James P. Burtis

AKA:
0.131

1893-05-11

Emporia, Kansas, USA

Biography

Not Available
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {67}

Greasy

1935-10-21 0

Stormy

A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Music

Train Conductor (uncredited)

1934-05-11 6.821

Twentieth Century

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Nolan (as James Burtis)

1932-05-14 4.8

Strangers of the Evening

Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on. ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy, Horror

Ollie (as James Burtis)

1930-09-01 0

The Jazz Cinderella

Intending that her son, Herbert, marry debutante Mildred Vane, Mrs. Consuelo Carter is most dismayed when she learns that Herbert has fallen in love with Pat Murray, a model in Darrow's dress shop. Pa ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1st Mechanic (as Jimmy Burtis)

1932-12-16 0

The Racing Strain

A race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl. That motivates him to clean up his act and resume his career, but it may be too late for that. ...
Genre :Drama

The Railroad Detective's Assistant

1932-08-01 5.2

The Hurricane Express

The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can ...
Genre :Adventure, Mystery, Crime, Action

Bill

1931-05-05 0

The Lawless Woman

Dancer June Page is charged with the murder of gangster "Honest Ed" Baker. Allan Perry, an ambitious journalist at the dawn of his career, seeks at all costs to cover the case to obtain exclusivity a ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1936-05-17 6.8

Show Boat

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady. ...
Genre :Music, Romance, Drama, Comedy

Private (uncredited)

1935-10-25 4.8

Rendezvous

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

Joe's Mechanic Red

1932-04-16 5.9

The Crowd Roars

Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion. ...
Genre :Drama, Action

Joe - Man in Manhole (uncredited)

1936-04-25 7.5

How to Behave

Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert Benchley always has the best advice about any social situ ...
Genre :Comedy

Marine Jailer (uncredited)

1932-11-18 6.7

If I Had a Million

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Red

1935-07-14 5.9

The Keeper of the Bees

A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man called Bee Master and his protégé, Little Scout, who ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War

Mike 'Jeff' Jefferies

1936-02-27 6.5

Murder at Glen Athol

A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde ...
Genre :Mystery

Henry Brownlee

1936-08-02 4.2

Ghost Patrol

A Professor has an invention that will bring down planes causing them to crash and Dawson is forcing him to use it on those carrying money. When Tim arrives to investigate he is mistaken for a noted o ...
Genre :Western, Science Fiction, Crime, Romance

Police Sgt. Jardine

1931-10-01 4.2

Grief Street

A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing room with its door and window locked from the inside ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Romance

George Dobbs

1934-09-22 6.5

The Case of the Howling Dog

A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

1st Cop

1934-06-21 4

Here Comes the Groom

Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes awry and Mike finds himself on the run from the po ...
Genre :Comedy

Officer Butterworth

1933-04-08 1.5

The Bargain of the Century

Comedy short with ZaSuPitts and Thelma Todd. After accidentally getting a policeman friend fired, the girls must come up with some way to get him re-hired or be stuck with him as an unwanted roommate ...
Genre :Comedy

Policeman (uncredited)

1932-08-20 6

Show Business

The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe. ...
Genre :Comedy

Al Pine

1930-05-04 4.5

Ladies in Love

A small town Vermont fellow falls in love with a New York City radio singing star, but she is about to be married to the radio station owner. ...
Genre :Comedy

Men's Room Patron (uncredited)

1931-10-16 5.2

The Tip-Off

A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Chief of Detectives

1931-08-01 0

The Lady from Nowhere

A young couple pose as criminals in order to get the goods on their crooked bosses. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1931-09-26 6.7

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

Benny- Sailor

1934-05-26 6

Benny, from Panama

Jeanette and Eddie get married, but their wedding night is a fiasco. First, their wedding guests follow them, resulting in a police chase, then the guests show up at their apartment, disrupting the bu ...
Genre :Comedy

Traffic Cop (uncredited)

1934-10-05 0

Opened by Mistake

Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient. ...
Genre :Comedy

Moving Man (Uncredited)

1936-09-25 6.3

Craig's Wife

Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family mem ...
Genre :Drama

Joe

1935-04-22 6

Mister Dynamite

A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino. ...
Genre :Crime

Portly Gentleman

1937-12-31 5.2

Wells Fargo

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he r ...
Genre :History, Western

