Dick Wessel

AKA: Dick Wassel, Richard M. Wessel , Richard Wessel
0.5643

1913-04-20

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {184}

Lineman at Cafe Counter (uncredited)

1941-08-09 6.7

Manpower

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry bet ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Bus Driver (uncredited)

1947-01-09 4.8

Blondie's Big Moment

Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood has mixed emotions about his wife's theatrical aspir ...
Genre :Comedy

Mailman

1950-04-13 5.3

Beware of Blondie

Mr. Dithers leaves Dagwood in charge of the office for a short period. Poor old Dagwood manages to gum things up when he falls for a confidence scam engineered by the duplicitous Toby Clifton. He ev ...
Genre :Comedy

Luke

1946-09-12 0

Pardon My Terror

Private detectives Gus and Dick take a murder case where nearly everyone is trying to kill them. ...
Genre :Comedy

Desk Sergeant

1948-08-11 6.869

Pitfall

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Mr. McGonagle

1948-09-09 0

Billie Gets Her Man

Billie has the mistaken impression that her only daughter is pregnant and must rush to the hospital. At the same time, her old boyfriend, now wealthy, returns to make amends with her. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sid, Drunk Cowboy

1951-04-06 5.7

The Scarf

A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Deputy (uncredited)

1952-03-06 6.522

Rancho Notorious

A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price. ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Henchman Otis

1942-12-16 0

The Traitor Within

In this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who constantly brags how he, not the town mayor, was responsible for catching a regiment of Germans during WW ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

Sailor Kovarsky (uncredited)

1949-12-08 7

On the Town

Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

Mailman (uncredited)

1950-03-09 6.3

Blondie's Hero

Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of problems which lead to numerous conflicts. ...
Genre :Comedy

Delivery man

1942-06-21 5.667

Friendly Enemies

During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has taken the US side against Germany regarding the war, ...
Genre :Drama

Harry 'Cueball' Lake

1946-11-22 5.2

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Oscar "Red" McGooney

1940-12-05 4.4

The Border Legion

Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force h ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Western

Fighter at Gym (uncredited)

1938-08-06 6.5

The Crowd Roars

A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living. ...
Genre :Drama, Action

Man Who Undresses (uncredited)

1950-12-11 5.3

Watch the Birdie

A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Romance

Jim Hale (uncredited)

1947-12-17 6.2

High Wall

Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lo ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

1947-11-20 0

Wife to Spare

Andy tries to fix a dilemma between a gold digging blonde and his brother-in-law who's smitten with her. This causes problems for Andy's wife. ...
Genre :Comedy

Football player

1939-07-29 5.5

The Cowboy Quarterback

Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with g ...
Genre :Comedy

Dutchman

1952-12-24 5.867

Blackbeard, the Pirate

Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard. ...
Genre :Adventure

Drugstore Lunch Counterman (uncredited)

1939-03-17 4.5

An Hour for Lunch

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sgt. Mullins

1950-01-05 5.7

Punchy Cowpunchers

It is the old west and the Dillon clan are making life miserable for a small Western town. Sweetheart Nell (Christine McIntyre) and her dashing but dimwitted boyfriend Elmer (Jock Mahoney) rushes off ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Joker (uncredited)

1949-04-13 6.114

Tulsa

It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the h ...
Genre :Drama

Gestapo Officer (uncredited)

1947-01-15 6

13 Rue Madeleine

Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His b ...
Genre :Thriller, War

Trusty (uncredited)

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

Gunnery Soldier (uncredited)

1936-04-30 7.1

Half Shot Shooters

The Stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their s ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Cracker (uncredited)

1950-12-04 7.665

Harvey

The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister trie ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

Taxi Driver (uncredited)

1949-08-11 5.4

Slattery's Hurricane

A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story unfolds in flashbacks as the pilot battles the st ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Chopper Kane

1955-01-06 5.2

Fling in the Ring

The stooges are the trainers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on Chopper to win his next fight. When "Big Mike", their boss, tells them to have Chopper lose or they'll lose the ...
Genre :Comedy

