Billy Mitchell

Nacimiento : 1889-07-28, Georgia, USA

Muerte : 1952-07-09

Historia

Billy Mitchell was born on July 28, 1889 in Georgia, USA as Frank Melvin Mitchell. He was an actor, known for Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle (1941), When the Wife's Away (1946) and Misbehaving Husbands (1940). He died on July 9, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Películas

The Tall Target
Hawker (uncredited)
Abraham Lincoln viajará en tren a Washington con motivo de su investidura y, aprovechando la ocasión, se está tramando un complot para asesinarlo a su paso por Baltimore. El detective de Nueva York John Kennedy (Dick Powell) intenta alertar a sus superiores sobre el plan, pero sus sospechas se desestiman. Entonces decide subir al tren para intentar frustrar el asesinato él mismo. No está seguro en quién confiar, pero encuentra un aliado potencial en Ginny Beaufort (Paula Raymond), la hermana de uno de los conspiradores.
Rock Island Trail
Carriage Driver
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
Sucede todas las primaveras
Sweeper Outside Carob Hotel (uncredited)
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
Pick a Peck of Plumbers
Pinkerton--Butler (uncredited)
After backing over a police motorcycle, Axel and Elmer are fined $100 and given 48 hours to come up with the money or go to jail. Knowing nothing about plumbing, they answer Mr. Skunkem's ad for plumber's assistants, and are sent to the Dinwitty estate to recover a diamond ring from a drain pipe. In due course they destroy the bathroom, and switch the gas and water lines, disrupting Mrs. Dinwitty's bridge party, Vanillia's dinner preparation, and the gardener's lawn watering.
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.
Como ella sola
Black Man in Jail (uncredited)
Una neurótica mujer, emocionalmente desequilibrada, arruina la vida de todas las personas que se cruzan en su camino, hasta el punto de que las consecuencias de su comportamiento llegan a ser trágicas.
Frisco Lil
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love with lawyer Brewster.
Professor Creeps
Schenectady
Two cut-rate private detectives are broke, hungry and down to their last nickel. They decide to hock their banjo in order to get some money for food, and while one partner is negotiating the deal, the other one falls asleep and dreams that a wealthy society matron has hired them to investigate a string of suitors.
Mr. District Attorney
Hotel Desk Clerk
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
Misbehaving Husbands
Memphis
Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman".
Romeo in Rhythm
Romeo Crow (voice) (uncredited)
This cartoon is by Rudy Ising, and is the last of a long line of black animal musicals done at MGM in the late 30s and early 40s.