Adrian Morris

Adrian Morris

Nacimiento : 1907-01-12, Mount Vernon, New York, USA

Muerte : 1941-11-30

Perfil

Adrian Morris

Películas

Fly-By-Night
Officer John Prescott
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
Belle Starr
Major Grail's Orderly (uncredited)
Terminada la Guerra Civil norteamericana (1861-1865), las tierras de la familia de Belle Starr (Gene Tierney) han ido a parar a manos de los yanquis. Durante el conflicto, Belle, muy comprometida con la causa sudista, se casó con el líder confederado Sam Starr (Randolph Scott). Una vez concluida la contienda, la hermosa Belle se convierte en una proscrita y se dedica a combatir contra el expolio yanqui de los estados del Sur. (FILMAFFINITY)
Sangre y arena
La Pulga
Después de muchas dificultades, Juan Gallardo (Tyrone Power) se convierte en la primera figura del toreo. A continuación se casa con Carmen (Darnell), su novia de toda la vida. Pero, cuando todo parecía ir bien, Juan conoce a Sol (Hayworth), una joven, bella y frivola aristócrata con la que mantiene una apasionada relación. A partir de entonces comenzará su declive
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Al
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
Navidades en Julio
Tom
Jimmy McDonald, empleado de la Compañía Cafetera Baxter, se niega a casarse con su novia, Betty Casey, hasta que no haya prosperado. Para ver cumplido su sueño, Jimmy, al que le encanta participar en concursos, envía un lema al concurso de la Compañía Cafetera Maxford. Tres de sus amigos deciden gastarle una broma y le mandan un telegrama diciéndole que ha ganado los 25.000 dólares del primer premio. Jimmy, Betty y toda la oficina empiezan a celebrarlo. El señor Baxter piensa que las ideas de Jimmy deben ser buenas y le asciende al departamento de publicidad. Pero aparece el señor Maxford y denuncia a Jimmy... (FILMAFFINITY)
Public Deb No. 1
Guard
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
La venganza de Frank James
Denver Detective (uncredited)
Cuando los periódicos publican la noticia del asesinato de Jesse James, su hermano Frank, que desde hace años vive con una identidad falsa (Ben Wooden), decide abandonar su pacífica vida de granjero para vengar su muerte.
Pier 13
Al Higgins
A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.
Lucky Cisco Kid
Smoketree Charlie
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
Florian
Cpl. Ernst
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
Girl in 313
First Detective
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
Tear Gas Squad
Crusty
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
Las uvas de la ira
Agent
Tom Joad regresa a su hogar tras cumplir condena en prisión, pero la ilusión de volver a ver a los suyos se transforma en frustración al ver cómo los expulsan de sus tierras. Para escapar al hambre y a la pobreza, la familia no tiene más remedio que emprender un larguísimo viaje lleno de penalidades con la esperanza de encontrar una oportunidad en California, la tierra prometida.
Castle on the Hudson
Prisoner (uncredited)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Saloon Brawler
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.
Lo que el viento se llevó
Carpetbagger Orator (uncredited)
Georgia, 1861. En la elegante mansión sureña de Tara, vive Scarlett O'Hara, la joven más bella, caprichosa y egoísta de la región. Ella suspira por el amor de Ashley, pero él está prometido con su prima, la dulce y bondadosa Melanie. Corren todavía tiempos felices en Tara, pero por poco tiempo, porque la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865) está a punto de estallar. En la última fiesta, celebrada antes del comienzo de las hostilidades entre el norte y el sur, Scarlett conoce al simpático, cínico y apuesto Rhett Butler, un vividor arrogante y aventurero, que sólo piensa en sí mismo y que no tiene ninguna intención de participar en el conflicto. Lo que él desea es hacerse rico y conquistar el corazón de la hermosa Scarlett.
$1,000 a Touchdown
Two Ton Terry (uncredited)
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
Chicken Wagon Family
Tough Guy
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
Wall Street Cowboy
Big Joe Gillespie
When his ranch falls on hard times, Cowboy Roy Roger has trouble making his mortgage payment and he takes his song and dance to Wall Street to try to raise cash fast.
Coast Guard
First Expressman (uncredited)
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
6,000 Enemies
Bull Snyder
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.
Es mi hombre
Jim
En Nueva York durante los años 20, una cantante lucha por apartar a su novio de los problemas...
Unión Pacífico
Railwayman (uncredited)
En 1862, durante la Guerra de Secesión, dos empresas rivales comienzan a construir la primera línea de ferrocarril transcontinental que enlace el Atlántico con el Pacífico. Al tiempo narra los amores entre la hija de uno de los ingenieros, Mollie Monahan (Barbara Stanwyck), el agente del gobierno encargado de la seguridad Jeff Butler (Joel McCrea) y el principal saboteador Dick Allen (Robert Preston).
The Return of the Cisco Kid
Deputy Johnson
In Arizona a young woman who's being manipulated by an evil businessman is helped by the Cisco Kid who happens to be there on holiday.
Tail Spin
Repo Man (Uncredited)
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
Ángeles con caras sucias
Blackie
Un sacerdote presencia impotente cómo los niños marginados de su parroquia sucumben a las malas influencias de un criminal que fue compañero suyo de la infancia. Sin embargo, con el tiempo los dos hombres siguieron caminos muy diferentes: uno abrazó el sacerdocio y el otro se convirtió en un gángster.
If I Were King
Colin de Cayeulx
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
You and Me
Knucks
