Crane Whitley

Nacimiento : 1899-10-28, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 1958-02-28

Historia

Crane Whitley was born on October 28, 1899 in New York City, New York, USA as Clement Samuel Wilenchick. He was an actor, known for The Tiger Woman (1944), The Pilgrimage Play (1949) and Captain America (1944). He died on February 28, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Películas

Spy Smasher Returns
Dr. Hauser
Edited version of the 1942 Republic serial "Spy Smasher," cut down to one hour and sold for TV release in 1966 in a syndication package with other truncated Republic serials.
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Barfly
Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle is sent to investigate, saloon owner Hallie has to be a reluctant witness.
Comando submarino
El comandante de un submarino ha de enfrentarse a sus propios demonios cuando se le asigna una peligrosa misión, al principio de la guerra de Corea. (FILMAFFINIT)
Solo una bandera
Cavalry Major
Hacia el final de la Guerra Civil Norteamericana (1861-1865), un oficial del ejército Confederado se ve involucrado en los delitos de una cuadrilla de bandidos que recorren el territorio robando y asesinando.
Insurance Investigator
Chief Meyers
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
La espada de Montecristo
Hansmann
En la época de Napoleón, éste abusa del pueblo haciéndole pagar unos impuestos muy elevados. Unos rebeldes luchan contra esto y para ello intentan conseguir el tesoro de Montecristo... (FILMAFFINITY)
California Passage
Vigilante in Mob (uncredited)
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure an acquittal.
The Savage Horde
Greb
A charismatic gunfighter who is on the run takes refuge in a frontier cattle town and attempts to help a group of ranchers against a wealthy cattle baron.
The Pilgrimage Play
Longinus
Nelson Leigh assumes the role of Jesus Christ in this drama that depicts such historical events as the Sermon on the Mount and the Last Supper while portraying the period in which Christ roamed the countryside preaching the gospel.
Hellfire
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another.
Outpost in Morocco
Caid Osman
Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he can about the emir's activities. Gerard enjoys his work with lovely Cara, but arrives to find rebellion brewing.
Arrostrando la muerte
Doctor Kemble / Off-Screen Narrator
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
Más fuerte que la ley
Foreman (Uncredited)
Jenny Marsh es una ex presidiaria que, tras pasar cinco años en la cárcel y conseguir la libertad condicional, establece una estrecha relación con el agente que debe vigilarla.
Walk a Crooked Mile
A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?
Where There's Life
Assassin With Cane
El rey de un lejano país resulta gravemente herido después de un intento de asesinato. Su único heredero es un tímido profesional de la radio, que vive en Nueva York. Después de viajar a regañadientes a su país natal, se convierte en objetivo de la misma organización terrorista que atacó al rey.
House of Cards
In this film without sound, a man awakes disheveled in a rooming house. He stares out the window seeing children playing and a well-dressed man sitting on a chair in the middle of the street reading a newspaper and looking up at him. A headline describes the murder of a child. The disheveled man, whose face expresses fear and despair, leaves, going through the city, alarmed when anyone looks at him. A woman invites him to look through a public telescope. He does then keeps going. He climbs a hill. Two fencers appear; so does a jester. Is flight fruitless?
The Case Of The Baby-Sitter
Charlie Moore, hotel manager
The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective, Neal is hired to keep an eye on the child of married couple George Meeker and Rebel Randall. Actually, Meeker and Randall are jewel thieves, and their "baby" is their stolen loot. Neal eventually catches on when he realizes that this is the quietest child on earth. Running a scant 41 minutes, Case of the Baby Sitter was designed to be shown in tandem with another Screen Guild Productions "briefie," The Hat Box Mystery: the films were shot back to back, with Tom Neal and Pamela Blake starring in both.
Perseguido
General (uncredited)
Jeb Rand (Robert Mitchum) es un hombre atormentado por los recuerdos de su infancia. Adoptado a los cuatro años por Medora Callum (Judith Anderson), tras el asesinato de toda su familia, Jeb crece sin problemas en su nuevo hogar. Sin embargo, sus traumas infantiles vuelven una y otra vez a través de sus sueños. Y sus pesadillas se hacen realidad cuando reaparece el hombre que, después de acabar con su familia, no ha dejado de buscarlo durante años para acabar también con él.
