lonely orphan shuffled from one foster home to the next, who is also determined to be the best Cub Scout ever. Pearl Bartlett (Katherine Helmond ...
Genre :Family, Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

"Spot Cash" Cutler

1934-10-20 4.5

I Sell Anything

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned? ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Father Peter J. Dunne

1948-05-12 6

Fighting Father Dunne

A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Judge Murcott

1965-07-07 6.5

Town Tamer

A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless ...
Genre :Western, Action

Self (archive footage)

2013-01-29 5.5

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history . You'll see stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, ...
Genre :Comedy

Mike Farrough

1940-05-20 6

Escape to Glory

The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by placing the characters on a British merchant ship on t ...
Genre :Drama

Bill Morgan

1937-08-27 5.3

Back in Circulation

Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'T ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Pat O'Brien

1938-05-28 6.6

Out Where the Stars Begin

When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director, her understudy steps in and a star is born. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Sgt. McGll

1972-01-30 8

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finally released from the camp, and is discharged from t ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Police Detective (uncredited)

1930-11-27 6.25

Compliments of the Season

On Christmas Eve, a former thief, recently released from prison, stops a forlorn, destitute, despairing young woman from committing suicide. She's from the country and hasn't been able to find her boy ...
Genre :Drama

Gus Linden

1956-01-01 6

Inside Detroit

Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vicker, so he can put his old rackets back into the au ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Lieut. Brannigan

1935-02-09 6.4

Devil Dogs of the Air

Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory. ...
Genre :Romance, Action, Comedy, Drama

Peter Shea

1931-09-12 3

Personal Maid

Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a personal maid for the wealthy, Gary family. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Tim Reardon

1942-03-26 2.5

Two Yanks in Trinidad

The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get hi ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy

Self

1936-12-30 0

Breakdowns of 1936

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936. ...
Genre :Documentary, Comedy

Lt. Cmdr. Hale

1952-02-28 4.8

Okinawa

On the eve of their return to the states, the crew of the U.S.S. Blake is unpleasantly surprised when their new captain, Lt. Commander Hale, announces that they've been reassigned to the upcoming inva ...
Genre :War, Action, Drama

Patrick Nevil

1946-03-20 0

Perilous Holiday

A tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes Stuart, who is working on a story to expose racke ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1941-11-14 7

Breakdowns of 1941

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

1947-12-31 6.3

Blow-Ups of 1947

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947. ...
Genre :Documentary, Comedy

Self/Host

1930-08-30 0

The Voice of Hollywood

The Voice of Hollywood hosted by Pat O'Brien. Features Joan Blondell, Robert Montgomery, Elissa Landi, Warner Baxter, and the coronation of Mary Pickford as "Queen of the Arts." It is not currently cl ...
Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2008-05-15 8.5

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion ...
Genre :Documentary

Marty

1931-03-26 0

Crimes Square

When a crook decides to go straight, his jealous cast off moll exposes him to the police. ...
Genre :

Himself (uncredited)

1935-02-02 5.2

A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio

This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the casting office, then see Busby Berkeley and choreograph ...
Genre :Documentary

Ben Lear

1932-09-28 5.5

Flaming Gold

Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Pat O'Brien (archive footage) (uncredited)

1938-12-31 4.7

Breakdowns of 1938

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938. ...
Genre :Documentary, Comedy

Self

1935-12-01 5

Things You Never See on the Screen

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935. ...
Genre :Documentary, Comedy

Himself (uncredited)

1935-12-31 5.5

A Dream Comes True

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935). ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1937-12-31 6

Breakdowns of 1937

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937. ...
Genre :Documentary, Comedy

Self

1939-12-31 7

Breakdowns of 1939

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939. ...
Genre :Documentary, Comedy

Self

1940-12-31 4

Breakdowns of 1940

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940. ...
Genre :Documentary, Comedy

Chinese Restaurateur (uncredited)

1962-03-29 5.8

The Road to Hong Kong

When Chester accidentally memorises and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, he and Harry are thrust into international intrigue, trying to stay alive ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure, Music, Science Fiction

Dan O'Farrell

1939-12-01 0

The Night of Nights

A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented. ...
Genre :Drama

Self

1936-09-11 6

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many st ...
Genre :Documentary

President of the Senate

1977-04-16 6.3

Billy Jack Goes to Washington

After a senator suddenly dies after completing (and sealing) an investigation into the nuclear power industry, the remaining senator and the state governor must decide on a person who will play along ...
Genre :Drama

Jimmy, the morgue attendant

1976-05-08 7

Kiss Me... Kill Me

A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murdered a young schoolteacher. ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, TV Movie

Jimmy Reed

1932-06-25 0

Hollywood Speaks

The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainment business. ...
Genre :Drama

Himself

1934-01-01 0

Screen Snapshots No. 11

Long before the release of the cult film Dracula vs. Frankenstein, the original stars of Dracula and Frankenstein met face to face--for a game of chess. The scene is from an early 1934 episode of Col ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1959-05-29 9

