Michael Whalen

Michael Whalen

Birth : 1902-06-30, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA

Death : 1974-04-14

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Michael Whalen

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Missile to the Moon
Dirk Green
Two escaped convicts are found hiding in a rocketship built by a renegade inventor, who forces them to become the crew for a trip to the Moon. Also on board, as inadvertent stowaways, are his assistant and his secretary; and none of them are aware that the inventor is actually a Lunarian explorer sent to Earth by the dying Lunar civilization and the only remaining male member of that civilization.
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
Prof. King
A marine biologist and a government agent investigate mysterious deaths and rumors of a sea monster in a secluded ocean cove, and find themselves involved with a marine biology professor conducting secretive experiments, international spies trying to steal his secrets, a radioactive light on the sea bottom, and the malevolent thing which guards it.
Outlaw Treasure
Maj. Cooper
When two outlaw gangs team up to rob gold shipments, the U.s. Army sends their ace-troubleshooter, Dan Parker, to the area. Sam Casey, the mystery-man behind the gangs, kills Parker's father, and this induces his sweetheart, Rita Starr, to side with the law-and-order faction. An attempt by Casey to kill Rita is foiled by Parker, which leads to a widespread gun-battle. Written by Les Adams
The Silver Star
Shakespeare
A third generation deputy sheriff doubts whether or not he has the guts for the job that killed both his father and grandfather. His doubts are re-enforced when three vicious gunmen arrive in town. From the original 35mm widescreen negative.
Waco
Banker Barnes
After killing a man in self defense over a poker game, Wild Bill Elliott turns outlaw in order to escape a lynch mob.
G.I. Jane
James Simpkins
A civilian, ordered to report to his draft board, slips off into a dream about the army life ahead of him. He is assigned to a remote desert post where the soldiers crave female companionship. He forges orders that brings a platoon of WACs who are forbidden to fraternize with the soldiers.
According to Mrs. Hoyle
Rev. Haverford
A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.
Kentucky Jubilee
Touhy
A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped.
Mask of the Dragon
Maj. Clinton
A private eye (Richard Travis) and his girlfriend (Sheila Ryan) avenge his buddy, stabbed over a jade dragon.
Fingerprints Don't Lie
Police Commissioner Frank Kelso
A fingerprint expert (Richard Travis) figures out who killed the mayor.
King of the Bullwhip
Thurman
A whip-cracking federal marshal goes under cover as a masked bandit to ferret out a gold-bullion thief.
Cody of the Pony Express
Maj. Walker (uncredited)
Buffalo Bill Cody battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer.
Everybody's Dancin'
Mr. London
Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business. Several country-western stars come to his rescue by agreeing to appear on a TV special to be broadcast from his club.
Sarumba
SeƱor Valdez
Sailor meets singer in Cuba. He's due to ship out, but hits it off with her, so he sticks around. Trouble brewing on many fronts - singer's best friend doesn't like the sailor, and singer has another suitor anyway. Rich guy takes her to all the fancy Cuban sports events - jai-alai, horse racing. Much more glamorous than spending time with Sailor. Can he win her over before he gets in trouble for letting his ship sail without him?
Tough Assignment
'Hutch' Hutchison
A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking!
Treasure of Monte Cristo
Lt. Michael Perry
A San Francisco lawyer uses a woman to lure a merchant seaman worth a legendary fortune.
Sky Liner
Ben Howard
Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!
Wild Weed
Jonathan Treanor
A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
Omoo-Omoo the Shark God
'Chips'
The curse of a shark god follows a group of people who have violated a sacred jungle idol.
Batman and Robin
Private Investigator Dunne [Chs. 2, 9, 12]
This 15-chapter serial pits Batman and Robin against The Wizard, who uses a device that allows him to control machinery to hold the city hostage.
Son of a Badman
Doc Jarvis
Lash and Fuzzy come to town to unmask the mysterious outlaw kingpin, El Sombre.
Highway 13
Frank Denton
Hank Wilson is a driver for a truck for a big transportation company which is in financial straits. He is in love with Doris Lacy, a waitress at the truck-stop where the company has its truck fleet serviced. Frequent accidents near the place leads the company to hire a private detective to investigate, and when the detective is murdered Hank is arrested as a suspect. The insurance company that covers the fleet has him released and he is sent back to work with instructions to investigate the accidents on his own. The trail leads to the uncle of Doris, and one of the part-owners of the company.
Shep Comes Home
'Chance' Martin