Bajo el manto tenebroso
Arnheim
John Martin lidera a un grupo de paracaidistas que deben lanzarse en la Francia ocupada para destruir un túnel de vital importancia para los nazis. La operación no sale como estaba prevista y algunos de los miembros de la operación son capturados por la Gestapo.
Días sin huella
Waiter at Harry & Joe's Bar (uncredited)
Don Birnam es un escritor fracasado a causa de su adicción al alcohol, adicción que lo ha destruido física y moralmente y lo ha convertido en un hombre desprovisto de voluntad. Con tal de seguir bebiendo es capaz de todo, incluso de robar. Tanto su novia como su hermano intentan por todos los medios regenerarlo, pero sus esfuerzos parecen estériles.
Mis cuatro amores
Colonel (Uncredited)
Susan Darell (Joan Fontaine) a lo largo de su vida recuerda cómo fue amada por cuatro hombres que la veían de maneras diferentes.
Bewitched
Warden Clark (uncredited)
En pleno Valle de San Fernando, en California, Isabel, está tratando de reinventarse a si misma. Una bruja ingenua y buena persona, está dispuesta a desactivar sus poderes y llevar una vida normal.
Phantoms, Inc.
Inspector Becker
This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con man all of the family savings to find reassurance that her son is all right. When she can no longer pay, events take a tragic turn.
The Scarlet Clue
Henchman Cooper
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
The Power of the Whistler
Police Captain
A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.
Tener y no tener
Gaulist (uncredited)
Segunda Guerra Mundial. Harry Morgan y su compañero Eddie son dos marineros que están en la isla de Martinica, esperando inútilmente que algún barco los contrate. Al final, se verán obligados a trabajar para la Resistencia.
Oh, What a Night!
Sullivan
An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his neice.
The Tiger Woman
Tom Dagget
Greedy oil speculators, led by Morgan, are trying to force Tiger Woman and her band of warriors from their jungle home. Allen Saunders of Inter-Ocean Oil wants to develop the oil, too, but fights with Tiger Woman to stop the bad guys.
El señor Skeffington
Louie (uncredited)
Nueva York, 1914. Para salvar a su hermano, que ha cometido un desfalco, Fanny Trellis (Bette Davis), una mujer egoísta que sólo se preocupa por su belleza, se ve obligada a casarse con Job Skeffington Claude Rains), el director del banco, un hombre poco atractivo y mucho mayor que ella, pero paciente y bondadoso. El matrimonio, concertado y sin amor, pasará por varias etapas en las que ambos verán pasar dos guerra mundiales, varios amantes, una cruel enfermedad, persecuciones nazis, la ceguera y el pánico al envejecimiento.
Batallón de construcción
Lt. Cmdr. Hunter (uncredited)
Durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), el capitán Yarrow y el jefe de construcción Donovan consiguen un permiso para levantar una base de armamento que les permita enfrentarse con cierta ventaja contra los japoneses. Cuando llega el momento de luchar, ambos lo harán con gran valentía y audacia.
Around the World
American Captain
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
For God and Country
Chaplain
The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father Michael O'Keefe, Arnold Miller, and Tom Manning.
Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
A.T. Atkinson
Una película de entrenamiento para agentes de OSS. Esta película tenía como objetivo mostrar a los agentes en capacitación las técnicas y los obstáculos involucrados en el trabajo encubierto en países antagónicos.
Reunión en Francia
Officer (uncredited)
Michelle de la Becque está enamorada del diseñador industrial Robert Cortot. Juntos disfrutan en París de una vida lujosa hasta que Michelle descubre que su amante se relaciona con oficiales nazis y que sus fábricas trabajan para el ejército alemán. Al mismo tiempo, ayuda a un aviador americano cuyo avión ha sido derribado y acaba enamorándose de él.
Underground Agent
Giuseppe Ormanti
In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a word scrambler which makes it difficult for the enemy agent.
Lucky Jordan
Gardener
Un pillo y corredor de apuestas de Nueva York, llamado Lucky Jordan, cuenta un montón de mentiras para librarse del ejército, de ahí que las fuerzas armadas le tengan bajo vigilancia. Sin embargo, cuando una banda de espías extranjeros se inmiscuyen en los negocios de una vieja amiga a la que Jordan quiere como a una madre, este hombre reconsiderará su actitud ante la vida...