I Captured the King of the Leprechauns

Behind the scenes of Darby O'Gill and the Little People. ...
Genre :Family, TV Movie, Documentary

Emory

1973-05-04 0

Amanda Fallon

A dedicated family doctor tries to help a pregnant teen-ager. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Abner Therman

1975-01-19 0

The Sky's the Limit

A family is thrown into turmoil when a grandson convinces his grandfather to teach him to fly. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, TV Movie

Self (archive footage)

1934-08-01 0

Studio Highlights

A short promotional film about Ruby Keeler and her upcoming film "Flirtation Walk." It provides a brief look at her career on Broadway, early films, and personal life away from the studio before showi ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1999-12-31 5.6

Dill Scallion

School bus driver Dill Scallion dreams of becoming a famous country music singer. He sings from his heart and makes up his own dance, the 'Scallion Shuffle'. But fame is fickle and Dill falls from the ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Sheriff Kyle Bickford

1957-03-07 0

Invitation to a Gunfighter

A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they hande ...
Genre :Western, TV Movie

1978-09-18 7.6

WKRP in Cincinnati

When a Cincinnati radio station switches from sedate music to top-40 rock 'n' roll, its staff of oddball characters is forced to switch gears quickly. New programming director Andy Travis brings in a ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

1950-09-10 6.8

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, includin ...
Genre :Comedy

Lt. John Curwood

1963-10-10 5.3

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Genre :Mystery, Drama

Self

1962-10-01 6.2

The Merv Griffin Show

Genre :Talk

1974-01-15 7.628

Happy Days

In 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova. ...
Genre :Comedy

1971-01-05 6.968

Alias Smith and Jones

Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaw ...
Genre :Western, Crime

1948-10-17 0

Ford Theatre

Ford Theatre, spelled Ford Theater for the radio version and known as Ford Television Theatre for the TV version, was a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940 ...
Genre :Drama

Major Irish

1953-02-01 6.4

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Rel ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Lt. V. Keever

1952-10-02 7.3

The Ford Television Theatre

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast. ...
Genre :Drama

1962-10-03 5.7

Going My Way

Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

J. Jimerson Jones

1962-09-19 6.4

The Virginian

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more b ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Tim Larkin

1950-10-02 6.3

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1970-02-17 7.1

McCloud

Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1951-10-05 7.2

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The t ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Self

1952-10-01 6.4

This Is Your Life

This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and procee ...
Genre :Documentary

1972-09-15 7

Banyon

The adventures of 1930's Los Angeles private eye Miles Banyon. ...
Genre :Drama

Police Lieutenant Moore

1954-10-07 3.3

Climax!

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

1963-10-04 5.7

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Talk

1965-01-24 6.647

Branded

Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time period, and starred Chuck Connors as Jason McC ...
Genre :Western

1960-10-14 0

Harrigan and Son

Harrigan and Son is an ABC sitcom about a father-and-son team of lawyers, played by Pat O'Brien and Roger Perry as Jim Harrigan, Sr., and Jim, Jr. In supporting roles, as secretaries, are Georgine Dar ...
Genre :

1956-04-08 6.3

Telephone Time

Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hos ...
Genre :Drama

Self - Co-Host

1961-12-11 5.4

The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went in ...
Genre :Comedy, Talk

Doc Bigelow

1962-09-19 6.4

The Virginian

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more b ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Captain Barnaby

1950-10-02 6.3

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

John Wentworth

1951-10-05 7.2

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The t ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Joe Crandall

1950-10-02 6.3

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

George Morrell

1950-10-02 6.3

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Charley Hackett

1950-10-02 6.3

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Eddie Gorman

1950-10-02 6.3

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Self

1962-10-01 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carso ...
Genre :Talk

Self

1948-06-20 6.8

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was ...
Genre :Comedy, Talk

Inspector Dan Zarilla

1963-10-10 5.3

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Genre :Mystery, Drama

Mike Waterson

1948-11-07 5

Studio One

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the an ...
Genre :Drama

1955-04-09 6.2

Science Fiction Theatre

Science Fiction Theatre is an American science fiction anthology series that aired in syndication from April 1955 to April 1957. It was produced by Ivan Tors and Maurice Ziv. ...
Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Mike Breen

1960-10-22 0

The Best of the Post

Anthology. Dramas based on short stories in the "Saturday Evening Post". ...
Genre :

Ed Talbot

1954-10-07 3.3

Climax!

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Police Lieutenant

1954-10-07 3.3

Climax!

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Self

1950-02-02 6.9

What's My Line?

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions. ...
Genre :Family, Comedy

Self

1961-12-11 5.4

The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went in ...
Genre :Comedy, Talk

Self

1958-10-08 4.7

Kraft Music Hall

Kraft Music Hall is an umbrella title for several television series aired by NBC in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s in the musical variety genre, sponsored by Kraft Foods, the producers ...
Genre :