Russell Hopton

AKA: Russel Hopton, Russ Hopton
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1900-02-17

New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Crew Roles

Black Gold
Director
Song of the Trail
Director
Zombies on Broadway
Casting
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {94}

'Flea' Madigan

1933-10-06 6.365

I'm No Angel

The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the c ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Albert J. 'Al' Daniels

1933-05-20 6.8

The Little Giant

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsef ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

Smiley

1933-12-09 6.813

Lady Killer

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Bill Welford

1931-07-17 6.6

The Miracle Woman

After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind former aviator restore her faith and happiness? ...
Genre :Drama

Jake Brashear

1935-02-01 6.4

Wings in the Dark

In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely "fly blind" during adverse conditions, aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally blinded in an accident, but this setback doesn't d ...
Genre :Adventure, Romance

Harry Donnell

1939-03-08 5.6

The Saint Strikes Back

Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after being accused of corruption and dismissed from the ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

Terry Wickett

1931-12-07 6.444

Arrowsmith

A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine. ...
Genre :Drama

Deputy Thorpe

1931-08-22 6.688

The Star Witness

A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Gus

1937-06-07 5.5

Angel's Holiday

Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Crime

Montana

1932-01-10 5.5

The Drifter

A man known as The Drifter returns home to his cabin in the woods and winds up getting involved with an escaped convict, a gunfighter, lumber company rivals, mysterious family ties and murder. ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Joe (uncredited)

1936-01-19 5

Black Gold

Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Romance

Luther Johnson

1932-02-09 4

Law and Order

A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz. ...
Genre :Western

Pat Bourke

1932-06-02 0

Radio Patrol

A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

'Dizzy' Wilkins

1932-11-03 5.5

Air Mail

A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Pete

1934-04-06 6

Men in White

A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room mo ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Dave Nolan

1940-06-11 5.3

On the Spot

Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into national prominence. Frankie and his pal, Jefferson, be ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy

Jeff Slinger

1945-08-10 4.1

West of the Pecos

Heading west for his health, Colonel Lambeth takes his daughter Rill along. Lost on the desert they are saved by Pecos and Chito. The Colonel hires the two and the Lambeths soon find themselves mixed ...
Genre :Action, Western

Georgie

1933-04-01 0

Destination Unknown

A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind. ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Bob Adair

1932-01-03 4.8

Discarded Lovers

In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at Eminent Studios. The suspects are numerous due to her f ...
Genre :Mystery

Tony Richards

1933-08-24 6.3

One Year Later

A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his execution are a reporter, who is dying of lung cancer and w ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Phil Stardon

1934-10-14 4

A Successful Failure

Ellery Cushing is full of catchy sayings and old-fashioned wisdom. But all that his family cares about is how much money he makes, and all that his boss at the newspaper sees is that Cushing is gettin ...
Genre :Comedy

Pat Brennan

1935-10-21 5

False Pretenses

A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enoug ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Det. Lt. Ted Mallory

1935-07-03 4.8

Death from a Distance

While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Kelly Dillon

1935-10-19 5

Valley of Wanted Men

Three men escape from prison, go back to their hometown to try to find out who framed them. ...
Genre :Western

Randy Randall

1936-12-21 5

Beware Of Ladies

An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to write about. ...
Genre :Drama

Kid Regan

1931-10-20 3

Reckless Living

In order to be able to buy a gas station, a young couple run a speakeasy. Complications arise when the husband loses their money to bookies. ...
Genre :Crime

Monk, Curly's Hitman

1934-06-16 6.7

He Was Her Man

A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals". ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Brice Regal

1933-11-07 6.2

Back Page

A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in California. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Terry Mulvaney

1936-06-07 5.2

Below the Deadline

After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Flash Henderson

1936-12-06 4

With Love and Kisses

A naïve farmer writing songs tries his chances in New York. Unlucky, he is helped by a crooner who lusts after one of his songs. Ignoring the real value of his composition, he sold it for the money he ...
Genre :Comedy

Benny Sarto

1944-06-02 4.9

A Night of Adventure

A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Romance

Studio Actor (uncredited)

1926-06-06 7

Ella Cinders

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she i ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Sullivan

1932-03-10 3.5

The Big Timer

Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame. ...
Genre :Drama

Whitey

1933-04-29 4.9

Elmer, the Great

Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always ...
Genre :Comedy

Eddie Smith

1930-10-05 0

College Lovers

Romance on a college campus. ...
Genre :Romance

Frank

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

Klauss

1932-05-04 6.7

Night World

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who ...
Genre :Drama

Dimitri

1930-12-23 4.3

New Moon

New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Ta ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Music

Whitey

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

Steve Sankey

1931-09-05 6.8

Street Scene

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, a ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Gerard

1935-05-04 6.554

'G' Men

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Br ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

MacAndrews

1937-01-08 6.8

We Who Are About to Die

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Ed Brennan

1935-03-08 6

Times Square Lady

A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control. ...
Genre :Music, Crime, Drama

Crazed Sailor

1936-03-01 0

Sutter's Gold

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush. ...
Genre :Western

Chet

1934-09-08 7.3

Desirable

A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Lou

1938-10-28 5.3

Tarnished Angel

A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

Reporter (uncredited)

1932-08-04 6.1

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

Alec

1930-11-29 6.261

Min and Bill

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Rusty Callahan

1932-04-19 6

The Famous Ferguson Case

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Duke Milford

1935-02-01 0

Northern Frontier

A Mountie sets out to infiltrate and break up a gang of counterfeiters. ...
Genre :Western

Lee Adams

1935-08-05 5.5

Cheers of the Crowd

To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowing that the man is on the run from the law. ...
Genre :Drama, Music, Romance

Collins (uncredited)

1939-02-10 6.2

Made for Each Other

A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Cable Operator (uncredited)

