Spec O'Donnell

Spec O'Donnell

Nacimiento : 1911-04-09, Fresno, California, USA

Muerte : 1986-10-14

Perfil

Spec O'Donnell
Spec O'Donnell

Películas

Convoy
18 Wheel Eddie
Está basada, curiosa y lejanamente, en una canción country y cuenta la historia de un grupo de camioneros que decide manifestarse en la carretera contra los despóticos comportamientos de un inmisericorde sheriff. Un grupo de camioneros forman una larga caravana para protestar contra un despótico y arbitrario sheriff que ha arrestado a uno de los suyos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Duelo en la alta sierra
Pianist (uncredited)
Dos antiguos pistoleros se asocian para escoltar un cargamento de oro. Uno intenta hacer un buen trabajo y volver a su casa. Pero la única intención del otro es robar la valiosa carga.
¿Alguien ha visto a mi chica?
Candy Seller (uncredited)
Un anciano millonario sin familia, que pretende dejar toda su fortuna a los descendientes de una novia suya que lo rechazó, se traslada a la localidad donde residen para comprobar cómo viven sus futuros herederos.
Double Exposure
Messenger
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.
El milagro de Morgan Creek
Son of Townsman (uncredited)
La tranquilidad de un pequeño pueblo de Estados Unidos se ve alterada después de un baile al que asistieron algunos soldados. Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton), una hermosa chica, aparece al día siguiente borracha, con un anillo de casada en el dedo y embarazada de un hombre del que sólo conoce el apellido. Había seis soldados, pero no recuerda quién es el afortunado.
Arsénico por compasión
Young Man in Line (uncredited)
Un crítico teatral que acaba de casarse decide visitar a sus ancianas tías antes de marcharse de luna de miel. Durante la visita descubrirá que las encantadoras viejecitas tienen una manera muy peculiar de practicar la caridad.
El eterno pretendiente
Theatre Usher
Jerry Flynn es un famoso empresario teatral de Broadway que está a punto de perder su teatro si no salda en breve una deuda de cien mil dólares. Paseando por la calle encuentra a un niño que juega con una oruga amaestrada llamada Curly. Si convence al niño para que se asocie con él, sus problemas pueden estar resueltos
Crazy House
Bellhop
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
All by Myself
Messenger
Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to Jean, Mark has become engaged to singer Val. When Jean finds out she tries to save face by saying that she is also engaged, and then uses a little social blackmail to get psychiatrist Bill Perry to pretend to be her fiancé for an evening out with Mark and Val.
Abbott y Costello: Dos peatones a caballo
Newsboy (uncredited)
Grover y Wilbur deben encontrar un sustituto del caballo de O'Hara, muerto tras comer caramelos accidentalmente. El dúo encuentra a uno en un hipódromo y se lo llevan, ignorando que se trata de un campeón de carreras llamado "Galleta de Té".
Frankenstein y el hombre lobo
Villager in Tavern (uncredited)
El resucitado Hombre Lobo, buscando una cura para su enfermedad acude en busca de la ayuda del doctor Frankenstein. Cuando llega a su castillo descubre que el Dr. ha muerto a manos del los habitantes del pueblo, y levanta las sospechas de éstos, que comienzan a perseguirlo. En su huida se esconde en las galerías del castillo donde libera del hielo al monstruo de Frankentein.
La llave de cristal
Campaign Headquarters Usher (uncredited)
Durante la campaña para la reelección, el político corrupto Paul Madvig decide limpiar su pasado, rechazando el apoyo del gángster Nick Varna y asociándose con el respetable político reformista Ralph Henry. Cuando el hijo de Ralph, Taylor Henry, un jugador y el amante de la hermana de Pablo Opal, es asesinado, el brazo derecho de Paul, Ed Beaumont, encuentra su cuerpo en la calle. Nick utiliza la situación financiera de The Observer para forzar al editor Clyde Matthews a utilizar el periódico para sembrar la sospecha de que Paul Madvig podría haber matado a Taylor
El macho
Gagged Student (uncredited)
Los miembros del Consejo Rector de la Universidad Midwestern han expulsado a tres profesores por sospechar que puedan ser comunistas. El consejero Ed Keller (Eugene Pallette) también ha amenazado con la expulsión a Tommy Turner (Henry Fonda), el profesor de literatura, que tiene previsto leer en su clase un texto que puede resultar sospechoso. Pero no es eso lo que más molesta al profesor Turner, sino el hecho de que su propia esposa, Ellen (Olivia De Havilland) también opine que no debe de leer el controvertido texto. Mientras tanto, Joe Ferguson (Jack Carson), un antiguo novio de Ellen se ha presentado a hacerles una visita durante el fin de semana, lo que ha causado cierta preocupación a Tommy...
Dressed to Kill
Elevator Operator
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
Mi marido está loco
Anniversary Singer (uncredited)
