Olin Francis

Olin Francis

Nacimiento : 1891-09-13, Mooreville, Mississippi, USA

Muerte : 1952-06-30

Perfil

Olin Francis

Películas

Ciudadano Kane
Expressman (uncredited)
Un importante financiero estadounidense, Charles Foster Kane, dueño de una importante cadena de periódicos, de una red de emisoras, de dos sindicatos y de una inimaginable colección de obras de arte, muere en su fabuloso castillo de estilo oriental, Xanadú. La última palabra que pronuncia al expirar es Rosebud. El país entero y la prensa en general quedan intrigados por saber el significado de esta palabra. Para descubrirlo, un grupo de periodistas se pone a investigar.
Así acaba nuestra noche
Friend of Weiss (uncredited)
Tercer Reich (1933-1945). En 1939, Hitler provoca la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), al invadir Polonia. Empieza entonces una implacable persecución contra los judíos y los miembros de la oposición al nazismo. Para eludirla, tres disidentes políticos (Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan y Glenn Ford) se verán obligados a huir por toda Europa.
Rollin' Home to Texas
Marshal
This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey's oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to help the good-good guys capture the bad-bad guys." The warden of the Desert Wells Penitentiary asks Tex Reed and Slim to check the series of bank robberies which have been committed by escaped convicts. Lockwood, head of an opposing political machine, is behind the escapes and robberies, and the escapes are being planned by Red, a convict. Tex trails the next escapee but the hang shoots the man before Tex can question him. Jimmy, brother of Tex's girl friend Mary, is set up, by the gang, to be killed while robbing a bank by Carter who will collect a reward for shooting him. Jimmy is wounded but not killed and Tex arrests him to keep him safe. The gang now wants to get rid of Tex, so they send Red, dressed as a prison guard, with a fake message from the Warden for Tex.
Beyond the Sacramento
Convict Tom Jimpson
Bill learns that two con artists whom he has dealt with before are at it again. Crowley runs the saloon and Adams the newspaper and both are highly respected by the citizens. Bill has foiled their schemes before and this time he breaks into Adams' office and resets the front page saying Adams confesses to be a fugitive criminal. When the citizens gather the next day the end is near for Adams and Crowley.
Take Me Back to Oklahoma
Mule Bates
Storm is out to wreck Ace's stage line. When Tex arrives to help Ace, Storm brings in hired killer Mule Bates. But Tex and Bates know each other and the two devise a plan to fool Storm.
Deadwood Dick
Pete
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
A Failure at Fifty
Trader (uncredited)
The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.
Lucky Cisco Kid
Henchman
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
The Man from Tumbleweeds
Blake - Bearded Bank Robber
Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
Riders of Black River
Whit Kane - Henchman
Former Texas Ranger Wade Patterson (Starrett) returns to his home town, only to find that the territory is in the grip of cattle rustlers. For a while, it looks as though heroine Linda Holden (Meredith) is in cahoots with the bad guys, but Patterson quickly clears her name and takes on the crooks himself.
Riders of the Frontier
Henchman Sam
The Rancho Grande, a Texas border ranch, cut off from the law by a gang of outlaws led by ranch foreman Bart Lane, who is holding the elderly owner of the ranch, Sarah Burton, a prisoner. Tex Lowery (Tex Ritter), an undercover Texas Ranger, rescues Martha Williams, a nurse sent for by the ailing Sarah, from a stagecoach holdup by Lane's henchmen. He later convinces Laner that he is a wanted outlaw named Ed Carter, and gains entry to Rancho Grande. But the real Ed Carter shows up.
Unborn Souls
The crusading Dr. Kent tries to convince the district attorney to clean up the local abortion racket and help open a birth control clinic. But when Kent is dismissed from the hospital, the troubles actually begin.
Overland with Kit Carson
Pierre
When Pegleg and his Black Raiders threaten the westward expansion of the United States, the government sends Kit Carson and David Brent to straighten things out.
Captain Fury
Guard with Whip
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
The Night Riders
Army Enlistee Getting Socked
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.
Gunga Din
Fulad (uncredited)
Cutter, MacChesney y Ballantine, tres sargentos del ejército británico unidos por una estrecha amistad, son enviados a una zona montañosa de la India para averiguar las causas de la extraña interrupción de las comunicaciones telegráficas. Los tres vivirán, en compañía de Gunga Din, su porteador de agua, diversas aventuras que les enfrentarán a los temibles tags, una secta de adoradores de la diosa Kali. Descubrirán, además, un templo escondido, serán apresados y torturados y salvarán al ejército de caer en una trampa mortal.
Red River Range
Henchman Kenton
Ladrones de ganado muy organizados trabajan con mataderos portátiles y furgones refrigerados. El gobernador pide a los Tres Mesquiteros que investiguen.