1946-10-10 0

So's Your Antenna

Harry plays a gangster on a radio show and is then is mistaken for a real one. ...
Genre :Comedy

1947-12-25 0

Radio Romeo

Harry gets a job at a radio station as an "advice to the lovelorn" host and winds up getting involved in a young woman's marital problems. ...
Genre :Comedy

Pudge

1951-01-02 5.5

Gasoline Alley

A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dirk

1938-12-03 7

Hawk of the Wilderness

An expedition arrives on an uncharted jungle island to rescue the local natives, led by a jungle boy, from a volcano that is about to erupt. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Mess Sergeant (uncredited)

1951-08-28 5.9

Flying Leathernecks

Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds them undisciplined and prone to always finding ex ...
Genre :War, Action, Drama

Moxie (uncredited)

1939-08-04 5.6

They All Come Out

A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of crime? ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Pudge McKay

1951-09-17 0

Corky of Gasoline Alley

A small town family discovers an unwanted houseguest is harder to eject than they expected. Comedy. ...
Genre :Comedy

Janitor (uncredited)

1961-03-15 5.9

All in a Night's Work

After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detec ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Buck Walters

1943-08-12 3.8

Silver Spurs

Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying to get a railroad spur right of way. Lucky has a woman come west to marry Jerry to get control of t ...
Genre :Western

Soldier-Stage Manager (uncredited)

1943-05-21 6

Three Hearts for Julia

When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Chez Louis Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

1953-07-14 7.344

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lore ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Dizzy

1942-11-04 3.864

X Marks the Spot

A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds hi ...
Genre :Mystery

Sgt. Malone

1952-10-10 0

The WAC from Walla Walla

An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bailey

1949-05-19 5.2

Canadian Pacific

A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion. ...
Genre :Western, Adventure, History, Romance

Male Character

1947-03-28 0

Wife Tames Wolf

Caught philandering (for the 1867th time, give or take a couple), Leon's wife (Dorothy Granger) announces (for the 1867th time, give or take a couple as she wasn't always his wife) that she is going t ...
Genre :Comedy

German Machine Gunner (uncredited)

1937-05-07 6.2

They Gave Him a Gun

With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use. ...
Genre :War, Crime, Drama

Truck Driver (uncredited)

1938-07-16 5.1

Racket Busters

A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Arkansas (uncredited)

1951-06-03 5.7

The Texas Rangers

It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men fro ...
Genre :Western

Tough Lodge Member in Stands (uncredited)

1950-05-16 6.4

The Jackie Robinson Story

Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues. ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Jaillbird (uncredited)

1937-06-04 6.3

Border Cafe

The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny western town, and is rehabilitated through the friendshi ...
Genre :Western, Music, Romance

Collucci

1939-01-21 6.1

They Made Me a Criminal

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Convict (uncredited)

1939-01-24 5

Blackwell's Island

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

1957-10-24 0

Tricky Chicks

A pair of nightclub performers fall in love with government agents who suspect them to be foreign spies. ...
Genre :Comedy

Customer (uncredited)

1939-09-16 6.2

Dust Be My Destiny

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Fletcher's Mechanic (uncredited)

1939-10-28 7.494

The Roaring Twenties

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Sergeant Flint

1950-03-09 0

Dizzy Yardbird

Joe is in the army, and his sergeant is determined to make a soldier out of Joe if he has to kill him to do it. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sgt. Flint (as Richard Wessel)

1955-02-17 0

G.I. Dood It

Joe Besser has a fight with an army sergeant before he is drafted, and when he arrives at camp, finds the sergeant is his NCO and not adverse to taking revenge. When some documents are missing, the co ...
Genre :Comedy

Eddie--Honey's Fiance

1946-11-07 5

Slappily Married

Joe's wife, who thinks he's been carrying on with another woman, moves out. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bodyguard (uncredited)

1936-06-05 7.435

Fury

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Ben Macrow (uncredited)