Steve y Susan Ireland van a cumplir su cuarto aniversario de boda, pero su relación es bastante problemática. Cuando Susan descubre a Steve con su antigua novia, piensa que tienen una aventura y decide pedir el divorcio. Pero Steve ama a su mujer y está dispuesto a todo con tal de recuperarla...
Al fin solos
Disappointed Fan at Stage Door (uncredited)
Danny y Hank son dos estudiantes de trompeta que han estado siete años estudiando y tocando juntos en la banda de la universidad. Los dos compiten en el trabajo y en el amor para conseguir los favores de su mánager, la bella Ellen Miller.
Penrod's Double Trouble
Carnival Patron (uncredited)
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
Held For Ransom
Delivery Boy
A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.
Accidents Will Happen
"Specs" Carter
A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.
Walking Down Broadway
Messenger
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
The Daredevil Drivers
Bellboy (uncredited)
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
Blondes at Work
First Newsboy (uncredited)
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
Las vacaciones del juez Harvey
Drowsy (uncredited)
De vacaciones con su familia en la isla Catalina, Andy Hardy se enamora de una sofisticada belleza. El juez Hardy advierte a su hijo que ella es demasiado lista para él.
Night Club Scandal
Copy Boy
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....
Love Is on the Air
Pinky
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
Varsity Show
Student
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
Exclusive
Phone Boy
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
Public Wedding
Elevator Operator
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.
Angel's Holiday
Newsboy
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
Melody for Two
Page
A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
King of Hockey
Clapping Fan
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
College Holiday
Lafayette
Con la esperanza de montar un espectáculo musical, unos estudiantes universitarios de baile y canto van a parar a un ruinoso hotel, donde servirán de conejillos de Indias de un experimento eugenésico.
Earthworm Tractors
Telegram Boy
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
Man Hunt
George (uncredited)
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
Freshman Love
Eddie
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
Stars Over Broadway
Boy Hanging Sign - 'At Your Service, Madame' Number
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
Kentucky Blue Streak
O'Donnell - Bellhop
A nosy reporter (Nugent) befriends the dumb Coughlin and pushes the Governor to commute his sentence. Now, Coughlin can ride his family's pride and joy in the Kentucky Derby. BUT, the mean old Warden cancels all paroles--and the idiot decides to escape (even though he's only got 10 more months to serve). So, the reporter has a hunch and goes to see if he can find Coughlin--and the Warden deputizes him!! At this point you might wonder if the boy will make good and win the big race
The Dancing Millionaire
Newspaper Boy
The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition
Friends Of Mr. Sweeney
Office Boy
Un hombre tímido y apocado finge ser un sofisticado hombre de mundo cuando recibe la visita de un antiguo compañero de la universidad.
Una noche de amor
Call Boy
Mary quiere convertirse en cantante de ópera y empieza a recibir clases del maestro Guilio Monteverdi. Poco a poco ambos se irán enamorando. (FILMAFFINITY)
Hold Your Temper
The day starts out fine for Leon, but as it goes on, things start to deteriorate.
His Weak Moment
A comedy short.
Carita de ángel
Office Boy (uncredited)
Lilly Powers es una camarera de una horrible ciudad industrial que trabaja en la cantina de su padre, donde aprende las malas artes de los clientes masculinos. Cuando este muere, se traslada a Nueva York con su criada, donde aprovechará su experiencia y su capacidad de engatusar a los hombres para ir escalando posiciones. En la gran manzana conoce a Jimmy McCoy, un botones de oficina que la ayuda a conseguir un trabajo en la Gotham Trust Company. A partir de entonces seduce y rechaza a varios hombres.
Lilly Turner
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Parole Girl
Magazine Subscription Salesman
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
The Secrets of Wu Sin
Copy Boy
A murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown.
El beso de la muerte
Pete
Mientras interpreta la escena final de "El beso de la muerte", el protagonista muere asesinado. Los sospechosos son muchos, pues ha flirteado, actuado o contraido matrimonio con casi todas las mujeres del estudio. Cuando la protagonista es detenida, un guionista del estudio empieza a investigar el asesinato para demostrar su inocencia. (FILMAFFINIT)
Ondas musicales
Office Boy
