Acting

Syd Saylor

Born March 24, 1895 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died December 21, 1962 · aged 67

No biography available.

Known For

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

The Greatest Show on Earth · 1952

The Greatest Show on Earth

★ 6.41952

MovieDramaRomance

To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.

Woman on the Run · 1950

Woman on the Run

★ 6.81950

MovieThrillerCrime

Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.

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.

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

If I Had a Million · 1932

If I Had a Million

★ 6.51932

MovieDramaComedy

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.

Filmography

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A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

Baggage Clerk (uncredited)

The Greatest Show on Earth · 1952

The Greatest Show on Earth

★ 6.41952

MovieDramaRomance

Circus Barker (uncredited)

Woman on the Run · 1950

Woman on the Run

★ 6.81950

MovieThrillerCrime

Sullivan

Scarlet Street · 1945

Scarlet Street

★ 7.61945

MovieDramaCrime

Tom Crocker, Evening Globe (uncredited)

Barker (uncredited)

If I Had a Million · 1932

If I Had a Million

★ 6.51932

MovieDramaComedy

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

Driver (uncredited)

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.

Hansom Cab Driver (uncredited)

Car Salesman (uncredited)

Sitting Pretty · 1948

Sitting Pretty

★ 7.11948

MovieComedy

Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.

Cab Driver (uncredited)

Action in the North Atlantic · 1943

Action in the North Atlantic

★ 7.11943

MovieWar

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.

Jim (uncredited)

The Spirit of St. Louis · 1957

The Spirit of St. Louis

★ 6.71957

MovieDramaHistory

In 1927, Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.

Photographer (uncredited)

The Sky Parade · 1936

The Sky Parade

★ 8.01936

MovieDrama

Aviation action highlights this programmer which concerns foreign intrigue and a pair of WW1 buzz-boys developing a high-tech aircraft.

Flash Lewis

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man · 1951

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

★ 6.31951

MovieHorrorComedy

As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.

Waiter (uncredited)

The Walking Dead · 1936

The Walking Dead

★ 6.31936

MovieCrimeHorror

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.

Kelly the Second · 1936

Kelly the Second

★ 7.01936

MovieRomanceComedy

A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.

Dan

Sleep, My Love · 1948

Sleep, My Love

★ 6.31948

MovieThrillerMystery

A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

Milkman

Great Day in the Morning · 1956

Great Day in the Morning

★ 6.01956

MovieWestern

After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.

Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)

Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.

Timmins

A Yank at Oxford · 1938

A Yank at Oxford

★ 6.81938

MovieDramaRomance

A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.

Second Printer (uncredited)

The Cowboy and the Lady · 1938

The Cowboy and the Lady

★ 6.31938

MovieComedyRomance

Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.

Cowboy at Ranch (uncredited)

The Las Vegas Story · 1952

The Las Vegas Story

★ 6.01952

MovieDramaCrime

When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.

Matty (uncredited)

A cattleman hires his cousin, Dare Rudd, to head a cattle drive. However, he doesn’t bargain for Dare taking an interest in his girlfriend or losing his money to card sharks

Dinkey Hooley

Born to the West · 1937

Born to the West

★ 4.91937

MovieWesternAction

Dare Rudd takes a shine to his cattleman cousin Tom's girlfriend who asks Tom to hire Dare to head the big cattle drive. Dare loses the money for the drive to cardsharps, but Tom wins it back, but Dare must save Tom's life.

Dinkey Hooley

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.

Charlie, Watchman

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.

Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp · 1955

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

★ 6.81955

SeriesDramaWestern

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.

Richard Diamond, Private Detective · 1957

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

★ 6.81957

SeriesCrimeDrama

Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.

The Handyman (uncredited)

Adventures of Superman · 1952

Adventures of Superman

★ 6.71952

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.

The Abbott and Costello Show · 1952

The Abbott and Costello Show

★ 7.21952

SeriesComedy

Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.

Sneezing Man

The Deputy is an American western series that aired on NBC from September 1959, to July 1961. The series stars Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal Simon Fry of the Arizona Territory and Allen Case as Deputy Clay McCord, a storekeeper who tried to avoid using a gun.

Soapy Waters

Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.

Johnson

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok · 1951

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

★ 5.31951

SeriesWestern

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.

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon · 1955

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

★ 6.81955

SeriesAction & AdventureWestern

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon is an American action adventure northwestern television series based on the radio drama Challenge of the Yukon. It was initially broadcast in color on CBS across three seasons from September 29, 1955 to September 25, 1958. Richard Simmons stars as Sergeant William Preston, who patrols the Yukon Territory in search of renegades and outlaws, during the time of the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s.

Buffalo Bill Jr. · 1955

Buffalo Bill Jr.

★ 6.01955

SeriesWestern

Buffalo Bill, Jr. is an American Western television series starring Dickie Jones that aired in syndication from March 1, 1955, until September 21, 1956.

Official Detective · 1957

Official Detective

★ 7.51957

SeriesMystery

An American anthology television series which aired in syndication from 1957 to March 19, 1958. The series was hosted by veteran film actor Everett Sloane.

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.

Waiter