1951-09-26 7.018

An American in Paris

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French sin ...
Genre :Music, Romance, Comedy

Dock Shore Patrolman (facing camera)

1938-11-25 6.6

Submarine Patrol

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Planetarium Guide (uncredited)

1955-10-27 7.512

Rebel Without a Cause

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms ...
Genre :Drama

Cab Driver (uncredited)

1949-09-20 7.252

Thieves' Highway

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-co ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Joe

1936-01-13 4

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnapin ...
Genre :Adventure

Detective (uncredited)

1945-12-25 7.577

Scarlet Street

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Night Watchman (uncredited)

1951-05-04 2

Her First Romance

A teenager experiences her first crush while attending a summer camp. Director Seymour Friedman's 1951 film stars Margaret O'Brien, Allen Martin Jr., Sharyn Moffett, Jimmy Hunt, Elinor Donahue, Ann Do ...
Genre :

Chopper Kane

1947-03-06 6.4

Fright Night

The Stooges are managers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on his next fight. ...
Genre :Comedy

1951-02-10 7

Life with Buster Keaton

Buster's shenanigans running a sporting goods store and his antics in a local theatre group. ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Chick

1947-10-11 6.8

Merton of the Movies

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generat ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Buffalo Burns

1940-06-07 6.5

Brother Orchid

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance

Policeman

1947-03-13 6

It Happened in Brooklyn

Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds that Brooklyn is not so nice after all. He is able to shar ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Brick McGirk

1939-05-22 3

Missing Daughters

The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Oscar

1946-05-31 6

In Old Sacramento

Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his double life--robbing by night, romancing by day and a ...
Genre :Western, Romance

Concessionaire #1

1951-10-05 4.4

Texas Carnival

A Texas carnival showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

Police Sergeant (uncredited)

1948-06-01 5.8

The Fuller Brush Man

Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance

Beans Clerk

1937-08-05 6

White Bondage

A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated. ...
Genre :Drama

Duffy

1947-10-17 0

Hectic Honeymoon

Sterling works as a woman's hosiery salesman, and marries one of the office secretaries only to find out that his boss has just decided that anyone in his employ that gets married will be fired. His a ...
Genre :Comedy

Toledo Thompson, aka Egbert L. Thompson

1948-06-24 0

Flat Feat

Sterling, a rookie cop, finds it hard to live up to the reputation his father, who was also a police officer, has. ...
Genre :Comedy

Man on Dance Floor (uncredited)

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

Cab Driver by Fire (uncredited)

1940-09-21 6.833

City for Conquest

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in li ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Crime

Backwoodsman

1940-09-19 6.5

The Howards of Virginia

Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

College Boy in Car (uncredited)

1936-04-10 5.9

Small Town Girl

Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and th ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Big Sailor on Downed Seaplane (uncredited)

1940-12-27 5.636

Flight Command

A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parach ...
Genre :Drama, War

Referee (uncredited)

1942-11-14 7.234

Gentleman Jim

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Convict Messenger (uncredited)

1940-02-17 6.8

Castle on the Hudson

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

Driver in Cafe (uncredited)

1940-07-26 6.9

They Drive by Night

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying t ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Ajax Moving Man

1953-06-16 3.2

Let's Do It Again

Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to m ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Governor of Florida (uncredited)

1961-12-18 7.3

Pocketful of Miracles

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Henchman Willie

1940-01-11 5.5

Cafe Hostess

A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Convict in Machine Shop with Gyp

1938-04-02 5

Over the Wall

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Train Engineer (uncredited)

1956-10-17 6.6

Around the World in Eighty Days

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance

Grenade Instructor (uncredited)

1950-01-01 6.396

Sands of Iwo Jima

Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for ...
Genre :War, Drama

Eddie - Garbage Man (uncredited)

1966-02-16 6.635

The Ugly Dachshund

The Garrisons are the "proud parents" of three adorable dachshund pups - and one overgrown Great Dane named Brutus, who nevertheless thinks of himself as a dainty dachsie. His identity crisis results ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Family

