Archie Twitchell

Nacimiento : 1906-11-28,

Muerte : 1957-01-31

Perfil

Archie Twitchell

Películas

Ilegal
Mr. Manning
Después de enviar a un hombre inocente a la silla eléctrica, un agresivo abogado deja su trabajo en la fiscalía, vuelve a beber y comienza a ejercer como abogado defensor de una nueva y deshonrosa clientela.
El cazador de recompensas
Harrison
Jim Kipp (Randolph Scott) es un cazador de recompensas contratado por la agencia Pinkerton para apresar a unos ladrones de trenes que en el último asalto robaron un gran botín y dejaron tres muertos y varios heridos. Siguiéndoles los pasos, Kipp llega a Twin Forks, donde nadie parece saber nada de los bandidos. Para descubrirlos, Kipp hace correr la voz de que espera por correo un retrato del jefe de la banda; entonces todos empiezan a ponerse nerviosos.
El cuarto hombre
Police Dispatcher (uncredited)
Cuatro ladrones atracan un camión blindado huyendo con más de un millón de dólares en efectivo. Joe Rolfe (Payne), un conductor de camiones de reparto de flores que está pasando por una mala racha, es acusado de estar involucrado y es interrogado duramente por la policía local. Liberado por falta de pruebas, Joe, siguiendo la pista a un balneario mexicano, decide buscar a los culpables tanto para limpiar su nombre y para vengarse.
The Frontier Phantom
Sheriff
Lash Larue seeks to arrest his twin brother, known as the Frontier Phantom
The Vanishing Outpost
Mack
Walker is an undercover Pinkerton Agent and gets Lash and Fuzzy involved in cleaning up the Taggert. A mash up of old Lash films and other movies and released as an original film.
Yes Sir, Mr. Bones
Emcee
A young boy finds himself in a home for retired minstrel acts. He's anxious to find out as much as he can about them, and flashbacks show what it was like back in the days of the minstrel shows.
The Thundering Trail
Governor Tom Emery
Lash and Fuzzy have been sent to escort the new Governor to the Capitol City. West and his outlaw gang are out to stop them. When Lash's first attempt is foiled, he realizes the Governor's supposedly deaf and dumb servant is the informant and sets a trap for the gang.
Revenue Agent
Ernie Medford
Accountant Augustis King discovers that his wife, Marfhe, is having an affair with his boss Sam Bellows. He telephones Internal Revenue Bureau that he can give evidence of a large tax-evasion racket. Before IRS-agent Steve Daniels arrives, King is murdered by a henchman of Bellows and his partner, Ernie Medford. Daniels discovers that Bellows and Medford are smuggling gold bullion from their mine in Mexico, and sell and bank the money under assumed names. they hide the bullion in a compartment welded to the bottom of a car.
El crepúsculo de los dioses
Salesman at Men's Shop (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.
I Shot Billy the Kid
Saloon Tough Slapped by Billy
Although the Lincoln County War has come to a conclusion, Billy the Kid turns his back on a gubernatorial pardon and continues his lawless career.
El pistolero
Johnny (uncredited)
Jimmie Ringo, un legendario pistolero, se siente tan viejo y cansado que está decidido a retirarse y llevar una vida más tranquila como granjero. Sin embargo, sus propósitos tropiezan con la incomprensión y la intolerancia de la sociedad. Aunque ya no será perseguido por la ley, la región está llena de jóvenes pistoleros que desean demostrar que son más rápidos que él para ocupar su lugar y heredar su fama.
El gran gorila
Reporter
En un viaje a África, un empresario del mundo del espectáculo descubre un enorme gorila de diez pies de altura, junto al que vive una hermosa joven que lo tiene de mascota. El empresario le convence para que vayan a Hollywood y allí presenta al gorila como "Míster Joseph Young de África". Obtiene un gran éxito como atracción de un club nocturno, pero algunos espectadores desaprensivos emborrachan al gorila, lo que da lugar a una serie de conflictos.
Ven tras de mí
Dixon (as Michael Branden)
El teniente de policía Harry Grant persigue implacablemente a un asesino en serie, conocido como "El Juez", que desde hace meses tiene aterrorizada a la ciudad. Sin embargo, todas las pistas le conducen a un callejón sin salida. El caso se complicará todavía más cuando una reportera decida también seguir los pasos del criminal.
Fort Apache
Reporter (uncredited)
Owen Thursday, general durante la Guerra civil (1861-1865) y recientemente degradado, llega a Fort Apache como teniente coronel acompañado de su bella hija Philadelphia para hacerse cargo del mando. Fort Apache, situado en medio del desierto, es un puesto militar fronterizo y sus soldados estan curtidos en las luchas contra los apaches mescaleros.
Retorno al pasado
Rafferty (uncredited)
Jeff Bailey, un antiguo detective, regenta una gasolinera en un pequeño pueblo, donde lleva una vida tranquila y sencilla. Sus amores son la pesca y una jovencita con la que quiere casarse. Inesperadamente, recibe la visita de un viejo conocido que le anuncia que el jefe quiere verlo. Bailey se ve entonces obligado a contarle a su novia su turbio pasado.
Second Chance
Barker
