Acting

Richard Cramer

Born July 2, 1889 · Bryan, Ohio, USA

Died August 9, 1960 · aged 71

No biography available.

Known For

Double Trouble · 1941

Double Trouble

★ 10.01941

MovieComedy

Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidentally lose a valuable diamond inside a can of pork-and-beans.

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.

Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.

The Baron of Arizona · 1950

The Baron of Arizona

★ 6.71950

MovieRomanceWestern

The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona. Reavis marries the girl and presses his claim to the entire Arizona territory.

Scarlet Street · 1945

Scarlet Street

★ 7.61945

MovieDramaCrime

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

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.

Northwest Passage · 1940

Northwest Passage

★ 6.61940

MovieAdventureHistory

Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.

"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.

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Double Trouble · 1941

Detective Hogan

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.

Nick Grainger - Escaped Convict (uncredited)

Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.

The Baron of Arizona · 1950

The Baron of Arizona

★ 6.71950

MovieRomanceWestern

Townsman Watching Reavis Return to Arizona (uncredited)

Scarlet Street · 1945

Scarlet Street

★ 7.61945

MovieDramaCrime

Principal Keeper (uncredited)

The Flying Deuces · 1939

The Flying Deuces

★ 6.41939

MovieComedyWar

Laundry Truck Driver

Northwest Passage · 1940

Northwest Passage

★ 6.61940

MovieAdventureHistory

Sheriff Packer

Joe Portos

Frontier Marshal · 1939

Frontier Marshal

★ 6.31939

MovieWestern

Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Bella Union Bartender

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

Miner

Lawless Valley · 1932

Lawless Valley

★ 4.51932

MovieWestern

A cattleman's association hires a range detective to track down and capture a notorious rustler known as El Lobo.

Bull Lemoyne

Across to Singapore · 1928

Across to Singapore

★ 7.01928

MovieAdventureDrama

While Joel and his older ship's captain brother Mark are at sea, the latter is abandoned in Singapore by devious ship's mate Finch who, upon their return, convinces the townspeople that Joel abandoned his brother. Joel, determined to not only find Mark but to see justice done, returns the ship to Singapore.

Mate at Nathan Ross (uncredited)

Pack Up Your Troubles · 1932

Pack Up Your Troubles

★ 6.81932

MovieComedyWar

The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.

Uncle Jack

Strange Innertube · 1932

Strange Innertube

★ 4.71932

MovieCrimeComedy

After graduating from Taxi Driver school, Billy, Ben, and Clyde soon find themselves involved with a gang of jewel smugglers.

Diamond Joe

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.

Minor Role (uncredited)

Storm at Daybreak · 1933

Storm at Daybreak

★ 6.61933

MovieDramaRomance

Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.

Stepan, Dushan's Servant (uncredited)

The Fatal Glass of Beer · 1933

The Fatal Glass of Beer

★ 6.01933

MovieComedy

The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."

Canadian Mounted Police Officer Posthlewhistle

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.

Miner

Sergeant Madden · 1939

Sergeant Madden

★ 7.51939

MovieCrimeDrama

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

Detective

Three Godfathers · 1936

Three Godfathers

★ 6.91936

MovieActionDrama

In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men. Remade as 3 Godfathers (1949).

Prospector Dancing with Blackie (uncredited)

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.

Deputy (uncredited)

Turn Off the Moon · 1937

Turn Off the Moon

★ 8.01937

MovieComedyMusic

Department store owner J. Elliott Dinwiddy has waited fifteen years for the perfect astrological moment to propose to his secretary, Myrtle Tweep. His astrological advisor, Dr. Wakefield, has told him that if he can unite a boy and a girl in true love before midnight, he can propose to Myrtle the following night. Fate then brings unemployed dancer Caroline Wilson into the music department of Dinwiddy's, where she meets handsome songwriter Terry Keith.

Cop (uncredited)

In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

The Painted Desert · 1931

The Painted Desert

★ 5.21931

MovieWestern

Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?

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