1947-04-25 0

In Room 303

Leon needs to make a business deal with Mr. Marshall but can't unless his son and Marshall's daughter straighten out their romantic problems. Leon, probably based on his own past history and the assum ...
Genre :Comedy

Henchman Hawk

1941-05-24 0

Desert Bandit

Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry certainly deserved his designation as "The Cowboy Cagney" in Republic's Desert Bandit. Barry is cast as two-fisted Texas Ranger Bob Crandall, who after being ...
Genre :Western

Gorman

1941-02-28 7.5

The Great Train Robbery

Tom Logan is a railroad detective who takes it upon himself to halt the activities of his crooked brother Duke. Duke and his henchman have stolen an entire gold train, including the passengers...... ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Lumber Deliverer

1941-12-12 7.7

Red River Valley

To bring water to their valley, ranchers have raised money to build a dam. When that money is stolen, Allison suggests the ranchers sell their stock to a friend of his thereby getting the money needed ...
Genre :Western

Jailer-Deputy

1942-05-18 5.7

Romance on the Range

Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends. ...
Genre :Western

Antlers Bartender

1942-09-14 5.5

Sunset Serenade

Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Songs include "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral," "He ...
Genre :Action, Western

Hershel

1943-04-09 5.5

King of the Cowboys

Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses. ...
Genre :Action, Western

Sgt. Brown (uncredited)

1941-11-20 6.599

They Died with Their Boots On

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and late ...
Genre :Western, War, Drama, Romance

Grant, Psychopathic Ward Guard (uncredited)

1941-12-24 5.9

Dangerously They Live

A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents. ...
Genre :Romance, War, Drama, Thriller

Hank Green (as Richard Wessel)

1956-11-01 0

The Desperados Are in Town

In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He ...
Genre :Western

Buchman - Prison Guard (uncredited)

1939-10-07 4.3

Hitler: Beast of Berlin

Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information f ...
Genre :War, Drama

Cop #2 (uncredited)

1939-08-01 6

I Stole a Million

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Bartender Charlie

1942-04-16 6

About Face

Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance. ...
Genre :Comedy

Army Barber

1942-11-20 6

Fall In

An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy. ...
Genre :Comedy

Al

1942-01-31 6

Brooklyn Orchid

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

Traffic Cop

1963-11-28 6.849

Who's Minding the Store?

Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determi ...
Genre :Comedy

Mike (uncredited)

1941-12-13 5

Steel Against the Sky

Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy

Detective Mallory

1943-05-28 7

False Faces

A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer. ...
Genre :Mystery

'Speedtrap' Calhoun

1953-08-15 6

Champ for a Day

An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favored Frankie Sebastian. George arrives but his manag ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy, Drama

Smittie

1952-02-23 6.1

Love Is Better Than Ever

The dancing teacher Anastasia falls in love with the smart theatre agent Jud. He likes her, too, but does not want to give up his solo life at all. Thus she plans a trap for him... ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Taxi Driver

1951-10-09 6

Reunion in Reno

A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences. ...
Genre :Comedy

Moving Man with Chandelier (uncredited)

1950-05-18 6.981

Father of the Bride

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

Cherub Joe (uncredited)

1943-06-12 7.1

Action in the North Atlantic

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes ...
Genre :War

Joe

1937-12-10 6

Borrowing Trouble

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sanderson, 1st Mate

1948-10-15 5.1

Unknown Island

Adventure-seeker Ted Osborne has convinced his finacee Carole to finance his expedition to an uncharted South Pacific island supposedly populated with dinosaurs... ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Horror, Adventure

'Leapfrog' Soule

1937-09-21 5.3

The Game That Kills

Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racketeers. When his brother is killed in a highly susp ...
Genre :Mystery, Romance

Detective (Uncredited)

1946-03-01 3.9

Blonde Alibi

Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past. ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance

Eddie Tasling

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

Mr. Clairborne

1949-03-22 6

The Green Promise

A stubborn farmer is raising his children alone. When his oldest daughter gets a suitor, the father nearly goes on the rampage, but he is forced to change his tune when he is injured, leaving her in c ...
Genre :Drama

Monk Grady

1935-03-08 1

In Spite of Danger

Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the fast-paced racetrack. Looking for another occupation he meets a girl, Sally Sullivan, who runs a road ...
Genre :Action, Romance, Crime, Drama

Dopey

1940-10-02 5

So You Won't Talk?

