Acting

Perc Launders

Born October 11, 1904 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Died October 2, 1952 · aged 47

No biography available.

Known For

Sunset Boulevard · 1950

Sunset Boulevard

★ 8.31950

MovieDrama

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Strangers on a Train · 1951

Strangers on a Train

★ 7.71951

MovieCrimeThriller

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

The Lost Weekend · 1945

The Lost Weekend

★ 7.61945

MovieDrama

Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

The Naked City · 1948

The Naked City

★ 7.21948

MovieCrimeMystery

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.

The Naughty Nineties · 1945

The Naughty Nineties

★ 6.71945

MovieComedy

In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

Filmography

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Sunset Boulevard · 1950

Sunset Boulevard

★ 8.31950

MovieDrama

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Violinist at New Year's Eve Party (uncredited)

Man in Projection Room (uncredited)

Strangers on a Train · 1951

Strangers on a Train

★ 7.71951

MovieCrimeThriller

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

The Lost Weekend · 1945

Doorman (uncredited)

Policeman (uncredited)

The Naked City · 1948

The Naked City

★ 7.21948

MovieCrimeMystery

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

Police Photographer (uncredited)

After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.

The Naughty Nineties · 1945

The Naughty Nineties

★ 6.71945

MovieComedy

Card Player (uncredited)

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

Lieutenant (uncredited)

The Blue Dahlia · 1946

The Blue Dahlia

★ 6.71946

MovieCrimeMystery

Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Undercover Girl · 1950

Undercover Girl

★ 5.51950

MovieCrimeDrama

After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.

Police Sergeant (uncredited)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man · 1951

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

★ 6.31951

MovieHorrorComedy

As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.

Cop (uncredited)

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.

Detective Bryson (uncredited)

Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.

Bachelor Mother · 1939

Bachelor Mother

★ 7.21939

MovieComedyRomance

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.

Policeman in Park (uncredited)

Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.

Naval Officer at Shipboard Dance (uncredited)

They Won't Believe Me · 1947

They Won't Believe Me

★ 6.51947

MovieDramaRomance

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

Police Stenographer (uncredited)

The Lady Gambles · 1949

The Lady Gambles

★ 6.11949

MovieDrama

When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.

Roulette Croupier (uncredited)

Follow the Boys · 1944

Follow the Boys

★ 5.71944

MovieMusicComedy

During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.

Studio Cop (uncredited)

Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.

Man (uncredited)

Walk Softly, Stranger · 1950

Walk Softly, Stranger

★ 5.11950

MovieDramaCrime

Fugitive Chris Hale starts over in a small Midwestern town in Ohio, where he befriends Elaine Corelli, a kind-hearted heiress left disabled after a skiing accident. As love blossoms, Hale vows to change his ways, but escaping his past may mean one last job.

Detective Taking Chris to Prison (uncredited)

A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.

Chauffeurs (uncredited)

Experiment Perilous · 1944

Experiment Perilous

★ 5.81944

MovieRomanceThriller

In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.

Ambulance Man (uncredited)

The Falcon in Hollywood · 1944

The Falcon in Hollywood

★ 6.21944

MovieCrimeMystery

Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find himself involved in the murder of a movie actor. There's no shortage of suspects: the costume designer to whom he was married, a tyrannical director, a beautiful young French starlet, a Shakespeare-quoting producer, even a New York gangster. Helping The Falcon solve the crime is a cute, wise-cracking cab driver and a pair of bumbling cops.

Statuary Molder (uncredited)