Acting

Tom Dillon

Born November 7, 1895 · Strokestown, County Roscommon, Ireland

Died September 15, 1962 · aged 66

No biography available.

Known For

Mildred Pierce · 1945

Mildred Pierce

★ 7.61945

MovieCrimeDrama

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Duel in the Sun · 1946

Duel in the Sun

★ 6.41946

MovieWesternDrama

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

Scarlet Street · 1945

Scarlet Street

★ 7.61945

MovieDramaCrime

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers · 1946

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

★ 7.11946

MovieDramaThriller

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.

The Postman Always Rings Twice · 1946

The Postman Always Rings Twice

★ 7.11946

MovieDramaRomance

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

The Woman in the Window · 1944

The Woman in the Window

★ 7.41944

MovieCrimeDrama

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

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 knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.

Woman on the Run · 1950

Woman on the Run

★ 6.81950

MovieThrillerCrime

Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.

Filmography

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Mildred Pierce · 1945

Mildred Pierce

★ 7.61945

MovieCrimeDrama

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Policeman (uncredited)

Duel in the Sun · 1946

Duel in the Sun

★ 6.41946

MovieWesternDrama

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

Train Engineer (uncredited)

Scarlet Street · 1945

Scarlet Street

★ 7.61945

MovieDramaCrime

Policeman (uncredited)

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers · 1946

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

★ 7.11946

MovieDramaThriller

Police Detective #2 (uncredited)

The Postman Always Rings Twice · 1946

The Postman Always Rings Twice

★ 7.11946

MovieDramaRomance

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

Father McConnell (uncredited)

The Woman in the Window · 1944

The Woman in the Window

★ 7.41944

MovieCrimeDrama

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

Police Officer Dillon (uncredited)

Police Officer Pat McCarthy (uncredited)

Woman on the Run · 1950

Woman on the Run

★ 6.81950

MovieThrillerCrime

Joe Gordon

My Favorite Brunette · 1947

My Favorite Brunette

★ 6.61947

MovieComedyMystery

Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.

Cop (uncredited)

The Invisible Man's Revenge · 1944

The Invisible Man's Revenge

★ 5.61944

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partner is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.

Ned Towle, Darts Expert (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.

Cop in Prowl Car (uncredited)

The Notorious Landlady · 1962

The Notorious Landlady

★ 6.81962

MovieComedyMystery

An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

Coroner's Official (uncredited)

A young sailor is enamored with a mysterious woman performing as a mermaid on the local pier. As their existences become entwined, he comes to suspect the woman might be a real mermaid who lures men to a watery death during the full moon.

Merry-Go-Round Operator

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.

Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.

Pursuit to Algiers · 1945

Pursuit to Algiers

★ 6.81945

MovieMysteryCrime

After the King of Rovenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean liner which also carries a number of suspicious persons, any of whom may be involved in a plot to also assassinate him.

Matthias Cherney (uncredited)

Kansas City Confidential · 1952

Kansas City Confidential

★ 7.01952

MovieCrime

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.

Policeman (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.

The Catered Affair · 1956

The Catered Affair

★ 7.21956

MovieDrama

An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.

Father Murphy (uncredited)

Whistling in Brooklyn · 1943

Whistling in Brooklyn

★ 7.01943

MovieComedyCrime

Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.

Manager of the Beavers

Escape in the Fog · 1945

Escape in the Fog

★ 5.41945

MovieThrillerCrime

A military nurse recovering from a nervous breakdown at an inn keeps having dreams where she witnesses two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a federal agent, she's astounded to discover that he is the victim from her visions.

Lieutenant Commander (uncredited)

Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.

Tom

The Black Arrow · 1948

The Black Arrow

★ 5.51948

MovieActionAdventure

A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is now an outlaw. However, he becomes suspicious about the exact circumstances of his father's death and determines to find out exactly what happened.

Guard (uncredited)

Remains to Be Seen · 1953

Remains to Be Seen

★ 6.01953

MovieComedyMystery

A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.

Frank (uncredited)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents · 1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

★ 7.81955

SeriesMysteryDrama

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

Sergeant Balton

Adventures of Superman · 1952

Adventures of Superman

★ 6.61952

SeriesAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a syndicated TV adaptation of the beloved DC Comics superhero! You know the drill: When he isn't fighting for truth, justice and the American way, the man in tights dons a suit and glasses for his secret identity as Daily Planet newspaper reporter Clark Kent, who works alongside friends Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen for gruff boss Perry White.

Museum Guard