A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Cab Driver (Uncredited)

1946-03-01 4.8

Young Widow

A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war. ...
Genre :Drama

Henchman Gus

1955-01-07 6.1

Bowery to Bagdad

The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers. ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

Aircraft Plant Worker (uncredited)

1942-02-01 5.75

Joe Smith, American

Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get mili ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Drama

Officer Donahue

1941-09-12 4.4

Dangerous Lady

Private detective 'Duke' Martindale and his wife, Phyllis, an attorney, are working together to clear a girl falsely convicted of murdering a judge. Two people who know the truth are killed and 'Duke' ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy, Crime

Mailman (uncredited)

1949-09-08 6.5

Blondie Hits the Jackpot

Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood takes a job as a manual laborer for a construction firm while trying to get his old job back. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Liberti

1963-08-29 4.6

Wives and Lovers

Husband and wife Bill and Bertie Austin and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He's a struggling writer, at least until agent Lucinda Ford breaks the news that she's sold his book to a publi ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Henchman Craig Johnson

1937-02-28 7.7

Round-Up Time in Texas

Gene and Frog arrive with a herd of horses for Gene'e brother, a diamond prospector whose work has attracted the interest of a bunch of badguys. ...
Genre :Action, Western

Old Boyfriend

1947-02-10 0

Do or Diet

Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence, mother-in-law and brother-in-law, think he has been fired for being too fat and, over his fruitless objections ...
Genre :Comedy

Bullseye's Sidekick (uncredited)

1948-08-18 6.5

Hollow Triumph

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

Mavis' Doorman (Uncredited)

1946-08-02 6.1

Black Angel

A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Thriller

Blacksmith (uncredited)

1947-02-21 6.605

California

"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from ...
Genre :Western

Harry (uncredited)

1950-12-31 7

The Misadventures of Buster Keaton

Feature film fashioned from parts of Keaton's short-lived TV series "The Buster Keaton Show." ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Bill (uncredited)

1951-06-27 7.7

Strangers on a Train

Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur tennis player — a theory he plans to test out. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

1959-09-29 5.8

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, ...
Genre :Comedy

1957-10-04 6.4

Trackdown

Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Tele ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure

1954-10-04 5.5

December Bride

December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953. ...
Genre :Comedy

Squarehead Malloy

1953-01-02 6

The Life Of Riley

Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sol Durham

1955-09-10 6.558

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the sett ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure, Drama

Transfer Man

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

1958-10-10 4.6

Man with a Camera

Man with a Camera is an American 1950s television crime drama starring Charles Bronson. Former combat cameraman Mike Kovac (Bronson) is now a freelance photographer in New York City, specializing in d ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Tom O'Brien (as Richard Wessell)

1952-10-02 7.333

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 :

Charlie

1959-10-02 8.5

The Twilight Zone

An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist. ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama

Barker

1959-01-09 7.13

Rawhide

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama. ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Moses Hennepin

1964-09-24 6.867

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20 ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Western

Charley Hendricks

1963-09-17 7.207

The Fugitive

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery

1954-10-03 6.5

Father Knows Best

Family man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three children as they experience day-to-day changes. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

1958-09-22 6.526

Peter Gunn

Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in s ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1957-09-20 7.6

The Thin Man

Nick Charles was a private detective who married the wealthy Nora and decided to settle down and leave the good life. Unfortunately for the couple, Nick's past frequently caught up with him and got th ...
Genre :Drama

Officer

1963-10-04 5.714

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variet ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Talk

