Oscar Smith

Nacimiento : 1885-10-28, Topeka, Kansas, USA

Muerte : 1956-03-18

Películas

Perdición
Pullman Porter (uncredited)
MacMurray es un vendedor de seguros que, en connivencia con Barbara Stanwyck, elabora un plan para asesinar al marido de ella y quedarse con el dinero de su seguro. Obra cumbre del género, uno de los ejercicios de suspense más fascinantes de todos los tiempos.
El cuervo (Contratado para matar)
Train Porter (uncredited)
Un matón llamado Raven (Cuervo en inglés) es contratado para que cometa un asesinato. Sin embargo, pronto se da cuenta de que su vida está en peligro, ya que alguien pretende tenderle una trampa.
Rivales por un beso
Valet
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.
The Way of All Flesh
Porter
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
Tom Sawyer, Detective
Curfew
The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn.
Rhythm on the Range
Waiter
Comedia musical en la cual un cowboy (Bing Crosby) regresa a su tierra después de algunos años, enamorándose de una rica ranchera (Frances Farmer).
Stolen Harmony
Prison Chimist (uncredited)
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
Fuga apasionada
Henchman in Car
Una bailarina de cabaret presencia un asesinato y es obligada a esconderse de unos gángsters y disfrazarse de un estudiante de Princeton.
Cocktail musical
Oscar - Eddie's Valet
Un cantante duda entre dos mujeres, una "buena" y otra "mala".
Night of Terror
Martin
The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.
Casada por azar
Porter
Caballeros de buena posición económica son reclutados por Kay Everly para que participen en una partida de póker con Jerry Stewart, un jugador profesional. La partida está estrechamente vigilada por el detective Collins, pero no consigue pruebas que le permitan arrestarlos.
Trece mujeres
Trece mujeres que fueron compañeras de escuela piden a un swami que les haga sus horóscopos. Las noticias que reciben no son buenas para ninguna de ellas…
Madame Racketeer
Train Porter
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
By Whose Hand?
Pullman Porter (uncredited)
A man tries to hide aboard a moving train after murdering a jewelry magnate.
A Holy Terror
Stuttering Servant (uncredited)
Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous.
Quick Millions
Oscar, Bugs' Valet (uncredited)
El conductor de camiones Bugs Raymond organiza a las asociaciones de camioneros y se hace con dinero a cambio de protección. Una vez enriquecido, decide casarse con la dama de la alta sociedad Dorothy Stone. Ella le rechaza, en favor de otro hombre, así que él planea secuestrarla el día de su boda.
Finn and Hattie
Colored Man
The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who wears the pants in the family - it's their daughter Mildred. Her parents often proclaim she is a genius - but she is just smarter than them, which wouldn't be too hard! On the train, Finn meets shyster Harry who sizes Finn up as a sucker and quickly wires his partner Bessie, aka "The Princess" to make Finn's acquaintance and take him for everything he has.
High C's
Negro Soldier
The comic and musical adventures of Charley Chase as he fights in the great war.
Let's Go Native
Cook (uncredited)
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
Shadow of the Law
Elevator Operator
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
Darkened Rooms
Oscar
Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a fraudulent medium working in cahoots with genuine clairvoyant Emory Jago (Neil Hamilton). The plotline is secondary; the film's main purpose was to emulate the methods of such professional "de-bunkers" as Mrs. Harry Houdini by exposing the various tricks of the spiritualist's trade.
Close Harmony
George Washington Brown
Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together an unusual jazz band, and uses her influence to get him a place on one of the programs. Max Mindel, the house manager, has a yen for Marjorie and, discovering that she is in love with Al, gives the band notice and hires harmony singers Barney & Bey as a replacement. Marjorie makes up to both men and soon breaks up the team. Al learns of her scheme, however, and makes her confess to the singers. Barney and Bey make up, and Max gives Al and his band one more chance. Al is a sensation, and Max offers him a contract for $1,000 a week.
The Canary Murder Case
Stuttering Hallboy (uncredited)
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer. Written by Tony Fontana
Hold 'Em Yale
Black Butler
Un joven argentino de buena familia se traslada a Yale para cursar sus estudios. Allí conocerá a la hija del director de la universidad y su enamoramiento le llevará a convertirse en una estrella del fútbol americano, no sin antes vivir algún episodio poco afortunado.
Midnight Madness
Manubo
In Midnight Madness millionaire diamond miner Michael Bream (Clive Brook) discovers that the woman he’s marrying — funfair shooting-gallery hostess Norma Forbes — is a gold digger. So Bream decides to teach her a lesson, and forces her to live with him in the remote African outback where, eventually, she realizes her true affections.
Behind the Counter
The Chauffeur
Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums.
Beau Sabreur
Djikki
Un miembro de la Legión extranjera francesa descubre a un traidor entre sus filas y luego es enviado a una misión entre los árabes para lograr la firma de un Tratado de paz crucial.
The Wizard
Sam
A mad doctor sews human head onto gorilla's body.
Man Power
Ptomaine
Caterpillar-tractor operator Tom Roberts' mission is to deliver a fragile cargo of dynamite, to be denoted for the purposes of redirecting an anticipated flood.
The Marriage Clause
Sam
Una actriz de Broadway se convierte en una gran estrella gracias a la forma en la que trabaja con el director. Los dos se acaban enamorando, pero no pueden casarse debido a una cláusula en sus contratos, escrita por el productor.
¡Ay, mi madre!
James
Harold Lloyd es un caprichoso millonario que puede permitirse el lujo de destrozar dos coches y tirar de chequera para adquirir uno nuevo. Su estilo de vida contrasta con el de un predicador y su hija, que dan de comer en una barriada pobre. Una serie de equívocos conducen a que Harold se convierta en involuntario benefactor de los desheredados.
The Golden Strain
Snowball
Lt. Milt Mulford graduates from West Point and is assigned to a cavalry outpost in the West, near an Apache reservation. One day the Apaches, tired of being cheated by a crooked Indian agent, break the reservation and Mulford is sent after them with a patrol. Unfortunately, he cracks under the pressure of his first firefight, and is thrown out of the army. His fiancé, disgusted, ends their engagement. He sets out to prove that he is not a coward and regain his fiancé's love.
El estudiante novato
Dean's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Harold Lamb es un estudiante novato dispuesto a todo para hacerse popular en la universidad.