Little Larry Havens, whose father died in WWII, runs away from home to keep from being separated from "Shep," his father's dog. In Arizona, he is befriended by a kindly Mexican, Manuel Ortiz, who he is able to repay in time, with the aid of Sheriff "Cap" Weatherby, when Ortiz is suspected of crimes committed by local gangsters. "Shep" is instrumental in saving Ortiz from a lynching, and Larry, "Shep" and Ortiz all find a home with a couple they have befriended.
Parole, Inc.
Kid Redmond
A federal agent's life is in danger when he's exposed while investigating a parole scheme.
Thunder in the Pines
Pete
Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.
Blonde Ice
Stanley Mason, Attorney
A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
Lance Carter
The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.
Tahiti Honey
Lt. John Barton
The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the Nazis. Suzette "Suzie" Durand (Simone Simon). a French-American girl singing in a nightclub is consumed with a desire to go to the United States. Things go from bad to worse for the band,. and they are faced with the necessity of either taking a girl singer into the group,which they all regard as bad luck, or starving. The band insists that she be dropped as soon as they can earn enough to catch a bot home. But Mickey falls in love with Suzie, and smuggles her on board the ship.
The Dawn Express
Robert Norton
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
I'll Sell My Life
Mordecai Breen
A woman hoping to raise cash to pay for an operation to restore her blind brother's eyesight finds herself implicated in a nightclub murder.
Sign of the Wolf
Rod Freeman
Two German shepherds and their mistress (Grace Bradley) crash-land in Canada by a fox breeder's (Michael Whalen) farm.
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Dr. James Rogers
The mysteriously ill John Braun makes a new will, leaving out his daughter Barbara, over the protests of his wife. The trouble began when the daughter wanted to marry Mr. Braun's doctor, James Rogers. Mrs. Braun asks Inspector Queen to help find the long-missing Barbara. The inspector's son, Ellery, works on the case. He goes to a home frequently visited by Dr. Rogers where the bell is answered by Nikki Porter who Ellery mistakes for Barbara and insists she return to the Braun home. Nikki does, to protect Barbara, and a short time later finds herself alone in a room outside Braun's bedroom. She finds him dead - his throat cut. No weapons are found and the door to the room where Nikki had been is locked, and she is suspected. Ellery hides Nikki in his apartment. Braun's body, sent for an autopsy, disappears and in its place is a life-sized statue of the dead man.
They Asked For It
Howard Adams
In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an old hermit who lived on the fringe of town.
Outside These Walls
Dan Sparling
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
Inside Story
Barney Callahan
A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm..
Pardon Our Nerve
Dick Malone
Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career.
The Mysterious Miss X
Keith Neville
After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.
While New York Sleeps
Barney Callahan
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
Time Out for Murder
Barney Callahan
A bank runner is accused of killing a woman for whom he deposited a large amount. Reporter and bank official investigate.
Speed to Burn
Matt Kerry
Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.
Island in the Sky
Michael Fraser
A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.
Walking Down Broadway
Peter Claybourne
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
Change of Heart
Anthony Murdock
While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrapped up in his business and rants a lot about how much time his wife spends playing gold, thereby neglecting their home and him. Carol teams up with golfer Phillip Reeves and they win a tournament together, and Reeves becomes infatuated with Carol. Anthony rants some more and Carol packs up and starts the divorce proceedings. Anthony fights back by taking up golf himself.
Wee Willie Winkie
Lt. Brandes aka 'Coppy'
In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.
Time Out for Romance
Bob Reynolds
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Woman-Wise
Tracey Browne
A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
Career Woman
Barry Conant
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
The Man I Marry
Ken Durkin
A wealthy young man writes a play under a different name to prove to his overbearing mother that he can succeed on his own.
Sing, Baby, Sing
Ted Blake
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
Poor Little Rich Girl
Richard Barry
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.
White Fang
Gordon Weedon Scott
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
The Country Doctor
Tony Luke
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
Song and Dance Man
Alan Davis
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
Professional Soldier
George Foster
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.