Jewel thieves battle investigators.
Robin Hood Of Texas
Jim Prescott
When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them to the others.
Web of Danger
Ramsey, Meteorologist
Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly quarreling over small and minor matter, especially when it comes to Peg Mallory, whom both men are romancing and Peg enjoys the attention. Thed work is suspended when a worker is killed, but a flood is approaching and the valley citizens are in dire straits unless the bridge is completed - in a hurry.
Pasión que redime
Freddie Francher
Madeleine Damien es editora de una elegante revista de Manhattan durante el día y el alma de la fiesta por la noche. La presión de su trabajo y su mala suerte con los hombres la están llevando cuesta abajo, por lo que decide buscar la ayuda de un psiquiátra, quien le recomienda romper con todo, abandonar su trabajo, cambiar de barrio y de nombre. En su nuevo hogar empieza a interesarse en la pintura y en un guapo vecino, pero éste pronto descubre su pasado cuando un antiguo pretendiente la implica en un crimen.
Suddenly It's Spring
Captain Jergens
La II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) pone a un matrimonio al borde de la ruptura. Cuando empieza el conflicto, ella se marcha a servir a su país, pero, cuando regresa, se encuentra con que su marido está más que interesado por otra mujer. Así las cosas, se plantean el divorcio.
The Arnelo Affair
Roger Alison (as Michael Branden)
A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.
Accomplice
Sheriff Rucker
A private detective and his assistant are hired to find a missing husband. The seemingly easy case is complicated by a dead body.
El Diablo y yo
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
El gangster E. Kagle ha sido asesinado por su socio y amigo S. Williams. Kagle acaba en el infierno, donde "Nick" le ofrece la oportunidad de vengarse, a cambio de su ayuda con un problema que tiene. Nick lo dispone todo para que Kagle ocupe el cuerpo del honrado juez Parker. En el transcurso de los acontecimientos, Kagle se ve involucrado con Bárbara Foster, la novia del juez, de la que se enamora, hecho que le hará replantearse todo lo que ha sido su vida.
Ángel negro
George Mitchell
Hollywood, años 40. La policía encuentra en un apartamento el cadáver de la cantante y "femme fatale" Mavis Marlowe. El principal sospechoso es Kira Bennett, antiguo amante de la mujer. Cuando la policía averigua que Mavis había estado chantajeando a Bennett, éste es arrestado y condenado a muerte. Su esposa y el marido alcohólico de Mavis son los únicos que creen en su inocencia y se unirán para descubrir al auténtico culpable en una auténtica carrera contrarreloj.
The French Key
Murdock (as Michael Branden)
Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
Swingin' on a Rainbow
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
The Missing Corpse
Jimmy Trigg (uncredited)
A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackmailing McDonald ends up murdered and his corpse planted in the trunk of Kruger's car. Good guy Kruger attempts to hide McDonald's body, with the help of chauffeur Hogan (Jenks), to keep from being charged with murder. However, zany scenarios occur as the body just won't stay hidden, and keeps on popping up in multiple places where Kruger is located, leading to him hiding the body again and again while Kruger tries to find the real killer.
El mayor y la menor
Cadet Sergeant (uncredited)
Después de probar fortuna en Nueva York y no tener éxito, Susan Applegate decide regresar a su pueblo en Iowa. Previendo esta situación había reservado 27,50$ para el tren, pero como la tarifa ha aumentado decide disfrazarse de niña de 12 años para pagar la mitad. Los revisores del tren dudan que en realidad sea una niña y para escapar de ellos entra en el camarote de un apuesto militar, el Mayor del título, y es donde comienzan los enredos.
Thundering Hoofs
Steve Farley
Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father's stage line.
Rivales por un beso
Petty Officer
El tímido marinero Casey Kirby se convierte de repente en un lobo de mar cuando es fotografiado al lado de una actriz famosa. Sus compañeros entonces hacen una apuesta, para ver si es capaz de conquistar a una fría cantante de night-club conocida como la Condesa.
USS VD: Ship of Shame
'Doc' Taylor (uncredited)
This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the results of "fooling around" with "loose women" overseas. Actual victims of such sexually transmitted diseases as syphilis and gonorrhoea are shown, along with the physical deterioration that accompanies those diseases.
Pacific Blackout
Suspicious Cafe Waiter
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper (Robert Preston) escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Radio Announcer (voice)
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Among the Living
Tom Reilly
