James Donlan

AKA: Jim Donlan

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1888-07-23

San Francisco, California, USA

Biography

James Donlan was an American stage and screen actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1929 and 1939.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {67}

Mike, Detective (uncredited)

1932-09-16 6.313

Thirteen Women

Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them. ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Detective Sergeant Patrick J. Howe

1935-02-22 6.8

The Whole Town's Talking

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Kirby (Tiger Kid's manager)

1934-09-21 5.7

Belle of the Nineties

Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Security Guard Fink

1932-12-09 5.367

The Penguin Pool Murder

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium. ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Sam (uncredited)

1933-06-24 7.1

The Mayor of Hell

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the admin ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Voting Returns Announcer (uncredited)

1933-09-23 4.538

I Loved a Woman

The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Managing Editor (uncredited)

1936-01-17 6.5

Exclusive Story

A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars. ...

Genre :Crime

Taxi Driver (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

Photographer (uncredited)

1933-06-03 5

The Nuisance

Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Marcus Lafflin

1933-07-05 5.3

College Humor

A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed. ...

Genre :Action, Comedy, Music

Getchel

1932-01-15 0

Big Dame Hunting

A drunken husband tries to sneak in but his wife catches him... and that means trouble! ...

Genre :Comedy

Mr. Smith

1932-04-25 3

Just a Pain in the Parlor

Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress. ...

Genre :Comedy

Salesman in Car

1935-10-19 6.4

Dr. Socrates

Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout. ...

Genre :Crime

Police Sgt. Donovan

1931-05-20 5.5

The Good Bad Girl

A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Jim, a Trainer (uncredited)

1931-08-08 5.1

Sporting Blood

A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Picnic Barker (uncredited)

1931-01-09 5.941

Danger Lights

Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and t ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama

The Bill Collector

1930-06-15 5.5

The Fall Guy

Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various nei ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Blodgett

1930-11-15 4.7

Remote Control

A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Casey

1935-12-27 6.5

We're Only Human

A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Man Advising Jim at Dog Track

1934-01-31 5.4

Dark Hazard

Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, ...

Genre :Drama

1931-09-26 6.57

Five Star Final

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Ben Wade

1929-09-21 4.75

Wise Girls

Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste. ...

Genre :Comedy

Clark

1931-12-26 5.8

Men of Chance

A gambler falls for a fake countess. ...

Genre :Drama

Steve - Ore Wagon #2 Shotgun Rider

1931-01-18 4.656

The Painted Desert

Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranc ...

Genre :Western

Adams

1929-10-11 0

Copy

On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Corky

1935-02-02 4.6

Under Pressure

Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel fi ...

Genre :Drama

Jim

1936-12-11 5.9

The Plot Thickens

A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case. ...

Genre :Mystery, Comedy

Shorty

1937-09-07 6.1

It Happened in Hollywood

A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Ernest Heath

1929-12-31 5.2

The Bishop Murder Case

The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murd ...

Genre :Mystery

Bide Taylor

1930-06-27 4.278

The Sins of the Children

A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west. ...

Genre :Drama

Mr. O'Toole

1934-04-18 2

A Very Honorable Guy

Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitio ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Romance

Evans (uncredited)

1934-01-20 6.5

Hi, Nellie!

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Eve ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Crime

Al (uncredited)

1933-02-10 5.5

What! No Beer?

When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters. ...

Genre :Comedy

Profhero

1932-08-04 6.154

Back Street

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Joe (uncredited)

1935-08-30 5

Here Comes the Band

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee s ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

City Editor

1930-12-04 0

Mothers Cry

Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life of crime and now returns to inflict his insane beha ...

Genre :Drama

Nightclub Manager (uncredited)

1936-03-07 5

Boulder Dam

Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run. ...

Genre :Action, Drama

Man Reported at Museum

1938-07-29 6.1

Professor Beware

Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scra ...

Genre :Comedy

Fred (uncredited)

1939-10-10 6.409

Babes in Arms

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both prof ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Andy McNeill

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

Drunk Inviting Laura to Dance

1931-05-02 3.4

Daybreak

An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy. ...

Genre :Drama

Honey Smith

1934-06-07 4.333

Now I'll Tell

A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most. ...

Genre :Drama

First Reporter (uncredited)

1932-12-24 6.3

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Fat Man with Ring (uncredited)

1933-12-29 7.101

Design for Living

An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Captain of the Prison Guard

1935-07-17 0

The Daring Young Man

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

Genre :Comedy

Reporter

1937-05-28 7.3

This Is My Affair

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

Genre :Romance, Crime, Drama

Heckler at Game (uncredited)

1932-05-14 6.6

Huddle

Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Jones - Times Reporter

1934-07-27 3

Paris Interlude

Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro... ...

Genre :Drama

Farmer

1935-03-22 0

Life Begins at Forty

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

Genre :Comedy

Detective Fritz

1935-04-13 5.975

The Case of the Curious Bride

After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband M ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

1933-07-12 6.9

Pilgrimage

A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I. ...

Genre :Drama, War, Romance

Suspect with Cold (Uncredited)

1937-10-08 5

Music for Madame

An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Harry Weems

1933-09-22 6.5

Doctor Bull

In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a he ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Buck

1930-03-02 3.3

Beau Bandit

Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and his posse. Montero has intentions of robbing the ban ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Western, Romance, Comedy

Freddie

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

Max Hill

1932-12-05 5.1

The Death Kiss

When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the ki ...

Genre :Mystery, Comedy, Horror

Reporter (uncredited)

1931-06-02 6

A Free Soul

An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Casey

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

Bill - Racetrack Bettor

1935-08-20 5

Hot Tip

An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies. ...

Genre :Comedy

Smokey

1936-08-01 0

Crash Donovan

A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring. ...

Genre :Drama

Hartland Company Salesman (uncredited)

1933-04-20 6.6

The Working Man

A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Morgue Attendant (Uncredited)

1933-02-18 6.446

Mystery of the Wax Museum

A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both people and corpses coincides with this grand reopen ...

Genre :Horror, Mystery, Comedy

Deke

1929-09-06 4.2

Big News

A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit. ...

Genre :Mystery, Comedy, Crime

Durant

1933-08-10 6

The Avenger

A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Mr. McEvoy

1930-08-03 6.2

Night Work

Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's designated 'Fired Man."; when a disgruntled custom ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Clinton (uncredited)

1931-02-07 6.4

Dance, Fools, Dance

When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Romance

Detective Kane

1936-04-17 4.889

Murder on a Bridle Path

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detectiv ...