Reginald Simpson

Reginald Simpson

Birth : 1896-01-01, England, UK

Death : 1964-11-02

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Reginald Simpson

Movies

Ask Any Girl
Information Clerk (uncredited)
Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-day New York. After losing her suitcase at Penn Station, being kicked out by her roommate, and changing bosses because her boss made a pass at her, she finds herself looking for work at a Manhattan motivational research agency run by punctilious Miles Doughton and his playboy brother, Evan.
High Society
Lawrence (Uncle Willie's Butler) (uncredited)
Childhood friends Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven got married and quickly divorced. Now Tracy is about to marry again, this time to a shrewd social-climbing businessman. C.K. still loves her. Spy magazine blackmails Tracy's family by threatening to reveal her playboy father's exploits if not allowed to cover the wedding. A remake of the 1940 rom com The Philadelphia Story.
A Star Is Born
Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
The Bad and the Beautiful
Poker Player (uncredited)
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
My Favorite Brunette
Assistant Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office, Ronnie is asked by the irresistible Baroness Montay to find the missing Baron. There follow confusing but sinister doings in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium, with every plot twist a parody of thriller cliches.
Undercurrent
Party Guest (uncredited)
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Photographer (uncredited)
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
They Were Expendable
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.
Not a Ladies' Man
Salesman (uncredited)
A recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher.
This Time for Keeps
Man
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
One Foot in Heaven
Candy Butcher (uncredited)
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Mr. Gorman
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
Mandrake the Magician
Parsons
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
Cafe Society
Guest
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
Juvenile Court
Reporter (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.
Who Goes Next?
Writer
During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.
Night Club Scandal
Secretary
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....
Artists & Models
G-Man (uncredited)
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
Devil's Playground
Sailor
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.
Pepper
Chauffeur
Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take her gang to Coney Island and prevents his daughter from marrying a phony aristocrat.
36 Hours to Kill
Traveler
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
The Defense Rests
Minor Role
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
Bird of Paradise
O'Fallon
When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of Johnny and Luana. Though Luana is promised to another man, Johnny whisks her away, and for a brief time the lovers live very happily together. But, when a local volcano threatens their lives, Luana knows that she must sacrifice herself to the volcanic gods in order to save her island.
The Honor of the Press
Larry Grayson, Reporter
Cub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and the owner of the paper blames the police for not rounding up the crooks. Daniel discovers that a coded message in the newspaper's editor's box tips the crooks about each robbery.
The Innocents of Chicago
Theatre Play
A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane