Acting

George Cleveland

Born September 16, 1885 · Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada

Died July 15, 1957 · aged 71

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Alan Cleveland (September 17, 1885 – July 15, 1957) was a Canadian film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1933 and 1954. Cleveland is perhaps best remembered today as George "Gramps" Miller in the early years of the long running US series Lassie. The early seasons in which Cleveland appeared were retitled Jeff's Collie for syndicated r…

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Carson City

Carson City · 1952

Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.

All That Money Can Buy

All That Money Can Buy · 1941

All That Money Can Buy

MovieDramaFantasy

Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.

Courage of Lassie

Courage of Lassie · 1946

Courage of Lassie

MovieFamilyAdventure

Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from her, and he's drafted into K-9 duty in the trenches until battle fatigue takes its toll and he turns vicious. And even though he finds his way back home, he may be condemned as a killer.

The Spoilers

The Spoilers · 1942

MovieDramaWestern

When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.

Two-Faced Woman

Two-Faced Woman · 1941

Two-Faced Woman

MovieComedyRomance

A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.

It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow · 1944

It Happened Tomorrow

MovieFantasyComedy

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.

The Star Packer

The Star Packer · 1934

The Star Packer

MovieActionAdventure

John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leaves off, and try to nab the mysterious Shadow.

A Date with Judy

A Date with Judy · 1948

A Date with Judy

MovieMusicComedy

Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship with Carol's bumbling brother, Oogie, Judy suspects that her father is having an affair with a beautiful dance instructor. The two girls team up to expose Judy's father -- who is only taking innocent dance lessons.

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Carson City

Carson City · 1952

Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.

Henry Dodson

All That Money Can Buy

All That Money Can Buy · 1941

All That Money Can Buy

MovieDramaFantasy

Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.

Cy Bibber

Courage of Lassie

Courage of Lassie · 1946

Courage of Lassie

MovieFamilyAdventure

Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from her, and he's drafted into K-9 duty in the trenches until battle fatigue takes its toll and he turns vicious. And even though he finds his way back home, he may be condemned as a killer.

Old Man

The Spoilers

The Spoilers · 1942

MovieDramaWestern

When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.

Banty

Two-Faced Woman

Two-Faced Woman · 1941

Two-Faced Woman

MovieComedyRomance

A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow · 1944

It Happened Tomorrow

MovieFantasyComedy

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.

Mr. Gordon

The Star Packer

The Star Packer · 1934

The Star Packer

MovieActionAdventure

John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leaves off, and try to nab the mysterious Shadow.

Jake

A Date with Judy

A Date with Judy · 1948

A Date with Judy

MovieMusicComedy

Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship with Carol's bumbling brother, Oogie, Judy suspects that her father is having an affair with a beautiful dance instructor. The two girls team up to expose Judy's father -- who is only taking innocent dance lessons.

Gramps

The Big Street

The Big Street · 1942

MovieRomanceDrama

Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.

Samuel Venus

Blue Steel

Blue Steel · 1934

MovieWesternAction

When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he is about to arrest him, the man saves his life. Still suspicious, he joins up with the man and later they learn that Melgrove, the towns leading citizen, is trying to take over the area's ranches by having his gang stop all incoming supply wagons. With the ranchers about to sell to Melgrove, the two newcomers say they will bring in provisions.

Hank - Innkeeper

The Toast of New York

The Toast of New York · 1937

The Toast of New York

MovieComedyDrama

After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.

Perkins - Luke's Secretary in Boston (uncredited)

Angel on My Shoulder

Angel on My Shoulder · 1946

Angel on My Shoulder

MovieFantasyComedy

The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.

Albert

Walking My Baby Back Home

Walking My Baby Back Home · 1953

Walking My Baby Back Home

A young man from a wealthy New York family pursues a career as the leader of a dance band.

Colonel Wallace

The Man from Utah

The Man from Utah · 1934

The Man from Utah

MovieActionAdventure

The Marshal sends John Weston to a rodeo to see if he can find out who is killing the rodeo riders who are about to win the prize money. Barton has organized the rodeo and plans to leave with all the prize money put up by the townspeople. When it appears that Weston will beat Barton's rider, he has his men prepare the same fate for him that befell the other riders.

Nevada Sheriff

Flaming Feather

Flaming Feather · 1952

Flaming Feather

A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder.

Doc Fallon

Frenchie

Frenchie · 1950

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.

Mayor Jefferson Harding

It's in the Bag!

It's in the Bag! · 1945

It's in the Bag!

The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

Busby

Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon · 1936

MovieScience FictionAction

Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.

Professor Hensley

Cripple Creek

Cripple Creek · 1952

It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the outlaws are stealing high grade ore, having it smelted, and then having it plated to look like lead. The Government sends agents Bret and Larry who arrive in Cripple Creek posing as Texas gunfighters. Bret finds the smelting operation and Larry learns of the payoff. But the crooked town Marshal is suspicious of the two men and the reply of his inquiry to Texas exposes them putting their lives in danger.

'Hardrock' Hanson

Affair with a Stranger

Affair with a Stranger · 1953

Affair with a Stranger

MovieDramaRomance

Depicts the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband.

Pop

Her Highness and the Bellboy

Her Highness and the Bellboy · 1945

Her Highness and the Bellboy

MovieComedyRomance

In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.

Dr. Elfson

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now · 1947

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's

John McCullen

Drums of Fu Manchu

Drums of Fu Manchu · 1940

Drums of Fu Manchu

MovieFantasyHorror

The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.

Dr. James Parker

Night Key

Night Key · 1937

MovieScience FictionCrime

The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.

Sam Adams - Company Engineer (uncredited)

Lassie

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment.

George 'Gramps' Miller

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok · 1951

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.