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Acting
Joe Whitehead
Born March 3, 1880 · New York City, New York, USA
Died December 2, 1966 · aged 86
No biography available.
Known For
The Magnificent Ambersons · 1942The Magnificent Ambersons
★ 7.31942
MovieDramaRomance
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Kitty Foyle · 1940Kitty Foyle
★ 6.61940
MovieDramaRomance
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
Tap Roots · 1948Tap Roots
★ 6.91948
MovieDramaWar
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
Beau Geste · 1939Beau Geste
★ 7.01939
MovieAdventureDrama
Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.
Young Tom Edison · 1940Young Tom Edison
★ 5.91940
MovieDrama
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
Edison, the Man · 1940Edison, the Man
★ 6.81940
MovieHistoryDrama
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
The Iron Curtain · 1948The Iron Curtain
★ 6.01948
MovieThriller
The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.
Alias Nick Beal · 1949Alias Nick Beal
★ 6.81949
MovieDramaCrime
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
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Kitty Foyle · 1940Kitty Foyle
★ 6.61940
MovieDramaRomance
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
Porter (uncredited)
Johnny Eager · 1941Johnny Eager
★ 6.21941
MovieCrimeDrama
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Mr. Ruffing (uncredited)
Red, Hot and Blue · 1949Red, Hot and Blue
★ 6.21949
MovieMusicComedy
In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob.
Building Manager (uncredited)
The Green Hornet · 1940The Green Hornet
★ 6.01940
MovieAdventureCrime
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
Editor Gunnigan (uncredited)
Blackmail · 1939Blackmail
★ 6.91939
MovieCrimeDrama
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
Oil Worker Anderson (uncredited)
Stronger Than Desire · 1939Stronger Than Desire
★ 5.51939
MovieDrama
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
Awakened Camera Clerk (uncredited)
Henry Goes Arizona · 1939Henry Goes Arizona
★ 6.21939
MovieDramaWestern
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
Mike - the Bartender (uncredited)









