Acting

Phil Tead

Born September 29, 1893 · Somerville, Massachusetts, USA

Died June 9, 1974 · aged 80

No biography available.

Known For

Former detective Nick Charles has retired from police work, preferring a life of cocktails, parties, and relaxation with his wealthy wife, Nora. Their holiday is interrupted when the daughter of Nick’s former client asks for help finding her missing father, eccentric inventor Clyde Wynant. When Wynant’s body is discovered, Nick is drawn back into the investigation, with Nora eagerly joining him. As the couple questions Wynant’s family, friends, and business associates, a tangled web of greed, deception, and murder begins to unravel.

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.

This Gun for Hire · 1942

This Gun for Hire

★ 7.01942

MovieCrimeThriller

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.

The Most Dangerous Game · 1932

The Most Dangerous Game

★ 6.91932

MovieThrillerAdventure

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.

20,000 Years in Sing Sing · 1932

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

★ 6.41932

MovieCrimeDrama

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Act of Violence · 1949

Act of Violence

★ 6.91949

MovieThrillerDrama

A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.

The Gilded Lily · 1935

The Gilded Lily

★ 6.71935

MovieComedyRomance

Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who secretly loves her. When Peter learns that the already-engaged Charles has hurt Marilyn, he fabricates an article casting her as the "No Girl" who refused to marry a callous aristocrat. But when the publicity brings Marilyn unexpected fame, and Charles returns, she is forced to choose between the two men.

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Reporter (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.

Mr. Collins (uncredited)

This Gun for Hire · 1942

This Gun for Hire

★ 7.01942

MovieCrimeThriller

Machinist (uncredited)

Reporter (uncredited)

The Most Dangerous Game · 1932

The Most Dangerous Game

★ 6.91932

MovieThrillerAdventure

Passenger on Yacht (uncredited)

20,000 Years in Sing Sing · 1932

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

★ 6.41932

MovieCrimeDrama

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Reporter in Crowd (uncredited)

Act of Violence · 1949

Act of Violence

★ 6.91949

MovieThrillerDrama

Hotel Day Clerk (uncredited)

The Gilded Lily · 1935

The Gilded Lily

★ 6.71935

MovieComedyRomance

Rollercoaster Attendant (uncredited)

A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband.

Card Player (uncredited)

The Princess Comes Across · 1936

The Princess Comes Across

★ 6.21936

MovieComedyRomance

A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.

Jones, American Newsreel Man (uncredited)

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.

Seymour, Sergeant of Theatre Ushers (uncredited)

Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.

Prisoner (uncredited)

The Daring Young Man · 1935

The Daring Young Man

★ 10.01935

MovieComedy

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.

Cripps - Star Reporter

"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.

Eddie (uncredited)

The Front Page · 1931

The Front Page

★ 6.41931

MovieComedyCrime

Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.

Wilson

The Trial of Vivienne Ware · 1932

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

★ 9.01932

MovieCrimeDrama

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.

Mac - Reporter (uncredited)

Picture Snatcher · 1933

Picture Snatcher

★ 6.91933

MovieComedyCrime

An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

Reporter F.L. Strange (uncredited)

The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself arrested in Nevada.

Clerk in Newspaper Office

A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for his wiretapping services.

Mr. Wiggins

Goodbye, My Fancy · 1951

Goodbye, My Fancy

★ 6.41951

MovieComedyRomance

Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see if there is still a spark between them.

Reporter (Uncredited)

Horse Feathers · 1932

Horse Feathers

★ 6.91932

MovieComedyRomance

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.

Football Broadcaster (uncredited)

I Stole a Million · 1939

I Stole a Million

★ 8.01939

MovieCrimeDrama

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Charlie (uncredited)

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.

Second Juror Talking to Mike (uncredited)

A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

Exiting Theater Patron (uncredited)

Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.

Young

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.

Man On Platform (uncredited)

The Lone Ranger · 1949

The Lone Ranger

★ 6.71949

SeriesWesternAction & Adventure

The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit".

John Walker

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.

Prof. Pepperwinkle

Public Defender · 1954

Public Defender

★ 6.21954

SeriesDrama

The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.

Thomas Geer

Broken Arrow is a Western series which ran on ABC-TV in prime time from 1956 through 1958 on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Repeat episodes were shown by ABC on Sunday afternoons during the 1959–60 season. Selected repeats were then shown once again in prime time during the summer of 1960.

Amos

Letter to Loretta · 1953

Letter to Loretta

★ 6.61953

SeriesDrama

Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.

Clerk

Frontier is an American Western anthology series that aired on NBC from September 1955, to September 1956. The series de-emphasizes gunplay and focuses on the hazards of the settlement of the American West. It was only the second anthology Western series in television history, having been preceded by Death Valley Days. Frontier aired premiered on September 25, 1955, and ran sporadically in its last five months. Walter Coy narrated the series and starred in occasional episodes, which are dramatizations based on actual events. The program was produced by Worthington Miner.

Jury Foreman