Johnny Arthur

AKA: John Lennox Arthur Williams
0.1991

1883-05-18

Scottdale, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {72}

Mura Sakima

1966-01-01 6

Sakima and the Masked Marvel

Feature version of the 1943 serial "The Masked Marvel", q.v., edited for television syndication and 16mm rental only. ...
Genre :Action

1930-04-30 0

Paper Hanging with Johnny Arthur

A penny-pinching house-holder attempts to put up wallpaper without professional help. ...
Genre :

Montague

1940-11-09 5.8

Li'l Abner

Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from ...
Genre :Comedy

Johnny Goodlittle

1925-03-16 5.556

The Monster

A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum. ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Henry Sweet

1930-03-08 6

Down with Husbands

When their wives go on strike, two husbands form an organization they call the "Husbands Protective League". ...
Genre :Comedy

Leonard Travis

1933-12-14 3

Convention City

Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two sa ...
Genre :Comedy

Arthur Hood, Darla's father

1937-07-24 6.8

Night 'n' Gales

Because of a storm, the Gang has to stay overnight at Darla's house, and they drive her father crazy. ...
Genre :Comedy

Suki Yaki

1943-08-06 3.7

Nazty Nuisance

Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his Axis-stooges, Italy's Mussolini and Japan's Suki Yama, although he tried to avoid taking them, is on his way, via submarine, to a tropical country to negotiate a treat ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, War

Code Room Clerk (uncredited)

1935-10-25 4.313

Rendezvous

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies. ...
Genre :Comedy, War

Mr. Frankenstein (uncredited)

1936-04-24 6.2

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife. ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Johnny

1926-01-17 5.7

My Stars

Johnny tries hard to impress his girl, but she seems to be much more interested in movie stars. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Husband

1925-11-22 0

Cleaning Up

While his wife is away, the husband attempts to clean the house which ends up being a disaster. The house is completely destroyed by an overflowing bathtub, fire in the kitchen, feathers from the pill ...
Genre :Comedy

Johnny - The Tourist

1925-09-20 0

The Tourist

The Tourist is a 1925 Comedy short. ...
Genre :Comedy

Chief of the Secret Police

1936-05-27 5.9

The King Steps Out

Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in. ...
Genre :Music, Romance

Tommy Blake

1930-02-15 0

She Couldn't Say No

A night club singer falls for a gangster. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Ralph Twiller

1935-07-10 7

Doubting Thomas

A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage. ...
Genre :Comedy

P. T. Quinterfield Jr.

1937-11-19 3.667

Blossoms On Broadway

A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Kip Andrews

1936-11-04 5

Ellis Island

It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash. They are soon apprehended ...
Genre :Drama

Mura Sakima

1943-11-06 4.8

The Masked Marvel

A team of two-fisted insurance investigators (one of whom disguises himself as The Masked Marvel) endeavor to discover and thwart the loathsome saboteur Sakima. ...
Genre :Action

Antoine

1937-09-01 5.5

Make a Wish

While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip' ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Darla's father

1938-05-06 7

Feed 'em and Weep

It's Mr. Hood's birthday and he's looking forward to a quiet celebration with his family. But Darla's friends show up with living presents, eat his dinner, argue about Tarzan and Alfalfa croons a spec ...
Genre :Comedy

Freddie Goodlittle

1923-10-01 0

The Unknown Purple

Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his release from prison, Marchmont, disguised as Victor Cromport, uses the light to revenge himself against h ...
Genre :Mystery, Science Fiction

Professor Thad Crookshank

1937-05-02 0

It Happened Out West

Bank employee assigned to tell Arizona rancher her property is no good gets suspicious when her foreman agrees. Turns out his banker boss and the foreman know there's silver on that property. ...
Genre :Western

Poppolas

1937-12-20 4.9

Exiled to Shanghai

A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television. ...
Genre :Drama

Andy

1930-06-22 0

Cheer Up and Smile

When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with hi ...
Genre :Music

Homer Erskine

1934-12-01 5.35

The Ghost Walks

A ghostly and deadly dinner party, which at first turns out to be an elaborate staging of a new play for the benefit of a Broadway producer, becomes a true mystery when the players start to go missin ...
Genre :Mystery, Horror

Benny Kidd

1929-04-08 4.5

The Desert Song

French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevi ...
Genre :Music, Romance

Otto

1935-12-25 4.857

The Bride Comes Home

A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Aiken

1938-06-30 5.9

Danger on the Air

Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder. ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy, Drama

Horace Hayseed

1927-04-10 4.5

The Draw-Back

A dim witted, scrawny fellow from the country finds college full of bullies that trick him into various painful situations with the dean. His wife mistakes him for a prize athlete, and he's put on the ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Bassett

1931-10-01 6

Penrod and Sam

Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Carlos de Quiros

1924-04-14 5.4

Mademoiselle Midnight

Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by ...
Genre :Drama

Riley

1942-05-07 5.7

A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him. ...
Genre :Mystery

Oscar Freud

1936-09-12 4

Stage Struck

A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sales Clerk (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

