Ralph Dumke

Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations.

Artists and Models · 1955

Artists and Models

★ 6.61955

A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings.

A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.

Deliveryman Deke Rivers is discovered by publicist Glenda Markle and country-western musician Tex Warner who want to promote him to fame and fortune, giving him every break he deserves. Romantic complications arise as Susan, another singer in the group, offers him devoted admiration as Glenda leads him on with promises of a golden future.

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The War of the Worlds · 1953

The War of the Worlds

★ 6.81953

MovieScience FictionAction

Buck Monahan (uncredited)

All the King's Men · 1949

All the King's Men

★ 7.01949

MovieDrama

Tiny Duffy

Invasion of the Body Snatchers · 1956

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

★ 7.51956

MovieScience FictionHorror

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

Police Chief Nick Grivett

The Desperate Hours · 1955

The Desperate Hours

★ 7.01955

MovieCrimeThriller

Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.

Clint

The Solid Gold Cadillac · 1956

The Solid Gold Cadillac

★ 6.31956

Artists and Models · 1955

Warren Gillie

Artists and Models

★ 6.61955

A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.

Mr. Trimm (uncredited)

Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)

Jim Tallman

We're Not Married! · 1952

We're Not Married!

★ 6.01952

A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.

Twitchell (uncredited)

It Should Happen to You · 1954

It Should Happen to You

★ 7.11954

Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.

Beckhard (uncredited)

Violent Saturday · 1955

Violent Saturday

★ 6.71955

MovieDramaCrime

Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.

Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that there are puppeteers? A crowd gathers around Lili as she sings. The circus has a new act. She now has a job. Will she get her heart's desire?

M. Corvier

All in a Night's Work · 1961

All in a Night's Work

★ 6.01961

After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.

Baker

The Mississippi Gambler · 1953

The Mississippi Gambler

★ 7.21953

MovieRomanceAdventure

Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.

Caldwell

The Law and the Lady · 1951

The Law and the Lady

★ 6.41951

A former housemaid teams up with an English gentleman thief and works a confidence game to bilk the wealthy but their plans for a big job in California go awry.

James Horace Caighn

The Breaking Point · 1950

The Breaking Point

★ 7.01950

MovieCrimeDrama

A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.

Hannagan

Wake Me When It's Over · 1960

Wake Me When It's Over

★ 6.71960

The war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's just the beginning of this wacky Air Force adventure!

Senator Gillespie (uncredited)

An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.

Police Commissioner

Francis in the Haunted House · 1956

Francis in the Haunted House

★ 5.81956

MovieFantasyComedy

Reporter David Prescott becomes unlikely friends with Francis, who is the only witness to a murder. As Prescott finds himself in and out of the police station as a supposedly delirious suspect, he must clear his name with Francis in tow, and set off to the spooky old castle where the real killer waits!

Mayor Hargrove

Mystery Street · 1950

Mystery Street

★ 6.81950

MovieCrimeThriller

When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.

Jim Black the Tattooist

Rails Into Laramie · 1954

Rails Into Laramie

★ 6.51954

MovieWestern

A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.

Frank Logan

The San Francisco Story · 1952

The San Francisco Story

★ 4.91952

MovieWestern

After five years of being away, Rick Nelson returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It isn't until he meets a beautiful San Franciscan, that Nelson decides to get involved with bringing law-and-order to the city by the bay!

Winfield Holbert (as Ralph E. Dumke)

The President's Lady · 1953

The President's Lady

★ 6.91953

MovieDramaRomance

The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.

Col. Stark

The Buster Keaton Story · 1957

The Buster Keaton Story

★ 5.21957

MovieComedyDrama

An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.

Mr. Jennings (uncredited)

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Roland Carter

The Andy Griffith Show · 1960

The Andy Griffith Show

★ 7.61960

SeriesComedyFamily

Andy Taylor is the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life.

Greendale Mayor Purdy

Lassie · 1954

Lassie

★ 6.31954

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.

Mr. Tumulty (uncredited)

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.

Husband (uncredited)

The Untouchables · 1959

The Untouchables

★ 8.01959

SeriesDramaCrime

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

Judge Albert Humboldt (uncredited)

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.

Judge Aikens

Father Knows Best · 1954

Father Knows Best

★ 6.61954

SeriesComedyFamily

Family man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three children as they experience day-to-day changes.

Howard 'Mac' McGrath

The Ford Television Theatre · 1952

The Ford Television Theatre

★ 7.81952

SeriesDrama

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.

Mayor Holcomb

Dennis the Menace · 1959

Dennis the Menace

★ 6.61959

SeriesComedyFamily

This 1959-1963 television situation comedy series follows the lives of the Mitchell family, Henry, Alice, and their only child Dennis, an energetic, trouble-prone, mischievous, but well-meaning boy, who often tangles with his peace-and-quiet-loving neighbor George Wilson, a retired salesman, or, later, with George's brother John, a writer. Dennis is basically a good, well-intentioned boy who always tries to help people, but who winds up making situations worse – often at Mr. Wilson's expense.

Mr. Burnley

The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.

Doc Fry

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show · 1950

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

★ 7.21950

Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.

Mr. McAfee

Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.

MacMurdo

December Bride · 1954

December Bride

★ 6.21954

December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.

Dr. Nelson

Lux Video Theatre · 1950

Lux Video Theatre

★ 6.71950

SeriesDramaComedy

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

Kibbe

Shirley Temple's Storybook · 1958

Shirley Temple's Storybook

★ 6.51958

SeriesFamilySci-Fi & Fantasy

Shirley Temple's Storybook is an American children's anthology series hosted and narrated by actress Shirley Temple. The series features adaptations of fairy tales like Mother Goose and other family-oriented stories performed by well-known actors, although one episode, an adaptation of The House of the Seven Gables, was meant for older youngsters. Temple's three children made their acting debuts in the last episode of the first season, "Mother Goose".

Tooley

The Gale Storm Show · 1956

The Gale Storm Show

★ 6.71956

The Gale Storm Show is an American sitcom starring Gale Storm. The series premiered on September 29, 1956, and ran until 1960 for 143 half-hour black-and-white episodes, initially on CBS and in its last year on ABC. The Gale Storm Show was co-produced by Independent Television Corporation and Hal Roach Studios. The series was aired under the title Oh, Susanna in syndication.

Clem Thompson

The Life Of Riley · 1953

The Life Of Riley

★ 6.71953