John Howard
Nacimiento : 1913-04-14, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Muerte : 1995-02-19
Historia
John Howard (born John Richard Cox Jr.) was an American screen and television actor. He made his movie debut in a bit part in Paramount's One Hour Late (1934) before moving up the Hollywood ladder to featured parts and ultimately landing his own series, the Bulldog Drummond mysteries. Decades later, when offers of work began to slow down, Howard went into teaching.
Grocery Store Owner
Teenagers at a correctional facility devise a plan to rob an armored van.
Dr. Thomas
After her husband dies, a woman begins to have a nervous breakdown and is consoled by her younger sister. Soon, however, other members of the family begin to suspect the younger woman's motives.
George
Después de la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865), Buck (Poitier), un sargento de caballería del ejército de la Unión, recorre la frontera de Colorado buscando esclavos para liberarlos, acompañado por una mujer y un maestro de la estafa: "El Predicador". Durante el viaje son atacados por un grupo de cazadores de recompensas que quieren devolver los esclavos a sus antiguos amos.
Ernest Bushnell
Foreign agents are after a substance called "laser rubies" that can power a killer laser beam. Government agents are dispatched to protect the rubies and eliminate the foreign agents.
Dr. James
A futuristic underwater sea-lab is having problems with a UFO that's parked between them and a nearby deep ocean trench. As they investigate, they attract the unwanted attention of a dangerous creature who puts the scientists and crew in danger.
Mayor Wood
Las nuevas aventuras de Moochie Morgan, quien ahora quiere jugar en la Liga de fútbol de Warner Pop, por desgracia, a fin de cumplir con el requisito de 60 libras de peso para unirse a la categoria mas pequeña existente en la ciudad para esta Liga, Moochie debe ganar cinco libras. Moochie hace todo lo posible para aumentar de peso, pero no lo consigu. Su peso actual, le calificaría para la clase "Pee Wee", pero no hay este equipo en su ciudad por lo que su papá Monty y papá de su mejor amigo, Fred Preston, deciden iniciar ese equipo para todos los niños más pequeños en su área. Pero pronto hay rivalidades cuando el hijo mimado del alcalde de la ciudad, exige la atención. A continuación, se desarrolla otra crisis, uno de carácter político: "The Peewees vs Ayuntamiento"
Dan Matthews
Un científico que trabaja en América del Sur desarrolla un hongo que come humanos.
Howard Rice
Dan Roman, un veterano piloto con un trágico pasado, se tendrá que hacer cargo de un avión de pasajeros que atraviesa el Pacífico y se encuentra en graves dificultades.
Josh Blake
Un mafioso fue condenado a prisión por matar a su mujer. Sin embargo, ella no murió, sino que huyó a México, donde crió a su hija. Cuando el gángster sale de la cárcel, la busca para cumplir su venganza.
John Stafford
The wealthy owner of a modeling agency keeps a new student in the high life, unaware that she and a recently released convict share a criminal and personal history.
Dr. Ross Williams
Un científico decide probar una vacuna contra una grave enfermedad, realizada con isótopos radioactivos, aplicándosela a unos presidiarios, con la promesa de que serán puestos en libertad tras el experimento. Desgraciadamente, los efectos de la vacuna son imprevisibles y provocan los instintos asesinos de uno de ellos, el cuál mata a un compañero. Aún así, el doctor hará todo lo posible por continuar con el experimento, a pesar de la oposición del gobierno.
Bill Travis
A federal agent and his partner track uranium-ore hijackers with radar.
Blake Randolph
John Breen es un soldado de Kentucky que regresa desde Nueva Orleans a su tierra. En Alabama, conoce y se enamora de Fleurette De Marchand, hija de un general francés, quien se opone a la relación. John comienza a buscar trabajo en la ciudad y descubre que existe un plan para echar de Alabama a la comunidad francesa y acabar con el padre de su amada.
William Hilton
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
Nigel Lawrence
Cecily Harrington, luchando por una pequeña asignación, gana una fortuna en la lotería. En lugar de casarse con su novio, decide emprender un viaje. Un extraño, Manuel Cortez, viene a alquilar su casa y ella se enamora de él. Se casan y se van de luna de miel a una mansión aislada, sin percatarse que su flamante marido es un cazafortunas con varias esposas asesinadas en su haber.
