Acting

Kernan Cripps

Born July 8, 1886 · New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Died August 12, 1953 · aged 67

Elmer Ballard (July 8, 1886 – August 12, 1953) was an American actor.

Known For

Gone with the Wind · 1939

Gone with the Wind

★ 7.91939

MovieDramaWar

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

Double Indemnity · 1944

Double Indemnity

★ 8.11944

MovieCrimeThriller

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

The Roaring Twenties · 1939

The Roaring Twenties

★ 7.51939

MovieCrimeDrama

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

The Return of Frank James · 1940

The Return of Frank James

★ 6.41940

MovieWestern

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

When the Daltons Rode · 1940

When the Daltons Rode

★ 6.21940

MovieWestern

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?

Filmography

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Gone with the Wind · 1939

Gone with the Wind

★ 7.91939

MovieDramaWar

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

Yankee Soldier in Shantytown (uncredited)

Double Indemnity · 1944

Double Indemnity

★ 8.11944

MovieCrimeThriller

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

Conductor (uncredited)

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

Man in Movie Audience (uncredited)

The Roaring Twenties · 1939

Cop (uncredited)

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

Detective (uncredited)

The Return of Frank James · 1940

The Return of Frank James

★ 6.41940

MovieWestern

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

Deputy (uncredited)

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

Detective (uncredited)

When the Daltons Rode · 1940

When the Daltons Rode

★ 6.21940

MovieWestern

Freight Agent

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House · 1948

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

★ 7.01948

MovieComedy

An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.

Policeman (uncredited)

The Seventh Victim · 1943

The Seventh Victim

★ 6.41943

MovieHorrorMystery

After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.

Police Officer Danny (Uncredited)

The Invisible Woman · 1940

The Invisible Woman

★ 5.71940

MovieComedyHorror

Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.

Postman (uncredited)

Dance, Girl, Dance · 1940

Dance, Girl, Dance

★ 6.41940

MovieDramaComedy

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

Night Court Bailiff (uncredited)

The Falcon Takes Over · 1942

The Falcon Takes Over

★ 6.31942

MovieCrimeMystery

While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.

Doorman (Uncredited)

The House of the Seven Gables · 1940

The House of the Seven Gables

★ 7.01940

MovieThrillerDrama

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.

Workman

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

Policeman (uncredited)

Fifth Avenue Girl · 1939

Fifth Avenue Girl

★ 7.01939

MovieComedyRomance

A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.

Policeman in Park (uncredited)

Big Brown Eyes · 1936

Big Brown Eyes

★ 6.21936

MovieComedyCrime

Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.

Police Telephone Operator (Uncredited)

A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.

Joe, Police Clerk

The Falcon in San Francisco · 1945

The Falcon in San Francisco

★ 6.21945

MovieCrimeMystery

While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl whose nurse has been recently murdered.

Police Captain (uncredited)

The Defense Rests · 1934

The Defense Rests

★ 7.11934

MovieDramaCrime

A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.

Policeman

"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.

Shopkeeper (uncredited)

Black Friday · 1940

Black Friday

★ 6.01940

MovieScience FictionCrime

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.

Detective

Main Street After Dark · 1945

Main Street After Dark

★ 4.51945

MovieDramaCrime

A police detective uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket and her gang.

Police Scientist (uncredited)

Abraham Lincoln · 1930

Abraham Lincoln

★ 5.51930

MovieHistoryDrama

An episodic dramatization of the 18th President of the United States' life, including his early years, affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, debates with Stephen A. Douglas, the election of 1860, his presidency during the Civil War, and finally his assassination at Ford's Theater in 1865.

Conspirator (uncredited)