Acting
Peter M. Thompson
Born November 9, 1920 · Ottumwa, Iowa, USA
Died October 9, 2001 · aged 80
No biography available.
Known For
Father of the Bride · 1950Father of the Bride
★ 7.01950
MovieComedyRomance
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
The Flying Missile · 1950The Flying Missile
★ 5.31950
MovieDrama
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
Who Was That Lady? · 1960Who Was That Lady?
★ 6.41960
MovieComedyRomance
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
A Double Life · 1947A Double Life
★ 6.31947
MovieDramaThriller
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
Buck Privates Come Home · 1947Buck Privates Come Home
★ 6.41947
MovieComedyRomance
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
Mystery Street · 1950Mystery Street
★ 6.81950
MovieCrimeThriller
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
The Happy Years · 1950The Happy Years
★ 7.51950
MovieComedyRomance
Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap · 1947The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
★ 6.21947
MovieComedyWestern
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.