Un cantante de la radio, Bing Hornsby, no se toma muy en serio su profesión, y una relación amorosa con Mona provoca su despido. Cuando da la impresión de que Hornsby concede excesiva atención a su novia Anita, el director de la emisora la compra, devuelve el trabajo a Hornsby y se marcha de luna de miel con Anita
Exposure
Inky
A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants to give it up, but he tries to convince her to make a go of it.
Hello Trouble
Joey - Cowhand
After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon ranch just as Jonathan Kenyon apparently commits suicide. He and Janet Kenyon then become the new half owners. At first, he refuses to wear a gun and is believed to be a coward, but as trouble mounts, he straps it on once again.
Sangre joven
Bull Butler (Uncredited)
Adaptación de una obra teatral de John Frederick Ballard, en la que se abordaba el tema de la delincuencia juvenil.
The Knockout
Ringside Spectator (uncredited)
When Mickey accidentally knocks out a local boxing champ, he is forced to take the fighter's place in a bout.
The Mystery Train
Caddy
A group of passengers are trapped in a runaway Pullman car.
Sweepstakes
Jockey
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Blondes Prefer Bonds
Louise Fazdenda decides to get a make-over to rekindle the romance in her marriage. Somehow the rejuvenation process takes them back to the time of their courtship...the big hats and big bustles. Neither does much to rekindle the husband's dying flame but does attract the attention of a couple of other men.
The Itching Hour
The Concentrated Spinach Baby
Comedy spoof of THE CAT AND THE CANARY. A female athlete and her entourage take refuge on a stormy night in a strange hotel that seems to be haunted.
Blood and Thunder
Rudy (uncredited)
Mickey overhears the gang rehearsing a play and thinks it's real.
Traffic Tangle
Gregory
A drive in a new car with the family turns into a fiasco.
Boarding House Blues
A boarding house maid is treated mean, until inheriting oil gives her a new gleam.
Rich Uncles
When the rich uncle finds the bride in the company of one of her former suitors, he mistakes him for the bridegroom.
Su éxito
Office Boy
La cantante (Alice White) de un club nocturno de Nueva York es descubierta por un productor de cine y es llevada a Hollywood para convertirla en la siguiente gran estrella cinematográfica.
The Grand Parade
Call Boy
No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the sweetheart of minstrel-show performer Jack Kelly. Rising to the top of his profession, Kelly plummets to the bottom thanks to his fondness for intoxicating beverages. Molly nurses and coddles Kelly back to health, giving nary a thought for her own comfort or happiness.
Dance Hall
Newspaper Vendor
A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.
The Sophomore
Joe's Nephew
Joe Collins (Eddie Quillan) arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
A Pair of Tights
The Kid
Two girls are invited by one of the girls boy-friend's tight boss for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice-cream. But swinging doors, ventilators, cops and a brat make it nearly impossible to get the ice cream even close to the car where the rest are waiting.
Show Girl
Radio delivery boy (uncredited)
An aspiring dancer fakes her own kidnapping as a publicity stunt. Her new found fame causes trouble with her boyfriend.
Danger Street
Sammy
Danger Street (1928)
Vamping Venus
Western Union Boy / Mercury
A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head.
Dumb Daddies
The Son
Max mistakes his son's acting for reality. When the play calls for the son to commit a murder (on a mannequin), Max winds up trying to hide the body from the police.
Pass the Gravy
Ignatz
Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant feuding between the two men. When their children announce their engagement the two men decide to bury the hatchet and Davidson suggests a dinner at his house. He gives his young son, Ignatz, two dollars to buy a chicken but the boy pockets the money and kills Schultz' first place rooster instead. Once seated at the table all but Schultz discover what they are eating and desperately try to hide the bad news from Schultz who is sure to kill Davidson if he knows the truth.
Should Second Husbands Come First?
The Widow's Younger Son
A woman's two sons pretend to be insane in order to de-rail their mother's plans to remarry.
Call of the Cuckoo
Love's Greatest Mistake
Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.
We're All Gamblers
Spec
The second of Thomas Meighan's three 1927 vehicles, We're All Gamblers was also the first of two collaborations between Meighan and director James Cruze. Based on Lucky Sam McCarver, a play by Sidney Howard, the story concerns a refugee of the Lower East Side who rises to the uppermost rungs of the nightclub world, all for the sake of a "dame." Boxer Sam McCarver (Meighan) falls in love with society girl Carlotta Asche (Mariette Mische).
Don't Tell Everything
Asher Ginsberg alias The Maid
