Tom Herbert

Movies

Steppin' in Society
Hilliard
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
Lost in a Harem
Café Drunk (uncredited)
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
Block Busters
Meyer
Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers. But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean is chased out of the neighborhood and told not to return.
Ghosts on the Loose
Park Central Plaza Desk Clerk (uncredited)
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.
Dixie
Homer
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."
Broadway Big Shot
Carnation Charlie
This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous journalist, also a star quarterback on the town college team, decides to become a convict himself. He gets into the prison, becomes president of the prisoners' union, does his interview, successfully woo's the warden's daughter, and gets out in time to publish his story before anyone else does. His career is off to a tremendous start.
The Deadly Game
FBI Agent
A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble foes! They may have been invisible but their accents and billing names von Morhart, William Vaughn (William von Brincken already hiding under another name before hostilities were formally declared), Frederick Gierman and Walter Bonn---provide clues aplenty as to their country of origin and paymaster.
Kitty Foyle
Nightclub Waiter #2 (uncredited)
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
Remedy for Riches
Second Hotel Clerk
A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
The Golden Fleecing
Aide (uncredited)
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
We Who Are Young
Drunk (uncredited)
A man violates company policy by getting married.
Double or Nothing
The King (uncredited)
In this Broadway Brevities short, a stunt double is hit on the head and imagines himself in a series of movie scenes with doubles for various stars.
Fast and Furious
Man Sweating in Elevator (uncredited)
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Professor Beware
Hobo
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Hot Water
Barber's Customer (uncredited)
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
Stars Over Arizona
Doc
When the Governor gets Dawson to go after Ace Carter and his gang, Dawson gets him to release four prisoners into his custody. Arriving in town, Carter frames Dawson for murder and his stooge Judge sentences him to be hung. The four ex-convicts arrive in time to save Dawson but one of the four is a double-crosser and this means more trouble for Dawson.
Topper
Hen-Pecked Motorist (uncredited)
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.
Step Lively, Jeeves!
Bartender (uncredited)
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
Woman Chases Man
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.
Top of the Town
Comedy Waiter
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
By Your Leave
Bartender
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
The Merry Widow
Orthodox Priest (uncredited)
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Murder on the Blackboard
Detective McTeague
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.
Trimmed in Furs
The Caretaker
Bill's wife insists that he get her a fur coat, and since he cannot afford to buy one, he goes on a hunting trip, hoping to capture some furs himself. Meanwhile, a temperamental actress, needing a rest for her nerves, has made plans to visit the same hunting lodge where Bill will be staying. They and several others meet at the lodge, resulting in chaos and confusion.
Ace of Aces
Ground Crewman (uncredited)
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.
Bed of Roses
Salesman
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.
Ladies of the Jury
Jury Room Officer Wilbur (uncredited)
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.
Men of Chance
One of Johnny's Bookies
A gambler falls for a fake countess.
Consolation Marriage
Dog Owner (uncredited)
A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.
Are These Our Children?
Member of Prosecuting Attorney's Staff
A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, falling in with the wrong crowd and finally finding himself on trial for murder committed during a robbery.
Traveling Husbands
Walter
A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.