Donald Novis

Movies

Guilty Bystander
Johnson
A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.
Down Memory Lane
archive footage
This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo at the end of the film.
Slightly Terrific
Patrick Michael O'Toole
A manufacturer and an impresario (who has promised some young people he will stage their show) are twin brothers causes a lot of confusion when the manufacturer is mistaken for his no-money brother.
Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Don Clark
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
The Policy Girl
Jack Saunders
An insurance salesman persuades his sister to help him meet a radio star so he can sell the celebrity a policy.
The Night Before Christmas
Singer
A narrator sings the opening stanzas of the classic poem while we see the house at rest. Santa lands on the roof, comes down the chimney, and opens his bag. The toys march out and decorate the tree, with the toy soldiers shooting balls from their cannon, a toy airplane stringing a garland like skywriting, and the toy firemen applying snow. A blimp delivers the star to the top. Meanwhile, Santa fills the stockings. His laughter awakens the children, who sneak out. The toys rush to their places, and Santa escapes up the chimney just in time.
Ma's Pride and Joy
Danny O'Brien
This Mack Sennett produced short has Donald Novis playing Danny O'Brien, a young singer whose mother takes him to a talent agent office where she demands that the owners listen to him.
The Big Broadcast
Donald Novis
The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.
This Is the Night
Singing Gondolier (uncredited)
When Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planned trip to Venice, Gerald must invent a wife to cover their tracks. He is then forced to hire a woman to play “his wife” when Stephen insists he and Claire accompany them to Venice.
Flying High
Young Man (uncredited)
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
The Pajama Party
Jimmy
After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion.
Let's Do Things
Music Store Customer, Singer (uncredited)
Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
Monte Carlo
Monsieur Beaucaire in Stage Opera
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
Irish Fantasy
The Groom
An Irish grandfather tells his young grandson stories of his roots, his courtship with his grandmother and love of freedom through stories and song.
Bulldog Drummond
Country Boy
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.