1963-09-15 5.5

Grindl

Grindl is an American situation comedy that began in the fall of 1963 on NBC, originally sponsored by Procter & Gamble. The show, starring Imogene Coca in the title role, lasted for one season. ...
Genre :Comedy

1955-09-20 4.5

Navy Log

Navy Log is an American drama anthology series that initially aired for one season on CBS. It relates the greatest survival war stories in the history of the United States Navy. This series premiered ...
Genre :War & Politics, Drama

1961-10-02 5.6

Ben Casey

Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboa ...
Genre :Drama

Carney Kohler

1959-09-13 6.2

Riverboat

Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds broadcast on the NBC television network from September 13, 1959 until January 2, 1961. It was produced by ...
Genre :Western

Trucker

1956-09-08 5.5

Hey, Jeannie!

Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on CBS from September 8, 1956 to May 4, 1957 in the S ...
Genre :Comedy

Sam Dlugash

1961-09-27 5.5

Dr. Kildare

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal ...
Genre :Drama

Jed Thomas

1958-10-05 5.6

Lawman

Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The se ...
Genre :Western

Fred

1955-10-15 5.9

Fury

Fury is an American western television series that aired on NBC from 1955 to1960. It stars Peter Graves as Jim Newton, who operates the Broken Wheel Ranch in California; Bobby Diamond as Jim's adopted ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure

Police Officer (uncredited)

1958-10-10 6.7

77 Sunset Strip

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, r ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Biff

1957-09-18 6.3

Wagon Train

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by look ...
Genre :Western, Drama, Family

Bink Sharfells

1963-09-24 5.803

Petticoat Junction

The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Man

1950-10-28 7.813

The Jack Benny Program

Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days. ...
Genre :Comedy

Carnival Manager

1963-09-15 7.667

Arrest and Trial

Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Stan

1958-10-10 6.7

77 Sunset Strip

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, r ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Big Mike Campbell

1959-09-12 7.512

Bonanza

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community. ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure, Drama, Family

Fred Brockway

1954-09-12 6.1

Lassie

Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Family, Comedy

Sgt. Willis

1954-03-11 6

Public Defender

The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 19 ...
Genre :Drama

Bill Hart

1952-12-05 7.053

The Abbott and Costello Show

Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Larry

1952-12-05 7.053

The Abbott and Costello Show

Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Assistant (uncredited)

1951-09-30 7.375

The Red Skelton Show

The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that ...
Genre :Comedy, Talk, Family

CPO Delaney - USS Farragut

1951-09-30 7.375

The Red Skelton Show

The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that ...
Genre :Comedy, Talk, Family

Steve Farrell

1954-10-04 5.5

December Bride

December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953. ...
Genre :Comedy

Willard Crane

1951-04-15 4.5

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 th ...
Genre :Western

Bartender

1956-09-25 5

Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow is a Western series which ran on ABC-TV in prime time from 1956 through 1958 on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Repeat episodes were shown by ABC on Sunday afternoons during the 1959–60 ...
Genre :Western

Howard Pitt

1961-09-25 7.5

87th Precinct

87th Precinct is an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper, which aired on NBC on Monday evenings during the 1961–1962 television season. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jed

1959-01-09 7.13

Rawhide

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama. ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Policeman

1953-09-29 6

The Danny Thomas Show

Danny Thomas, an entertainer, tries to balance his home life with the needs of his career, with hilarious results. ...
Genre :Comedy

Alvin T. 'Bear' Bristow

1954-09-21 0

Studio 57

Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956. ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Cpl. Delgado (uncredited)

1957-10-10 7.483

Zorro

Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from his studies in Spain and discovers that Los Angeles is under the command of Capitan Monastario, a cruel man who relishes in the misuse of ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Family

1952-10-02 7.333

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 :

Bill Basey

1954-04-09 7

The Lone Wolf

Genre :

Hank

1955-09-25 5

Frontier

Frontier is an American Western anthology series that aired on NBC from September 1955, to September 1956. The series de-emphasizes gunplay and focuses on the hazards of the settlement of the American ...
Genre :Western