Dan Riss

Dan Riss

Birth : 1910-03-22,

Death : 1970-08-28

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Dan Riss

Movies

The Story on Page One
Court Clerk (uncredited)
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.
Badman's Country
Marshal McAfee
Pat Garrett arrives in Abilene where he catches five of Butch Cassidy's gang. He calls in Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson and they learn there is a half million dollar shipment of money arriving by train and Cassidy is amassing enough men to take it.
Man on Fire
Mack
Bitter over their divorce, a wealthy businessman (Bing Crosby in a rare non-singing, unsympathetic role) prevents his ex-wife from seeing their child. She then takes him to custody court, and a judge tries to determine what will be best for the child.
Johnny Concho
Judge Earl Tyler
In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!
The Price of Fear
Jim Walsh
A co-owner of a race track goes on the run after witnessing something he shouldn't have at the track.
Allen in Movieland
Self - Drama Coach
TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title role in "The Benny Goodman Story."
Three Young Texans
Sheriff Dan Carter
A Texan robs a train in an effort to prevent his father from committing the crime. A young girl attempts to help him after learning about the theft. A cowboy friend demands a share of the money.
The Miami Story
Frank Alton
Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city.
The Yellow Tomahawk
Sgt. Bandini
When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings of a scout go unheeded.
Riders to the Stars
Dr. Frank Werner
Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world
Vice Squad
Lt. Bob Imlay
A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.
Man in the Dark
Jawald
A prisoner undergoes experimental brain surgery in order to get early parole. He released but has no memories. Things get dangerous when a group of thugs go after him in search of loot he hid before his amnesia.
Operation Secret
Sergeant
After assisting the French Underground during WWII, an American Officer is later accused of murder and subversive activities by former colleagues. Based on the actual exploits of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz.
Scarlet Angel
Walter Frisby
After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's identity.
Confidence Girl
Lt. Fenton
After successfully swindling thousands of dollars from hapless victims, conflicted con artist Mary (Hillary Brooke) decides to go straight, but her greedy boyfriend and partner, Roger (Tom Conway), convinces her to pull off one final scam before they get married. Written and directed by Andrew L. Stone, this classic crime film finds the police struggling to keep up with the deceptive duo's exceedingly complicated schemes.
Carbine Williams
Jesse Rimmer
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.
Talk About a Stranger
Mr. Taylor, Butcher
Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
Only the Valiant
Lt. Jerry Winters
Only the Valiant, a classic western adventure, based on a novel by Charles Marquis Warren, the film tells the story of a Cavalry officer who volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apaches in an effort to prove his loyalty to his men and the woman he loves.
The Enforcer
Mayor (uncredited)
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
Wyoming Mail
George Armstrong
In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in their pay. Prizefighter Steve Davis, a former army intelligence man, is hired to track down the gang and save the Territorial Mail Service. Steve goes undercover in territorial prison, leans Morse Code from a fellow prisoner, breaks jail, infiltrates the gang...and finds time to romance dance-hall singer Mary, who proves to have hidden depths...
The Killer That Stalked New York
Skrip
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.
The Screen Writer
The Screen Writer
This short film focuses on the job of the Hollywood screenwriter.
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
District Attorney
Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.
Panic in the Streets
Neff - Newspaper Reporter
One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. The next morning, Dr. Clint Reed of the Public Health Service confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague. To prevent a catastrophic epidemic, Clint must find and inoculate the killers and their associates, with the reluctant aid of police captain Tom Warren, despite official skepticism, and in total secrecy, lest panic empties the city. Can a doctor turn detective? He has 48 hours to try.
Appointment with Danger
Maury Ahearn
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
Pinky
Mr. Stanley (Wooleys' Attorney) (uncredited)
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Arctic Fury
Director of the Thompson Institute
Based on adventures of Dr. Thomas Barlow in the far north.