Acting

Sam Lufkin

Born May 7, 1891 · Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Died February 19, 1952 · aged 60

No biography available.

Known For

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.

Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.

Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range war.

The Flying Deuces · 1939

The Flying Deuces

★ 6.41939

MovieComedyWar

Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. When they’re arrested for soon trying to desert the Legion—they escape a firing squad by stealing an aircraft.

A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while he searches for a valuable map hidden in plain sight.

The Battle of the Century · 1927

The Battle of the Century

★ 6.91927

MovieComedy

Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.

Filmography

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Stagecoach Baggage Handler (uncredited)

Cop

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

Pawnshop Owner (uncredited)

Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range war.

Farmer (uncredited)

The Flying Deuces · 1939

The Flying Deuces

★ 6.41939

MovieComedyWar

Legionnaire (uncredited)

A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while he searches for a valuable map hidden in plain sight.

Minor Role (uncredited)

The Battle of the Century · 1927

The Battle of the Century

★ 6.91927

MovieComedy

Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.

Boxing referee (uncredited)

The Fuller Brush Girl · 1950

The Fuller Brush Girl

★ 6.11950

MovieComedyMystery

A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.

Man on Bus (uncredited)

A Chump at Oxford · 1940

A Chump at Oxford

★ 6.91940

MovieComedy

The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.

Water Wagon Driver (uncredited)

Babes in Toyland · 1934

Babes in Toyland

★ 6.31934

MovieFantasyComedy

Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.

Townsman (uncredited)

Born to Be Bad · 1950

Born to Be Bad

★ 6.01950

MovieDrama

Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.

Taxi Driver (uncredited)

The Defense Rests · 1934

The Defense Rests

★ 7.11934

MovieDramaCrime

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

Masseur / Trainer

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

Gambler (uncredited)

From This Day Forward · 1946

From This Day Forward

★ 5.41946

MovieRomanceDrama

A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.

Husband

Double Whoopee · 1929

Double Whoopee

★ 6.81929

MovieComedy

Stan and Ollie wreak havoc at an upper class hotel in their jobs as footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel). They partially undress blonde bombshell Jean Harlow (in a brief appearance) and repeatedly escort a stuffy nobleman into an empty elevator shaft.

Man poked in eye (uncredited)

Canadian Pacific · 1949

Canadian Pacific

★ 5.21949

MovieWesternAdventure

A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

Townsman

Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.

Horn Factory Workman (uncredited)

The Mystery Man · 1935

The Mystery Man

★ 5.61935

MovieCrimeMystery

Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating a work bonus and wakes up on a train bound for St. Louis with only a buck on his person. To remedy the problem, Doyle pawns the revolver he's carrying. When the gun is subsequently used in a murder, Doyle's problems only multiply. In the meantime, he's also fallen in love with a comely stranger (Maxine Doyle) he convinced to impersonate his wife.

Weeks

The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen's house. Their task is complicated by a sassy nursemaid and, unbeknownst to them, the impatient Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen himself. But the biggest problem is the force of gravity, which repeatedly pulls the piano back down to the bottom of the stairs.

Policeman (uncredited)

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

Detective (Uncredited)

After a night of carousing, a rich oil tycoon awakes to find that he was married the night before. He calls in his lawyer to straighten things out.

Fun House ticket taker

Bacon Grabbers · 1929

Bacon Grabbers

★ 6.41929

MovieComedy

Two debt collectors try to repossess a console radio.

Man in Sheriff's Office