George McKay

AKA: George Reuben
1.4284

1884-04-15

Minsk, Russian Empire [now Belarus]

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {87}

Burp (uncredited)

1945-03-22 5.313

Salty O'Rourke

A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse. ...
Genre :Drama

Bill "Goldy" Golden

1940-08-15 0

The Secret Seven

Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders. ...
Genre :Crime

Martin

1935-11-25 5

One Way Ticket

A convict marries the warder's daughter after his escape and she eventually persuades him to finish his sentence. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Ebenezer

1942-10-22 6.3

The Boogie Man Will Get You

A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar. ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror

Spud

1936-07-17 0

Shakedown

A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph bus ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

Kane

1938-08-18 5.9

Convicted

A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Terry Finnegan

1941-01-16 6.5

The Face Behind the Mask

A sweet, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Horror

Pete Dugan

1942-12-03 0

Underground Agent

In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a word scrambler which makes it difficult for the en ...
Genre :Romance, Action, Drama

Detective Morgan (uncredited)

1942-05-14 6

Not a Ladies' Man

A recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Roggi McKay

1942-04-02 5.5

Alias Boston Blackie

It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a br ...
Genre :Mystery

Marty Beck

1943-03-18 5.583

After Midnight with Boston Blackie

Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Joe Day (uncredited)

1944-07-30 6.8

Secret Command

Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jeff still resents Sam for abandoning the family year ...
Genre :Action, War, Drama

Coach (uncredited)

1935-05-18 6

The Love Department

In this musical short, a love columnist can't find her own love connection. ...
Genre :Music, Romance

Bits

1945-06-07 0

Ten Cents a Dance

Two privates on a 36 hour pass meet two dance hall dames, complications ensue! ...
Genre :Comedy

'Horseface'

1937-03-30 6

Racketeers in Exile

In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to begin billing himself as a "born-again" evangelist so ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Schmidty

1936-08-15 0

Two-Fisted Gentleman

Mickey, is a prizefighter whose bright career hits the skids when he comes under the guidance of Ginger, a female fight promoter, when he becomes involved with June Prentice and her high-society crowd ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Police Sgt. Carney

1936-07-23 5

Blackmailer

Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead. ...
Genre :Mystery

Mitch Cook

1936-02-05 2.5

You May Be Next!

Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Drama

Silver

1938-02-14 4.75

Special Inspector

U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper's trucks and sells the loot in the United States. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

'Brains' McGillicuddy

1937-12-17 3

Murder Is News

A radio reporter does a story on the infidelity and divorce of a wealthy and powerful businessman. The man invites the reporter to his mansion for a chat, but when he gets there, he finds that the bus ...
Genre :

Louie

1935-08-25 5.5

Atlantic Adventure

When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

1933-12-08 0

The Good Bad Man

The film is set in Mexico. General Pancho is some sort of despot...sort of a Pancho Villa-type. When he arrives in town, some folks are scared...but a local vixen is excited as she thinks violent thug ...
Genre :Comedy

House Man

1944-04-25 7

And the Angels Sing

The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

License Clerk

1937-09-01 5

It's All Yours

Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and in five years the extravagant escapes of Jimmy, now a lawyer, are the talk of San Francisco. Linda ...
Genre :Comedy

Hartley

1938-12-24 6

Newsboys' Home

A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Canada Brown

1944-07-13 6

Louisiana Hayride

A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Joe Lavery

1937-05-02 6

The Frame-Up

A detective investigates a racing scam. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Frank 'Old Man' Butler

1938-11-02 6.5

Illegal Traffic

G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, w ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

Detective-Sergeant Casey

1937-01-17 6

Woman in Distress

Investigating rumors that a priceless Rembrandt, believed destroyed years ago, is actually in the possession of an elderly spinster, a male newspaper reporter and his female rival determine that it is ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

Danny

1935-06-25 6

After the Dance

Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1941-10-15 5

The Blonde from Singapore

Fortune hunter Mary Brooks, posing as a missionary's daughter, strives to beat a couple of pilots, Terry Prescott and "Waffles" Billings, (who have turned pearl divers in order to buy a plane and join ...
Genre :Adventure

Red Anderson

1937-01-24 5.75

Devil's Playground

A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Reporter (uncredited)

1939-10-19 7.845

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mr. Fishbeck

1939-10-04 2

$1,000 a Touchdown

A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score. ...
Genre :Comedy

Brice

1939-10-10 6.429

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

Nick - Jewelry Fence

1940-05-30 6.3

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit. ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy

Mr. Van Heusen (uncredited)

1944-01-01 6.708

Going My Way

Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowle ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Music

Process Server

1940-09-01 6.7

Five Little Peppers in Trouble

The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school. ...
Genre :Family, Comedy, Drama

Griggs

1940-01-05 5

Emergency Squad

Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies whe ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

Sluggy, the stuttering umpire

1937-06-23 4

Girls Can Play

The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl's s ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Angel White

1936-05-25 6

Counterfeit

A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Pinky

1936-12-31 0

Counterfeit Lady

Phyllis Fowler claims to be just a "simple little country girl" trying to get by in the wicked big-city, and she takes a big getting-by step when she pulls a scam that gains her a $17,000 diamond from ...
Genre :Comedy, Action, Adventure