Dental Professor

1936-01-25 0

An All American Toothache

Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on. ...
Genre :Comedy

Tootsies, Car Rental Man

1938-09-23 6

Fugitives for a Night

A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive. ...
Genre :Mystery, Romance

Simpkins

1930-12-21 6

Going Wild

Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks lik ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Mr. Wentworth

1936-01-11 5.6

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator. ...
Genre :Mystery

George Cowper

1929-06-29 0

The Gamblers

A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm’s assets. The son is caught investing money that doesn't belong to him and is indicted on a swindling charge. The plot gets spicy when the District Atto ...
Genre :Drama

Melton

1935-03-28 5.5

Traveling Saleslady

A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail To ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Kirby's Office Aide (uncredited)

1938-09-01 7.5

You Can't Take It with You

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the K ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Sandy Jenkins

1930-02-14 0

Personality

Directed by Victor Heerman. With Sally Starr, Johnny Arthur, Blanche Friderici, Frank Hammond. ...
Genre :

Hobart

1929-12-14 1

The Aviator

Brooks, a publisher and his publicist decide to boost the sales of a wartime book of flying experiences. They credit the book to popular author Robert Street, who is completely ignorant about aviation ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1930-06-11 0

Bridal Night

A couple is stranded in a supposedly haunted house. ...
Genre :

Billings

1934-09-01 6.4

Dames

A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show. ...
Genre :Romance, Music, Comedy

Willie Dent

1935-12-20 0

Too Tough to Kill

A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Crime

Mr. Fields

1936-01-18 6

Freshman Love

A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards. ...
Genre :Comedy

Jones, Photographer

1935-10-10 5

It's in the Air

Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and ...
Genre :Comedy

Timothy Willow (uncredited)

1940-03-22 6.5

Road to Singapore

Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Johnny Peppercorn

1926-07-03 0

Honest Injun

Johnny Arthur has been ordered to spend a year out west to toughen him up, so he and butler George Davis head out. The cowboys at the ranch don't like him, so Johnny and they play practical jokes on e ...
Genre :Western, Comedy

Mr. Daviani (as John Arthur)

1937-09-30 6.132

Something to Sing About

James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Doolittle

1942-03-26 0

Shepherd of the Ozarks

Aluminum magnate James J. Maloney, Sr. meets with government officials to discuss the war effort and the need to end price-fixing. After the meeting, Maloney receives word that his son Jimmy, a playbo ...
Genre :Comedy

Spanky's Father

1935-03-13 6.3

Anniversary Trouble

The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's money. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Larry Larabee

1941-11-03 0

Always Tomorrow: The Portrait of an American Business

Feature length promotional film presented by The Coca-Cola Company during World War II, focuses on a small town bottler as he looks back on his company's past and plans for an optimistic future. ...
Genre :

Stanley Glover

1928-12-01 6

On Trial

A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very inexperienced. ...
Genre :Drama

Johnny

1938-07-01 0

Halfway to Hollywood

Johnny writes a screenplay, then gets Tom and his wife to star with him in his amateur production. Their production is about their boss, who walks in on a screening of the finished product, puts "two ...
Genre :Comedy

Otho Peabody

1931-04-10 0

It's a Wise Child

In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant. ...
Genre :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

Apartment Manager (uncredited)

1947-04-17 6.981

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

The Hypochondriac

1926-03-14 0

Home Cured

Johnny is a hypochondriac and he spends all of his time fussing over his health instead of paying attention to his lovely wife. The wife and the family doctor pretend he is going to die -- and behave ...
Genre :Comedy

1927-11-13 0

Scared Silly

The guests at a dinner party in a mansion are spooked when a creepy "spirtualist" decides to stay for dinner. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self (archive footage)

1997-11-01 4.923

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, ...
Genre :History, Documentary

Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)

1929-11-21 5.5

The Show of Shows

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty ...
Genre :Music

Dr. Busby - Coroner

1937-01-08 5.7

Under Cover of Night

A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her. ...
Genre :Mystery, Action, Comedy

Newlywed

1937-05-21 4.538

Pick a Star

A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Davis

1934-06-08 5.3

Many Happy Returns

Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual Gracie Allen logic---while distracted Papa is try ...
Genre :Comedy

The Newlywed Husband

1929-07-13 1

A Hint to Brides

When a newly married couple go back to their apartment, they discover a robbery is in progress. ...
Genre :Comedy

Adam

1929-10-12 0

Adam's Eve

Johnny gets drunk at his bachelor party. He intends to "sleep it off" in the apartment of his best man, but mistakenly goes to the apartment of two women instead. ...
Genre :Comedy

Percy Deering

1929-07-06 0

Divorce Made Easy

When his aunt disapproves of his marriage to Mabel Deering and threatens to disinherit him, Percy elicits the aid of his buddy Billy Haskell, who is engaged to Eileen Stanley. It is arranged that Bill ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Second Dreamer (uncredited)

1940-11-10 5

Dreams

This entry in MGM's Passing Parade series looks at the meaning of dreams, including one by Abraham Lincoln that foretold his death. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Clarence Perkins

1934-12-12 3.75

Hell in the Heavens

During World War I, an American pilot vows to bring down the German ace responsible for his friend's death. ...
Genre :Drama