Overland Stage Raiders
Stony, Tucson y Lullaby, "Los Tres Mosqueteros", deciden dejar sus negocios de la ganadería e invertir en el negocio de las aerolíneas. Compran un avión para enviar oro, pero el dueño de la aerolínea contrata a unos delincuentes para secuestrar el avión y quedarse con toda la riqueza. Los tres amigos tendrán que buscar el avión para recuperar todo su oro.
Knight of the Plains
Rancher
Peterson has a plan to obtain all the ranches in the valley. He gives Carson a phony Spanish land grant and has him pose as the Mexican owner. When Fred and Fuzzy have their cattle stolen by Peterson's men, they quickly become involved in the scheme.
Two Gun Justice
Blackie - Henchman
A western town is being overrun and ruled by a gang of outlaws led by Bart (John Merton). Former Ranger Tim (Tim McCoy) is called out of retirement and assigned to clean up the gang. He disguises himself as a Mexican bandit, joins the gang and works from within.
Rough Riding Rhythm
Jake Horne
When Jim and Scrubby arrive to see Scrubby's sister, they find her murdered and suspect it was her no good husband Jake. But Jake and his men have just robbed the stage and two dectectives arrive looking for them. Finding Jim and Scrubby instead, they assume them to be the outlaws and arrest them.
Silly Billies
Pioneer
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
I Conquer the Sea!
Gabe
1936 was a different world in Newfoundland - the bigotry and the unexpected ending will give you plenty to talk about and think about in this forgotten masterpiece of human drama.
The Irish Gringo
Rawlins - Henchman
A half Mexican, half Irish gunman called The Irish Gringo and his pals come across a little girl wandering in the desert. It turns out her grandfather was murdered by a gang looking for the Lost Dutchman mine, a map of which is drawn on the shirt she is wearing, and now the outlaws are after her.
Lightning Range
Black Pete
Hester and Hezekiah plan to get Dorothy Horton's inheritance. But when Pete and his men rob the stage they learn of the scheme and send Jim to replace Hezekiah. The Deputy Marshal breaks this up but Black Pete arrives wearing the Marshal's badge and has the Sheriff take him away while he flees with the inheritance money.
The Fighting Cowboy
Bartender
Bill Carson arrives and tells Cash Horton that his supposedly worthless mine contains valuable tungsten. Duke learns of the mine's value and tries to have them both killed. Failing, he has the Sheriff arrest Bill for murder. Unknown to Bill and the Sheriff, the victim is alive and well.
The Penal Code
McCarthy
A man is released from prison and tries to get back into life on the outside without his family and friends knowing he's been in jail.
Afraid to Talk
Prison Hospital Guard
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
Out of Singapore
Seaman Bill
While a ship's captain is being slowly poisoned, a gang of thugs try to take over the ship.
45 Calibre Echo
Burly Henchman
A cowhand and his sidekick come to the Texas border country looking for the man who had lured the cowhand's sister in bondage in Mexico. But the man doesn't want to be found and has hired some gunmen to see that he isn't.
Air Eagles
Guard
Two former WWI aces from opposite sides, Bill Ramsey and Otto Shumann, in the best tradition of Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron, barnstorm their way across the Poverty Row skies of middle-America while competing for daredevil honors and the favors of the lovely Eve.
The Law of the Tong
Dance Hall Customer
A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese aliens into the country.
Lariats and Six-Shooters
A gang of jewel smugglers swears to take revenge on a deputy sheriff after his dogged pursuit of them forces them to flee without their goods.
Win That Girl
Larry Brawn II
A gridiron rivalry between two colleges is entering its third generation, and the Norton family (father and grandfather were members of teams defeated by rival squads captained by members of the Brawn family) rears Johnny Norton, 3d, to be a star football player. The lad is underweight, however, and initially shows a talent only for drop kicking. During the big game, Johnny is substituted for another player and leads his team to victory, winning for himself the love of Gloria Havens.
El hermanito
Olin Hickory
Harold es un muchacho algo tímido y simplón a quien su padre, el sheriff Hickory, considera y trata como a un niño. Pero cuando Hickory es acusado de haberse adueñado del dinero que la comunidad le había confiado, Harold se lanzará a la busca y captura de los ladrones.
Pioneers of the West
Black Eagle
Caught by the Piutes, pony Express Rider Dick Carter falls in love with pretty Dorothy Earle, who belongs to that seemingly endless supply of white girls kidnapped in childhood and raised by Indians. Unfortunately, Dorothy is promised to Bud Osborne, described in a title as "a renegade white who dominates the simple minds of the savage horde." Does Dorothy succeed in taking her own life rather than face an uncertain future with evil Bud? Or does the stalwart Dick rescue her in time?
The Powerful Eye
Hurley - the Master Magician