Dan Riss

AKA: Frederic Daniel Riss
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1910-03-22

Streator, Illinois, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {57}

Mack

1957-08-22 5.8

Man on Fire

Bitter over their divorce, a wealthy businessman prevents his ex-wife from seeing their child. She then takes him to custody court and a judge tries to determine what will be best for the child. ...
Genre :Drama

Neff - Newspaper Reporter

1950-07-27 6.902

Panic in the Streets

A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

Skrip

1950-10-06 6.1

The Killer That Stalked New York

In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, govern ...
Genre :Thriller

Maury Ahearn

1950-04-07 5.6

Appointment with Danger

Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Self - Drama Coach

1955-07-02 5

Allen in Movieland

TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title role in "The Benny Goodman Story." ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, TV Movie

Jawald

1953-04-09 6

Man in the Dark

Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain surgery in the prison hospital. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Jim Walsh

1956-03-13 5.8

The Price of Fear

A co-owner of a race track goes on the run after witnessing something he shouldn't have at the track. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Frank Alton

1954-05-03 4.9

The Miami Story

Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the c ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Lt. Jerry Winters

1951-04-13 6.3

Only the Valiant

Only the Valiant, a classic western adventure, based on a novel by Charles Marquis Warren, the film tells the story of a Cavalry officer who volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apac ...
Genre :Western

Capt. Solari

1951-05-04 5.7

Go for Broke!

A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the training of a platoon under the rueful command of Lt. Mik ...
Genre :Action, Drama, War, History

Lt. Fenton

1952-06-20 5.4

Confidence Girl

After successfully swindling thousands of dollars from hapless victims, conflicted con artist Mary (Hillary Brooke) decides to go straight, but her greedy boyfriend and partner, Roger (Tom Conway), co ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime

Radio Announcer (uncredited)

1960-07-07 7.3

Elmer Gantry

A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name. ...
Genre :Drama

George Armstrong

1950-10-18 4.4

Wyoming Mail

In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in ...
Genre :Western

Voice of Radio Announcer (uncredited)

1959-03-25 6.6

Al Capone

In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama

Sgt. Bandini

1954-05-01 6

The Yellow Tomahawk

When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings of a scout go unheeded. ...
Genre :Western

Sergeant

1952-11-05 5

Operation Secret

After assisting the French Underground during WWII, an American Officer is later accused of murder and subversive activities by former colleagues. Based on the actual exploits of Lieutenant Colonel Pe ...
Genre :War, Drama

Walter Frisby

1952-06-20 5.1

Scarlet Angel

After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's identity. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Western

Court Clerk (uncredited)

1959-12-01 5.1

The Story on Page One

An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story. ...
Genre :Drama

Prosecutor Gruber

1954-08-05 6.8

Human Desire

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Sony ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Gen. Adams (uncredited)

1950-02-17 6.8

When Willie Comes Marching Home

When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping h ...
Genre :Comedy, War

Mr. Stanley (Wooleys' Attorney) (uncredited)

1949-09-28 7.2

Pinky

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white w ...
Genre :Drama

1958-06-01 5.8

The Case Against Brooklyn

A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

The Screen Writer

1950-09-13 0

The Screen Writer

This short film focuses on the job of the Hollywood screenwriter. ...
Genre :Documentary

Marshal McAfee

1958-08-02 5.4

Badman's Country

Pat Garrett arrives in Abilene where he catches five of Butch Cassidy's gang. He calls in Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson and they learn there is a half million dollar shipment of money arriving by train ...
Genre :Western

Sheriff Dan Carter

1954-11-25 5.2

Three Young Texans

A Texan robs a train in an effort to prevent his father from committing the crime. A young girl attempts to help him after learning about the theft. A cowboy friend demands a share of the money. ...
Genre :Western

Director of the Thompson Institute

1949-05-04 7

Arctic Fury

Based on adventures of Dr. Thomas Barlow in the far north. ...
Genre :Adventure

Dr. Frank Werner

1954-01-14 5.5

Riders to the Stars

Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world ...
Genre :Drama, Science Fiction

District Attorney

1950-08-19 6.8

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Mr. Taylor, Butcher

1952-04-18 6.1

Talk About a Stranger

Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Mayor (uncredited)

1951-02-24 7.146

The Enforcer

After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Judge Earl Tyler

1956-07-01 3.7

Johnny Concho

In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward! ...
Genre :Western

Jesse Rimmer

1952-05-01 6.4

Carbine Williams

David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Lt. Bob Imlay

1953-07-31 5.9

Vice Squad

A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day. ...
Genre :Crime

Gen. Wheeler

1965-12-21 7.5

Johnny Shiloh

Johnny Shiloh is a 1963 made for TV film that originally aired in two parts on the Wonderful World of Disney in Color. It was released in other countries theatrically as one film and is on DVD as one ...
Genre :Drama, War, TV Movie

Baxter

1960-02-03 5.9

Ma Barker's Killer Brood

Ma Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robberies and murders, and even get to work with such famous criminals as John Dillinger and Baby Face N ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

City Editor (uncredited)

1954-04-30 7.07

Executive Suite

When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him. ...
Genre :Drama

Arthur West

1957-09-21 7.7

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

Doc MacGowen

1955-10-05 5.4

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox ...
Genre :Drama

Robertson

1952-09-25 6.7

Four Star Playhouse

Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Officer No. 3

1952-09-25 6.7

Four Star Playhouse

Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

General Wheeler

1954-10-27 7.8

The Wonderful World of Disney

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. T ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Animation, Documentary, Kids, Family

Shelby (uncredited)

1955-09-06 6.8

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Jeff Pierce

1955-09-20 5.8

Cheyenne

Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE i ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Bert Crawford

1959-09-12 7.519

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

Frank Atkins

1949-09-15 6.7

The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure

Mr. Watson

1955-10-05 5.4

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox ...
Genre :Drama

Roger Wetherly

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

Vernon Hadley

1959-09-12 6.2

The Deputy

The Deputy is an American western series that aired on NBC from September 1959, to July 1961. The series stars Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal Simon Fry of the Arizona Territory and Allen Case as Deputy ...
Genre :Western

Kelleher

1957-09-18 6.4

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

Capt. R. A. Lohrman

1951-12-16 6.4

Dragnet

Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures f ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Dr. James Warner

1954-04-09 7

The Lone Wolf

Genre :

Tom Madigan

1959-09-12 7.519

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

Deputy Lou Putnam

1954-04-09 7

The Lone Wolf

Genre :

Railroad Agent

1959-09-12 7.519

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

Defense Lawyer

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

Sergeant

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

Charlie

1959-09-12 7.519

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