Oliver Hammond
La familia de los Hammond sufre una maldición, según la cual un monstruo inmortal acecha a la familia y va acabando con ellos de forma paulatina. Cuando uno de los miembros es atacado, junto a una ayudante de trabajo, un inspector de Scotland Yard, acompañado de su alocada ayudante femenina, acudirá a investigar.
Merrill Hammond
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
Commander Chris Warren
On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and sinks an American yacht and the single survivor, Sue Curry, is rescued by an American submarine, the "Sea Serpent", commanded by Commander Chris Warren. He hears her story and attempts to radio a warning to Pearl Harbor. Yamanada, hearing the signals, orders the airlines jammed, and then sends his son into the air to sink the sub. The attack fails, after the sub makes a crash dive, but they fail in their warning attempts. The next morning, December 7th, the men on the sub hear the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and devise a desperate plan to sink the Japanese carrier by letting the carrier know their position. The carrier comes in search of the submarine.
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
Greg Sherman
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
Self
Fifth film in the Hedda Hopper documentary series.
Tommy Hopkins
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Frederic Osborne Junior
Una actriz famosa tiene que ganarse a una familia ya hecha cuando se casa con un magnate naviero.
Jimmy Rupert
A crook with big feet buys shoes that are too tight from a salesman, then decides to use the store as a front for illegal gambling.
Richard Russell
El profesor Gibbs inventa una máquina que puede hacer invisible a la gente, y la usa con Kitty Carroll, una atractiva y aventurera modelo. Pero unos gansters roban la máquina para su jefe, así que tendrán que enfrentarse a la mujer invisible.
Gil Sawyer
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Jim Kingston aka Pecos Kid
Unos rangers de Texas de la decada de 1930 son llamados al rancho de White Sage. Ellos se las arreglan para introducir a uno de sus agentes en la banda, haciéndoles pensar que él es Pecos Kid quien está en fuga.
George Kittredge
Historias de Filadelfia es una comedia protagonizada por Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn y James Stewart. Tracy Lord (Katherine Hepburn) es idolatrada por todo el mundo y debe mantener a su siniestro ex-marido, un periodista alcohólico, y su futuro marido contentos.
Oliver Clark
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
Hal Scott
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
John Wesley Beaven
Adaptación de una novela de Lloyd C. Douglas ("Sublime obsesión", "La túnica sagrada"), cuyos protagonistas son médicos que tienen concepciones contrapuestas de su profesión: unos son idealistas, y otros materialistas.
Mr. Nelson
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
Capt. Hugh C. Drummond
Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way before they reach the altar.
John Keefe
A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.
Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is complicating the situation involving a series of deaths and an elusive murderer.
Captain Hugh C. Drummond
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
Captain Hugh Chesterton 'Bulldog' Drummond
Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.
Cadet Brandon Culpepper
Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.
Dr. Roi Conrad
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.
William Jordan
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
Jimmy James
Una cantante de cabaret intenta dar un salto cualitativo y convertirse en una diva de la ópera.
Capt. Hugh Chesterton 'Bulldog' Drummond
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
Chuck Baldwin
Dos jugadores de fútbol americano que estudian en la academia naval compiten por los favores de la misma chica.
John Howard
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment.
Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond
Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to rescue her from the kidnappers.
Ardinger Burnside
Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit.
Dr. Paul Martin
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
George Conway
Varios pasajeros, entre los que se encuentra un joven diplomático inglés, sobreviven a un accidente aéreo en el Himalaya. Cuando creen que la muerte es inevitable, son rescatados por los habitantes de Shangri-La, una idílica y utópica comunidad que vive oculta en el Tíbet. Mientras la II Guerra Mundial amenaza al mundo, ellos descubrirán un lugar donde la gente vive feliz y sin envejecer.
Rodney Garfield
To boost the ratings of a kiddie show, the host agrees to take guardianship of of a bratty boy who has a lovely older sister.
Paul Darnley
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
Lt. Dan Conlon
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly exceptional aerial sequences and Farmer's early performance.
Freddie Scott
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law.
Kenneth 'Buzz' Jones
Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate.
Eddie Warren
A broadcasting musical.
Duncan Haley
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in the Battle of Manila Bay under Adm. Dewey during the Spanish-American War, when he commanded the USS Congress. That ship, now decommissioned and docked in Annapolis harbor, is--unknown to Fitzhugh--about to be towed out to sea to be used for target practice. When Fitzhugh finds this out, he sets out to either save his beloved vessel or "go down with his ship".
Trooper Carney
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.