Cop (uncredited)

1931-04-11 5.8

The Finger Points

Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police on a raid and Lee in the hospital. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Second State Trooper (uncredited)

1935-08-02 6.3

Woman Wanted

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vo ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Detective Watson

1932-02-21 4.8

Sinister Hands

During a séance at an elderly millionaire's house, the millionaire is murdered. The detectives investigating the crime discover that everyone who was at the séance had a motive for killing the man. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

Stupe

1936-01-20 5.2

Dancing Feet

Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Race Track Crook

1931-07-10 4.5

Sweepstakes

A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race. ...
Genre :Drama

Detective

1937-07-09 5.7

Public Wedding

The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' abs ...
Genre :Comedy

Police Officer at Bureau

1937-04-16 5

That Man's Here Again

An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In order to keep her near him, he wangles a job for her ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Moe

1934-11-17 6.5

Gentlemen Are Born

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on i ...
Genre :Drama, Music, Romance

Reporter

1938-07-16 5

Men with Wings

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his unc ...
Genre :Drama

Motor Cop

1935-04-27 6

Mary Jane's Pa

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to fi ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Mike - First Mate

1932-07-08 6

Roar of the Dragon

A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who beco ...
Genre :Adventure, Romance

Card Player (Uncredited)

1934-12-30 5

Caravan

A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary. ...
Genre :Music

Taxi Cab Mechanic (uncredited)

1939-03-29 6.8

Let Us Live

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innoce ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Winch Control Operator (Uncredited)

1935-05-24 5

Murder in the Fleet

A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabota ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Comedy

Lacey

1935-10-16 5.8

Confidential

A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Dance Judge

1937-12-18 6

She Loved a Fireman

A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman. ...
Genre :Drama, Action

Red - Newsreel Photographer

1935-02-08 3.5

The Winning Ticket

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife. ...
Genre :Comedy

Convict

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

Chief Petty Officer (uncredited)

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

Mover Foreman (uncredited)

1933-11-23 7.5

Sitting Pretty

Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon proprieter, joins them. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Boat Captain

1936-12-11 5.5

General Spanky

Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are f ...
Genre :Comedy, War

Bill McGuire

1935-10-20 6

Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery

A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal an island's oil reserves. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy

Detective (uncredited)

1936-07-22 5.8

Satan Met a Lady

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief. ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Crime

Waiter

1937-06-16 4.8

Slave Ship

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Cookie (uncredited)

1931-11-20 4.3

Suicide Fleet

Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, War

Cab Driver

1934-04-03 9

The Undie-World

A gangster is smitten with the two girls in the next apartment. With the help of his violinist friend he gets acquainted with the girls by posing as a musician. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dink Hoops (uncredited)

1933-09-01 6.3

One Sunday Afternoon

Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Waiter

1936-11-17 4.7

The Accusing Finger

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investiga ...
Genre :Crime, Romance, Drama, Thriller

Motorcycle Cop

1935-10-08 4.5

She Couldn't Take It

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, incl ...
Genre :Comedy

Sweeney

1934-02-02 5.8

Hips, Hips, Hooray!

Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Sergeant

1938-03-18 5.7

Bulldog Drummond's Peril

Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters. ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

4th Expressman (uncredited)

1934-05-26 3.7

The Merry Frinks

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Whalen

1935-02-12 5.4

The Mystery Man

Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating a work bonus and wakes up on a train bound for St. Louis with only a buck on his person. To remedy the p ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Romance, Comedy

Eddie Boston

1934-07-06 8

Charlie Chan's Courage

Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing. ...
Genre :Mystery

Eddie

1932-08-05 0

Western Limited

A fancy masquerade party is the scene of a jewel robbery, and later several suspects in the robbery are discovered to be aboard the same train. ...
Genre :Mystery, Adventure

Deputy (uncredited)

1935-02-22 6.2

Murder on a Honeymoon

An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy

Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)

1932-12-09 5.3

The Devil Is Driving

Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a mechanic. Not realizing the garage he works for is actuall ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance

Kretz (uncredited)

1933-04-28 4.8

Zoo in Budapest

Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals. When Zani meets Eve, a young orphan girl, they fall in love. To be togethe ...
Genre :Drama, Romance