Paul es un joven que vive encerrado desde su niñez en una habitación de la mansión familiar. Está trastornado a causa de su encierro, provocado por su perverso padre. Cuando era niño, intentó defender a su madre y éste le atacó de tal manera que casi lo mata. Desde entonces, optó por dejarlo encerrado y hacer creer a todo el mundo que el chico había muerto. Ahora han pasado más de 20 años y el viejo acaba de morir... Un hombre mentalmente inestable, que ha estado aislado durante años, escapa y causa problemas a su hermano gemelo idéntico.
Prairie Stranger
Barton
Charles Starrett is once more cast as frontier doctor Steve Monroe in Columbia's Prairie Stranger. In the company of his comic sidekick, mail-order intern Bones (Cliff Edwards), Dr. Monroe sets up his shingle in a small Nevada town. When business is slow, Monroe and Bones take jobs as ranch-hands on a cattle spread, and while thus employed try to solve a series of mysterious livestock poisonings.
Bad Man of Deadwood
Cavalry Lieutenant
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
West Point Widow
Joe Martin
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
Mr. District Attorney
Motorcycle Officer
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
Vuelo de águilas
Lt. Clarkton
Historia de tres hombres dispuestos a hacer todo lo posible para entrar a formar parte de las fuerzas aéreas.
Behind the News
Reporter
As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh out of journalism school, whose presence is resented by Nolan and his fellow workers. But it is Albertson who, after running afoul of the law, is instrumental in breaking up a ring of racketeers. Behind the News was remade by Republic as Headline Hunters (55).
Mysterious Doctor Satan
Ross
A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.
Policía montada del Canadá
Mountie
En 1885, tres aventureros de la frontera (el maestro Riel, el traficante de whisky Corbeau y el trampero Duroc) fomentan en Canadá una rebelión contra la Corona. Sólo la Policía Montada permanece leal. El policía Ronnie Logan está enamorado de la hija de Corbeau, pero tiene que rivalizar con un ránger de Texas que busca a Corbeau por asesinato
Young Bill Hickok
Phillip
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Bates
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Carter Lane
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge. The museum also houses a statue of Charlie. Frustrated number-two son kicks statue in rear; oops, number-two son wrong in his assumption
Buck Benny Rides Again
Mac - Attendant
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
Granny Get Your Gun
Joe
An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges.
Wolf of New York
Cop
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
Geronimo
General's Orderly
El esfuerzo del ejército para capturar al jefe de Apache, Gerónimo, que lidera una banda de guerreros en un alboroto de asaltos y asesinatos, se ve obstaculizado por una disputa entre dos oficiales, que son padre e hijo.
Television Spy
Jim Winton
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
The Arizona Kid
Lieutenant Fox
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
Mickey the Kid
Shelby, the Bus Driver
A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.
Unión Pacífico
Secretary (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).
King of Chinatown
2nd Interne
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
Ambush
Bank Teller
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
Say It in French
Elevator Operator
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
Illegal Traffic
Duke
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.
Men with Wings
Nelson
Esta película se desarrolla en los primeros tiempos de la aviación civil, cuando los pilotos se jugaban la vida como auténticos héroes debido a la precariedad de los primeros aviones.
Prison Farm
Telegraph Operator
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!)
Cocoanut Grove
Radio Station Technician
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
Pasión salvaje
Roy Atkins
Un aviador y su mecánico tienen un accidente y caen en una isla del Pacífico Sur donde entran en contacto con una bella indígena llamada Tura que aprende, entre otras cosas, a besar como lo hacen los occidentales. Allí también está un pérfido doctor que hipnotiza a Tura para someterse a un sacrificio humano.
Tip-Off Girls
Hensler
A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.
Una nación en marcha
Man with Paper
Historia sobre el desarrollo de las comunicaciones terrestres en los EE.UU. durante su rápida expansión en el siglo XIX. La película se centra en la vida de Ramsey McCay, empleado de la recién creada asociación entre Henry Wells y William Fargo, y de cómo gracias a su especial dedicación, la Wells-Fargo llega a convertirse en una gran empresa de correos y transporte de mercancías hacia el Oeste, presente en los mayores acontecimientos de la época.
Hold 'Em Navy
Jerry Abbott
Dos jugadores de fútbol americano que estudian en la academia naval compiten por los favores de la misma chica.
Partners in Crime
Photographer
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
Sophie Lang Goes West
Clerk
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.