Ben Parker

1936-10-10 8

End of the Trail

In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he becomes a cattle rustler until he can get back on his feet. Just as he is ready to go straight, his g ...
Genre :Western

Spudsy

1937-06-30 1

A Fight to the Finish

A feud between taxicab companies forms the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when the hero is double-crossed and framed for a murder by his rival with whom he was competing for the position of f ...
Genre :Drama

Photofinish Farris

1941-10-05 7

The Stork Pays Off

Gangster Deak Foster and his three henchmen, Brains Moran, Ears-to-the-Ground Hinkle and Photofinish Farris, take over what they think is a night club run by a rival, Stud Rocco, only to discover it i ...
Genre :Comedy

Bartender Tim

1943-12-16 5.75

Klondike Kate

A young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Music, Western

Station Master

1944-01-28 5

Beautiful But Broke

Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Harry's Understudy

1930-04-19 0

Sixteen Sweeties

A claustrophobic stage revue where McNaughton comes out to introduce the numbers with Thelma white and chorines, but is interrupted by Wills and Carney with painful gags, and some clothes-tearing hors ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Jerry Ross

1941-08-02 0

The Richest Man in Town

The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one. ...
Genre :Comedy

Emmett Andrews

1939-04-13 7

Code of the Streets

Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Workman at Fogarty's (uncredited)

1940-11-22 6.667

Little Nellie Kelly

Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Reardon

1940-09-17 6.1

Before I Hang

Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging. The experiment takes an unexpected turn, placing the doctor in a confrontation with the ethics ...
Genre :Crime, Horror, Science Fiction

Clerk (uncredited)

1940-05-20 5.3

Island of Doomed Men

An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Bartender George

1940-11-11 0

Beyond the Sacramento

Bill learns that two con artists whom he has dealt with before are at it again. Crowley runs the saloon and Adams the newspaper and both are highly respected by the citizens. Bill has foiled their sch ...
Genre :Western

Kennedy

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

Sales Clerk

1946-08-09 5.125

The Last Crooked Mile

A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Murphy, Fingerprint Officer

1943-06-22 6.2

Crime Doctor

Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist. ...
Genre :Crime

Rod Fenton

1942-10-01 0

Lucky Legs

Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that wil ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Horseface

1941-12-11 4.2

Honolulu Lu

While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Taxicab Driver

1940-05-31 7.5

La Conga Nights

In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Steve, Stage Manager

1933-11-25 4

Take a Chance

Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Dan

1936-02-28 0

Don't Gamble with Love

Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to start a family wife feels the need to change their s ...
Genre :Drama

McKay

1941-03-06 6

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder. ...
Genre :Mystery

Charles 'Chuck' Brown

1942-08-27 6

Sabotage Squad

A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend w ...
Genre :Crime

Rudolph

1936-11-07 0

Come Closer, Folks

A fast-talking pitchman working the con-games on the streets, works himself up into an executive position of a large department store, with the aide of his shill, Mae. But the owner, Elmer Woods, of t ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Officer

1937-11-03 6.3

Murder in Greenwich Village

A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they mu ...
Genre :Mystery, Romance, Comedy

Murphy

1939-02-17 7

King of the Turf

Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around ho ...
Genre :Drama

Fly Speck Sam

1935-05-18 0

The Awakening of Jim Burke

After his divorced wife dies, Jim Burke takes their son who she had been raising and he hasn't seen in many years. Jim Burke is a tough, hard-nosed construction boss on engineering projects, and he is ...
Genre :Drama

Storekeeper (uncredited)

1945-06-23 6.6

Murder, He Says

Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begi ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Crime

Red

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

Varsity Hockey Coach

1938-12-29 3.8

The Duke of West Point

A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Romance

Bartender (uncredited)

1940-09-27 4.667

Glamour for Sale

A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls. ...
Genre :Drama

Waiter (uncredited)

1946-02-27 6.636

Road to Utopia

While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Music, Family

Steward (uncredited)

1941-08-20 5.7

Our Wife

A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success. ...
Genre :Comedy

Southcote

1943-04-01 4.6

Murder in Times Square

An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Frank Nelson

1935-10-20 0

Case of the Missing Man

After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job and takes up free-lancing as a street-photographer for a living. He stumbles across the robbing of a j ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Romance

Nick Pollack

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

Charlie

1936-07-07 6

The Final Hour

A down-and-out lawyer gets back on his feet with help from a singer who later retains him to defend her on a murder charge. ...
Genre :Drama

Police Sergeant McNulty (Uncredited)

1944-10-21 5.909

One Mysterious Night

After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuse ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

Police Sgt. Kelly

1936-10-27 6

Killer at Large

A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels. ...
Genre :Mystery

Buzz Miller

1939-12-22 0

The Big Guy

A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Phil Edwards

1938-01-23 0

Little Miss Roughneck

Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyis ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Music

Mike McManus

1943-04-15 0

She Has What It Takes

Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway play producer in starring her in a ...
Genre :Comedy

Dildy

1935-09-30 5

The Public Menace

1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass Dumbrille) cross paths. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Police Officer at Tunnel (Uncredited)

1942-08-13 5.8

The Big Street

Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Monte (Uncredited)

1945-07-27 4.5

Midnight Manhunt

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Mayor Stokes of San Diego

1940-12-06 3.5

A Night at Earl Carroll's

Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll ...
Genre :Music