Abbott y Costello: ¿Quién mató a quién?
Radio Actor (uncredited)
Chick Larkin y Mervyn Milgrim trabajan en el mostrador de una estación de radio local. Su verdadera pasión, sin embargo, es llegar a ser escritores en el programa de misterio de la radio. Así asisten a una emisión del programa "Asesinato a medianoche" junto con uno de los escritores, Jimmy Turner y la productora, Jane Little. A poco de comenzar el espectáculo, el presidente de la cadena, el coronel JR Andrews es misteriosamente electrocutado. A resultas de ello Chick y Mervyn ven su gran oportunidad de llegar a escribir para la radio haciéndose pasar por detectives con el fin de resolver el crimen.
Incursión en la noche
Doctor
El escenario donde transcurre la acción es la Noruega ocupada por las tropas alemanas. Entre los cientos de detenidos en los campos de concentración se encuentra un líder de la resistencia noruega, el general Jiding.
Eagle Squadron
German Sentry
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
Spy Smasher
Hauser
Prior to the United States' involvement in World War II, the masked vigilante Spy Smasher fights Nazi agents operating within the US, led by the treacherous sabotage leader codenamed The Mask.
Mi rubia favorita
Ulrich - Henchman
Karen Bentley, una agente especial inglesa, tiene que formar equipo con el estrambótico Larry Haines, para frustrar los planes de unos espías alemanes.
Underground
Gestapo Agent
Un joven se siente especialmente atraído por la parafernalia exhibida por el Partido Nazi, siendo un ferviente admirador de las políticas expansionistas de Hitler. Sin embargo, cuando sus amigos comienzan a ser asesinados por la Gestapo, el muchacho cambia de parecer y decide ayudar a la resistencia alemana a acabar con la tiranía del Führer.
Hold That Woman!
Defense Attorney
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
El hombre invisible vuelve
Minor Role (uncredited)
Un hombre que va a ser ejecutado, acusado del asesinato de su hermano, recibe la visita del Dr. Griffin, hermano del científico que años atrás descubrió la fórmula de invisibilidad. El condenado huye gracias a que se hace invisible, y trata de demostrar su inocencia, pero la locura que va unida a los efectos secundarios de la fórmula para ser invisible harán acto de presencia...
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Henchman Pete
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
The Invisible Killer
Dist. Atty. Richard Sutton
Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweetheart, Detective Lieutenant Jerry Brown, chief of the police Homicide Squad. When the call comes in that there has been a killing at Lefty Ross' place, a notorious gambling joint, Jerry is peeved when Sue beats him there. He discovers that gambler Jimmy Clark was killed as he answered a telephone call, and his body is riddled with bullets but Jerry can't find any weapon. Sue is amazed to see Gloria Cunningham there. Gloria's father is one of the town's leading reformers and she is engaged to District Attorney Richard Sutton. Ross decides to give Sutton all the information he needs and makes an appointment to go to Sutton's home. Once there, Ross is called to the telephone before he can give any information, and is killed in the same mysterious manner as Jimmy Clark.
Locos del aire
Corporal
Un hombre sufre un desengaño cuando descubre que la chica a la que quiere está casada con un soldado. Pretende suicidarse con la ayuda de un amigo, pero mientras lo intenta aparece un oficial de la Legión Extranjera que los anima a alistarse, asegurándoles que en pocos días olvidarán lo sucedido. Una vez allí, las aventuras se sucederán con cómicos resultados.
Television Spy
Tamley
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
Hitler - Beast of Berlin
Klee
Un grupo de jóvenes se enfrenta a la brutalidad de los nazis. Tienen un topo en la guardia de élite de Hitler, pero se ve obligado a participar en orgías y el alcohol le desata la lengua...
Bad Boy
Henchman
Johnny Fraser (Johnny Downs) leaves his mother (Helen MacKellar) in their small home town and sets out for the big city. He obtains a job with a large firm of architects. Steve Carson (Archie Robbins), a fellow employee, is constantly flaunting the money he has won at the race track. Johnny also bets the races, but loses heavily and takes some of the firm's money to cover his losses.
S.O.S Tidal Wave
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
The Last Warning
Detective Slocumbe
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
A Man to Remember
Tough Guy Funeral Observer (uncredited)
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.