Nick Copeland

Movies

New Moon
Bondsman
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
Edison, the Man
Reporter
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.
Convicted Woman
Bus Starter (uncredited)
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
The Fatal Hour
The Crank Informant
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
City of Chance
Dealer
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Brakeman
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
The Escape
Chummy Miller
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
Mooching Through Georgia
Union Soldier
Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
Tell No Tales
Nick - Arno's Doorman (uncredited)
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
Ex-Champ
Official
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
Sergeant Madden
Hospital Visitor
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Youth Takes a Fling
Minor Role
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
Juvenile Court
Drunk (uncredited)
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
You Can't Take It with You
Barber (uncredited)
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
The Main Event
Jake
FBI agent Mac Richards takes his girlfriend, Helen Phillips, to a world championship boxing match only to learn that the event has been canceled because the titleholder has been kidnapped. Mac is entrusted with the ransom money, but the kidnappers discover that his fellow agents have surrounded the train station locker where the money was to be dropped and order the champ's manager to have the money delivered by an usher to a different location. With Helen disguised as the usher and Mac driving a cab, the pair set off to deliver the money. The gang isn't taking any chances, though - they waylay the cab and take both the ransom money and Helen to their hideout. Now Mac and his fellow agents must rescue both the champ and his sweetheart before they come to harm.
True Confession
Guard (uncredited)
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
Murder in Greenwich Village
Ship's Officer
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.
It Can't Last Forever
Announcer
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
Midnight Madonna
Ed Kerrigan
A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and is underhandedly taken by her estranged father.
Lodge Night
Jake
Andy gets into hot water because of his frequent lodge meetings.
Devil's Playground
Ticket Taker
A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.
Theodora Goes Wild
Reporter (uncredited)
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
Legion of Terror
Lefty (as Nicholas Copeland)
Two newly-appointed postal inspectors, Frank Marshall and 'Slim" Hewitt, set out to track down the sender of a time-bomb to a U. S. Senator and, during their investigation, run across a hooded organization that is terrorizing an American city. They also meet Don Foster, who is loud in his condemnation of the terrorists, and his sister, Nancy, who fears for her brother's life.
Treachery Rides the Range
Neal
The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just signed a big contract for furs and Buffalo meat so they want the herds. The only way they can get them is to rile the Indians up enough to go on the warpath and break the treaty. After the trouble starts, the Indians get the Colonel's daughter and hold her prisoner. Written by Tony Fontana
Road Gang
Second Guard at Farm (uncredited)
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
Don't Gamble with Love
Gambler
Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to start a family wife feels the need to change their situation. Situation is changed and husband gets a new job and then a promotion but is tricked into a bad business deal and wants to go back to his old life.
Man Hunt
Blackie
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Nestor - Policeman and Driver
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
Man of Iron
Factory Worker
A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.
The Calling of Dan Matthews
Waiter (uncredited)
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
Broadway Hostess
Andy (uncredited)
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Carnival Barker
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.
The Goose and the Gander
Detective Mike (uncredited)
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
Stranded
Bridge Worker at Meeting (uncredited)
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
'G' Men
G-Man with Farrell (uncredited)
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
Mary Jane's Pa
Nick - Marvin's Campaign Worker
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
Go Into Your Dance
Nick
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
While the Patient Slept
Detective Davis aka Johnson (uncredited)
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
The Best Man Wins
Dance Hall Proprietor
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
The Payoff
Reporter (uncredited)
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
Murder in the Clouds
Accomplice
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
I Sell Anything
Spectator (uncredited)
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
Student Tour
Waiter
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Chained
Roy (uncredited)
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
The Defense Rests
Minor Role
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
The Circus Clown
Husband in Audience
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
A Man's Game
T.W. Jackson
During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up in an embezzlement scheme.
The Merry Frinks
Bert (uncredited)
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
The Thin Man
Reporter (uncredited)
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Twentieth Century
Treasurer (uncredited)
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
Manhattan Love Song
Al Kingston
After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they are unable to pay. They're forced to let their former employees live in their luxury apartment in lieu of paying the money they owe them.
A Fool's Advice
Copeland
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
Flying High
Aviator with the Jokester (uncredited)
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
The Doorway to Hell
The Midget's Henchman (uncredited)
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.