Max and his son Asher are invited to a party, where Max meets a rich widow, but Asher keeps annoying all of the guests, so Max refuses to speak to him. 10 days later he has married the widow, but hasn't told her about Asher. Asher doesn't like the situation either, and enters the home disguised as the new maid, that leeds to a growing suspicion of his step mother, who has her own little secret.
Special Delivery
Office Boy
The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman. While going through his swiftly appointed rounds, Eddie stumbles upon a gang of crooks who are planning a large-scale confidence scam. He exposes the villains and wins the love of heroine Madge (Jobyna Ralston). Though Cantor was a fine physical comic, he didn't truly score in films until the arrival of talkies allowed his fans to hear as well as see him. Special Delivery was directed by "William Goodrich," who in reality was comedian Fatty Arbuckle, hoping to stage a comeback after the sex scandal that destroyed his career.
Casey at the Bat
Spec
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his equally dishonest manager go to the big leagues. Eventually, the scout and manager conspire to get him drunk and bet against him for a crucial game with the pennant at stake.
Why Girls Say No
Maxie Whisselberg
A short comedy by Leo McCarey about a jewish father who is worried about his daughter.
Trípoli
Cabin Boy (uncredited)
En 1797 se produjo la botadura del "Constitución", una de las primeras fragatas estadounidenses diseñada, en principio, para acabar con la tiranía de los piratas berberiscos, que asolaban los mares y exigían tributo a las naciones. A partir de este dato histórico, se mezcla la ficción: un joven de Salem trata de embarcar en el "Constitución", pero por el camino encontrará a un par de lobos de mar embaucadores. Los tres, por distintas vías, se reunirán en una nave que, sin proponérselo, seguirá la estela del "Constitución".
Gorriones
Ambrose
Oculta en los pantanos del sur, la familia Grimes tiene una granja donde los niños no deseados o perdidos son cruelmente desnutridos y agotados. Mamá Mollie (Pickford), la mayor de los niños, protege a los demás lo mejor que puede y mantiene su valor diciéndoles que Dios cuida de ellos como lo hace del más pequeño gorrión.
Don Key (Son of Burro)
Office Boy
The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring writer is awaiting outside the office and the producer agrees to see him. He listens while the writer tells his story and acts the numerous parts. The story is rotten, but the producer lets him escape while vowing vengeance on any other author who would read his story aloud.
La pequeña Anita
Abie
Annie es hija de un policía y vive en los barrios bajos con su padre y su hermano. Sus mejores amigos son una pandilla de chavales del barrio con los que juega y se pelea. Cuando su padre es asesinado y el muchacho del que está enamorada es acusado del hecho, sus amigos harán todo lo posible por ayudarla a encontrar al verdadero culpable. (filmaffinit-y)
The Dressmaker from Paris
Jim
An American soldier falls in love with a French maiden but their romance is thwarted when the Yanks return home. Years later she comes to America to put on a fashion show and find her long lost lover.
The Devil's Cargo
Jimmy
John Joyce arrives in Sacramento with his sister, Martha, and aunt to become the editor of a newspaper. He is determined to clear the town of the low-down mining camp types who are flaunting their freewheeling ways. When Joyce meets Faro Sampson, he falls in love, believing that she is the daughter of a minister. Actually she's the daughter of the man who runs a gambling den, "Square Deal" Sampson.
Speed Boys
Spec
While Spec's father is ill, he takes over as conductor on the miniature railroad.
The Darling of New York
Willie
Santussa, an orphan who becomes separated from her nurse en route to America to live with her grandfather, is cared for by gangsters who hide their stolen jewels in her ragdoll. In New York, Big Mike, finding Santussa a nuisance, dumps her and the doll in a trash can, where a newsboy finds her. After several adventures, Santussa finds her grandfather, the jewels are handed over to customs officials, and the gang of crooks is reformed.
The Country Kid
Joe Applegate
Ben Applegate's father dies, leaving him and his brothers Joe and Andy orphans and having to run the family farm. Their Uncle Grimes is their legal guardian, but he's only concerned with getting his hands on the farm. He has Ben declared incompetent and packs off Joe and Andy to an orphanage. When things look darkest for the three boys, help comes from an unexpected source.
Little Johnny Jones
Freckle faced Little Boy
Jockey Johnny Jones is hired to ride The Earl of Bloomsburg's horse at the English Derby. Crooked gambler Robert Anstead frames Johnny as a thief and kidnaps his sweetheart in order to make Johnny throw the race. Will he succeed?