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
Every Day's a Holiday
Henchman
When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she manages to expose the crooked police chief and smooth the path for the reform mayoral candidate.
There Goes the Groom
Eddie - Interne
After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering, until he learns about her gold-digging family.
Radio Patrol
Officer Sam Maloney
About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.
The Woman I Love
Marbot
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
Her Husband Lies
Carwig
J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade's younger brother "Chick" wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman's supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade's hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade's gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now.
Rose Bowl
Doc
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate. They leave behind Cheers Reynolds, who is fond of Paddy, who works in her family's drugstore, but she loves Ossie almost as much as he loves himself. Paddy makes friends with team fullback Dutch Schultz, who accompanies him on vacation, and they arrive back in Bellport just as Ossie is also coming home on break. Florence Taylor is also in town on a film junket. Unknown to any of the others, Paddy and Florence had gone to high school together. Back at school and three years later, Paddy and Dutch learn that their football team could get invited to the coveted Rose Bowl to play against Ossie's team, if it could get enough publicity (pre-BCS days) that would attract a large crowd...
My American Wife
Vincent Cantillon
Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian fighter Lafe Cantillon (Fred Stone). Lafe's social-climbing sister-in-law (Billie Burke) insists that her daughter Mary wed a titled European, Count Ferdinand (Francis Lederer). Much to Lafe's delight, Mary isn't assimilated into Continental high society; instead, she instructs Count Ferdinand in the virtues of good, old-fashioned American democracy. And, of, course, the Count and Lafe become great chums when the "furriner" proves that he can ride a bucking bronco with the best of 'em.
Poppy
Constable Bowman
Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter Poppy.
El bosque petrificado
Ruby
Un grupo de gángsters llega a un bar de carretera en el famoso Bosque Petrificado de Arizona, con el propósito de tomar a los ocupantes como rehenes.
The Fighting Marines
Sgt. Mack McGowan
Corporal Larry Grant and Sergeant "Mac" McGowan, of the United States Marine Corps, are rival for the love of Frances Schiller, but team up to hunt down "The Tiger Shark," a mad, scientific wizard who is holding Sergeant William Schiller, Frances' brother, a prisoner on a wild, jungle island in the Pacific.
3 Kids and a Queen
Federal Man
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Dr. Socrates
Beanie - a Gangster
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
Powdersmoke Range
Deputy Brose Glascow
Three cowboys buy a ranch but have to fight off gunmen to keep it.
Stranded
Rivet Boss (uncredited)
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
La edad indiscreta
Gus
Un editor de libros vive con su mujer y su hijo pequeño, pero ella decide divorciarse y abandona a su familia por un millonario. Algún tiempo después, la ambiciosa mujer intentará conseguir, con la ayuda de su suegra, la custodia del niño.
Contra el imperio del crimen
Accomplice (uncredited)
Un abogado abandona su profesión para convertirse en agente del gobierno con la intención de descubrir al asesino de su mejor amigo. Las primeras investigaciones le conducen hasta un gángster que fue compañero suyo de la infancia. Mientras resuelve el caso, en escena aparece la hija de su jefe, de la que se enamora locamente.
One Frightened Night
Deputy Abner
Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide his money and give each guest a million dollars before the stroke of midnight. When his long-lost granddaughter suddenly arrives, Whyte changes his mind and proclaims that she will receive his entire fortune. A second lady appears at the estate, claiming that she is actually Whyte's granddaughter, Doris Waverly, and the first woman is found murdered in her room! With each guest possessing a motive, the mystery of the killer's identity briskly unfolds through a stirring series of surprises.
Nido de águilas
Randolph Air Field Instructor
Un sargento del ejército anima a su hijo en convertirse en aviador de la escuela de West Point.
The Pursuit of Happiness
Thad Jennings
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
The Big Shakedown
Trigger
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
King for a Night
Crap Shooter
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Wild Boys of the Road
Buggie Maylin (uncredited)
En plena Gran Depresión, dos adolescentes huyen de su casa para no ser una carga para sus familias que se han quedado sin trabajo. El camino será más difícil de lo esperado.
Bureau of Missing Persons
Detective Irish Conlin
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Por el mal camino
Car Owner Refusing to Pay (uncredited)
A Patsy Gargan, un antiguo criminal, sus corruptos compinches políticos le pagan sus servicios nombrándolo inspector de un reformatorio. Al principio no muestra ningún interés por la escuela, pero la simpatía que siente por los niños que son víctimas de abusos y maltrato por parte del despiadado director y sus matones, lo empuja a aceptar el trabajo.
Mi chica y yo
Allen
Un policía y una camarera se enamoran; el único problema es que él tendrá que ayudar y proteger a la hermana de su novia, que está liada con un gángster.
The Age for Love
Jeff Aldrich
A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.