1936-03-07 4

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

Harry 'The Carver' Bogard

1939-10-28 3.4

Torture Ship

A mad scientist uses captured criminals as experiments for his study on "the criminal mind" aboard his private ship. ...
Genre :Horror, Science Fiction

Bill Hamilton

1934-08-07 4

Take the Stand

A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers. ...
Genre :Mystery

Reporter Mooney

1933-10-01 5.8

Curtain at Eight

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental pr ...
Genre :Mystery

Convict Frankie

1939-10-24 4.4

Mutiny in the Big House

A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison... ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Tommy Tennant

1935-04-19 6

Star of Midnight

When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception. ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Romance

Dispatch Operator Harper

1935-03-02 5

Car 99

A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urg ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Barker (uncredited)

1939-05-19 7.2

Some Like It Hot

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk t ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Smiley

1934-10-20 4.5

I Sell Anything

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned? ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Bob Smoky Joslin

1939-07-25 5

Renegade Trail

Hoppy goes to town to help Marshal Windy with some rustlers and winds up helping the widow Joyce when confidence men try to take her herd. King's Men songs include: "Hi Thar Stranger" and "Lazy Rolls ...
Genre :Western

Steve Karns

1934-05-18 5.8

Born to Be Bad

Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be taken advantage of. Letty teaches her child to lie, s ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Peter Brindell

1937-08-18 6.7

One Mile from Heaven

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds. ...
Genre :Drama

Captain Enrique Vargas

1930-08-16 4.5

Call of the Flesh

A postulant falls in love with a flamboyant singer from a cafe next door to her convent. ...
Genre :Music, Romance

American Legion Doctor

1932-06-30 5.2

Tom Brown of Culver

Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter. ...
Genre :Drama

Police Officer

1940-03-30 5.5

Son of the Navy

A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down. ...
Genre :

Police Broadcaster

1940-03-14 4.8

Women Without Names

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fre ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

A Dip

1935-05-03 0

Circus Shadows

A phoney "psychic" ring tricks a pretty young circus performer into working for them. ...
Genre :Romance, Crime, Drama

Jerome 'Jerry' Hyland

1932-10-02 7

Once in a Lifetime

Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies. ...
Genre :Comedy

Billy Dooley

1932-02-17 7.5

The Circus Show-Up

The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch just as she starts her famed triple somersault. It ...
Genre :Mystery

Frisco

1936-01-09 0

Rose of the Rancho

It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of California were the descendants of the Dons who had ...
Genre :Music, Romance, Western

Eddie

1935-12-03 0

Frisco Waterfront

As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponent. A flashback traces his career from unemployed v ...
Genre :Drama

'Spats' Edwards

1934-03-16 5.5

Good Dame

A chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Against her better judgement, she hooks up with a smooth-talking con artist who says he can help her get out of town. ...
Genre :Drama

Kelly

1937-09-30 4.1

Idol of the Crowds

Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to the game and leads his team into the championship series. Just before the series starts, he is offer ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Hugh Collins

1934-11-11 0

The World Accuses

When a middle aged woman accepts a job at a day care center she comes across the child she gave up early in life. ...
Genre :

Charlie Edwards

1937-08-27 6

Bad Guy

A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the bars of his cell. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Police Detective

1944-06-09 0

Girls! Girls! Girls!

Errol is mistakenly involved in the raid of a burlesque show where he had innocently gone in order to hire some talent, including a fan dancer, for his lodge show. ...
Genre :Comedy

Radio Announcer

1944-03-28 0

Radio Rampage

When the family radio goes on the fritz, Edgar, naturally, decides to fix it himself in order to save a few bucks. That Edgar will destroy the house doing this simple project is a foregone conclusion. ...
Genre :Comedy

State's Attorney

1931-01-03 6.086

The Criminal Code

After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warde ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

'Slim' Sullivan

1934-06-01 0

Half a Sinner

A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher. ...
Genre :Drama

Benny

1945-05-01 5.019

Zombies on Broadway

Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences. ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror

Jerry (uncredited)

1931-09-16 7

Blonde Crazy

Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Comedy, Romance

Thief

1945-02-16 0

Birthday Blues

Leon, not willing to admit he had forgotten the birthday of his wife, tells her he left her present at the office, and she insists he go get it. On the way, a sidewalk salesman sells him a fur coat wh ...
Genre :Comedy

Max, Chauffeur

1933-07-20 5.6

Secret of the Blue Room

According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can surv ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Horror

(uncredited)

1945-04-24 5.8

Betrayal from the East

A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal. ...
Genre :Thriller, Action, Drama

Sheriff Arthur Billings

1936-06-19 5.5

The Last Outlaw

After serving 25 years in prison for robbery, Dean Payton returns to his home town to see his daughter, Sally, who is unaware he is her father. He befriends Cal Yates, the now semi-retired assistant s ...
Genre :Western

Elliott Robbins, aka Buck Kreegar

1934-03-22 6

School for Girls

After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in ...
Genre :Crime

Crooked Owner

1932-06-22 6

Fast Companions

A crooked jockey tries to reform. ...
Genre :Drama

Jerry Clayton

1938-10-05 0

Crime Takes a Holiday

A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Craig

1935-05-14 5

The Headline Woman

When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventuall ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Police Sergeant (archive footage) (uncredited)

1950-05-20 5.4

So Young, So Bad

Idealistic and naive Dr. Jason arrives at a school for delinquent girls and immediately begins to try to make a difference in the lives of some of the inmates. Oblivious to the sadistic treatment of t ...
Genre :Drama

Dickens (uncredited)

1944-09-01 4.2

Youth Runs Wild

The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war. ...
Genre :Drama

Reporter (uncredited)

1945-10-25 5.9

Johnny Angel

George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama