John

John "Skins" Miller

Nacimiento : 1890-11-06, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Muerte : 1956-07-15

Perfil

John

Películas

The Raging Tide
A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To escape, he stows away on a fishing boat. At sea, skipper Hamil Linder receives Bruno kindly, teaching him fishing; Bruno enlists Hamil's wayward son Carl to tend his slot machines. Then Carl takes an interest in Bruno's girl Connie. Climax in a storm at sea.
El crepúsculo de los dioses
Hog-Eye Electrician (uncredited)
Joe Gillis es un joven escritor de segunda fila que, acosado por sus acreedores, se refugia casualmente en la mansión de Norma Desmond, antigua estrella del cine mudo, que vive fuera de la realidad, acompañada únicamente de su fiel criado Max. A partir de ese momento, la actriz pretende que Joe corrija un guión que ella ha escrito y que va a significar su regreso al cine.
El político
Drunk at Football Game (Uncredited)
Willi Stark (Broderick Crawford), un hombre honrado y valiente, sufre una transformación el día que decide entrar en política y descubre que todo es juego sucio. Tras ser elegido gobernador, olvidando sus principios, lo primero que hace es apoderarse de la prensa y la radio. Convertido en un ser corrupto hará cuanto esté en su mano para permanecer en el poder.
Top o' the Morning
Dowdler
La famosa Piedra de Blarney que se encontraba en el Castillo de Blarney, en Irlanda, ha sido robada. Joe Mulqueen, un investigador de seguros de Nueva York, que también es cantante, viaja al pueblo a investigar el robo, y se enamora de la hermosa hija del sargento de policía McNaughton.
Sorrowful Jones
Head Telephone Man (uncredited)
Un padre deja a su hija en manos de Sorrowful Jones mientras acude a las apuestas de caballos. Cuando regresa, se entera de que el cuidado de la niña interfiere con su estilo de vida. Sorrowful, por su parte, debe escapar de unos gangsters.
Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo
Skins / Idiot #1 (uncredited)
Un golpe en la cabeza hace que el mecánico Hank Martin sea transportado desde 1912 a la Edad Media, concretamente a la época del Rey Arturo y los Caballeros de la Mesa Redonda. Musical de la Paramount basado en la obra de Mark Twain.
El abrazo de la muerte
Midget (as John Skins Miller)
Un olvidado de la bienaventura (Burt Lancaster) regresa a la ciudad natal, donde busca sin quererlo a su exposa (Yvonne de Carlo), que ahora se halla saliendo con un conocido gángster (Dan Duryea). La manipulativa mujer y el criminal se relamen cuando Lancaster propone el gran golpe: asaltar el carro blindado que él mismo va a conducir..
El tiempo de tu vida
Tippler
Adaptación de una obra teatral. Un extraño cliente de un bar (James Cagney), una especie de filósofo e insaciable bebedor de caro champagne, al que le gusta escuchar viejas canciones en la gramola del bar, se hace amigo de Morris, un chico muy formal y un poco retrasado, que se ocupa de hacer todos los recados que Cagney le encarga: apostar a los caballos, recoger juguetes de niños y comprarse goma de mascar...
Perdidos en un Harem
Sousaphonist (uncredited)
Dos torpes magos ayudan a un príncipe del Medio Oriente a recuperar su legítimo trono de su tío despótico.
The Navy Way
Recruit Pop Lacy
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
Johnny Come Lately
Tramp
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died.
Se necesitan maridos
Drunken Bricklayer
Eddie Johnson va a Coney Island para encontrarse con Joe Rocco. Eddie está decidido a obtener una participación en el nuevo local de Joe, en el que actúa Kate Farley. Eddie convence a un amigo para convertir su local en un "harén turco" con bailarinas. Su idea es un éxito y aleja a los clientes de Joe. Eddie envía a sus matones a destruir el local
Su última danza
Truck Driver (Uncredited)
Pinks es un hombre humilde, todo corazón, que vive única y exclusivamente para complacer a la mujer de la que está locamente enamorado. Sin embargo, ella está tan acostumbrada al lujo que es incapaz de agradecer los desesperados esfuerzos que él hace por ella.
Devil Pays Off
Flop-House Night Clerk
Chris Waring es un investigador del gobierno que trata de reunir las pruebas necesarias para condenar a un magnate naviero.
Legión de tiradores
Station Attendant (uncredited)
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.
Tres hombres de Texas
Herman
Dos 'rangers' de Texas acuden en ayuda de un colega ahora establecido en California. De esta manera matarán dos pájaros de un tiro, ya que persiguen a un forajido que huye hacia California. Allí se encontrarán con una banda de malhechores que roban grandes propiedades.
King of the Lumberjacks
'Cooky', the Camp Cook
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
El regreso del Doctor X
Newspaper Vendor (uncredited)
Una actriz teatral es asesinada, por lo que un reportero da de inmediato la primicia en su periódico; sin embargo, al día siguiente aparece aquella con vida para desmentirlo todo. El extraño hecho despierta la curiosidad del citado periodista que, junto con un joven médico, se pone a investigar, descubriendo que uno de los implicados es el reputado Dr. Flegg, cuyo asistente es el extraño y frío Doctor X...
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
San Francisco Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Heritage of the Desert
Postmaster John Twerk
John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about to marry Snap Thornton to keep a promise made by her father. She runs away on her wedding day but is captured and held hostage by outlaw Henry Holderness. John, the Naabs and fellow ranchers rush to her rescue.
The Jury's Secret
Juror Simms
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Every Day's a Holiday
Quartet member
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.
Los peligros de la gloria
Dancer in Drag in 'Deck Number' (as Skins Miller)
Terry Rooney (Cagney), líder de una banda de música de Nueva York, se marcha a Hollywood, donde le han ofrecido un contrato para hacer una película. Allí descubre los entresijos de cómo se moldea a los actores, de cómo se les maneja. Sin embargo, Terry no puede soportarlo y huye con su mujer, Riota. El productor de la película no presta importancia al hecho hasta que la película es estrenada y tiene un éxito absoluto. En poco tiempo, Terry se convierte en una estrella, pero eso también le traerá problemas, sobre todo en el plano personal.
Sophie Lang Goes West
Passenger
Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California only to get into more trouble.
The Devil's Saddle Legion
Spooks Wilkins
Tal is in a lot of trouble. Seems that his father has been murdered while he was in Montana and they put the blame on him. Also, he has been framed and sentenced to 10 years hard labor for another murder which he did not do. The crooks need convict labor to build the dam so they convict innocent people for a pool of cheap labor. But Karan believes that Tal, using the name Smith J. Brown, could not be a killer. Unknown to her, her step brother, Hub, is part of the gang.
Internes Can't Take Money
Weasel (uncredited)
Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.
We Who Are About to Die
Macy
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Arizona Mahoney
Human Bullet Applicant (uncredited)
When Sue Bixby becomes his new boss, stagecoach robber Talbot reforms and goes after her rustled cattle.
San Francisco
Man on Stretcher (uncredited)
La cantante de ópera Mary Blake huye de la miseria y busca cobijo en Blackie Norton, un empresario de San Francisco que le proporciona trabajo. Inevitablemente, surge una estrecha relación entre ambos que es desaprobada por el sacerdote Mullin. Mientras tanto, nos aproximamos a la fatídica fecha del 18 de abril de 1906, cuando un terremoto arrasó la ciudad y provocó más de 3.000 muertos.
You May Be Next!
Man with Duck Act (uncredited)
Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
It's in the Air
Skinny (uncredited)
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
Maybe It's Love
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Man in Irish's Store (uncredited)
Un pintor de retratos se reúne con un antiguo amor, cuando las inminentes memorias de ésta amenazan su carrera política.
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Sound Effects Man in Grand Hotel Spoof (uncredited)
Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
La viuda alegre
Drunken Man (uncredited)
Sonia es una viuda, inmensamente rica, de Marshovia, pequeño país centro europeo del que controla la mitad de la riqueza. El país depende de que ella gaste su dinero en él, así que, cuando se traslada a París porque no logra encontrar marido, el rey envía al Conde Danilo a cortejarla y traerla de vuelta. Si no lo consigue, se le formará consejo de guerra.
Desirable
Dan - Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Un hombre conoce a la hija de su amante y se enamora de ella.
Gift of Gab
Stooge (uncredited)
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
La alegría de vivir
Hill-Billy
El presidente Roosevelt nombra nuevo Secretario de Diversiones a un productor teatral, con el fin de levantar los ánimos del pueblo estadounidense. El nuevo secretario pronto se harta de los grupos de presión que intentan destruir su departamento.
Son of a Sailor
Sailor (uncredited)
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
Don't Bet on Love
Bigsby (uncredited)
A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.
Gloria y hambre
Angry Laundry Worker (uncredited)
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.
Aeropuerto Central
Hotel Desk Clerk #2 (uncredited)
El aviador Jim Blaine y su hermano Neil no sólo son rivales en sus temerarios vuelos, sino que además luchan por el amor de la paracaidista Jill Collins.
The Conquerors
Skins (uncredited)
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
The Purchase Price
Accordion Player Skins (uncredited)
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.