Paul McVey

Paul McVey

Nacimiento : 1898-03-17,

Perfil

Paul McVey

Películas

El último hurra
Banker (uncredited)
En un mundo cambiante en el que la televisión se ha convertido en la principal fuente de información, Adam Caulfield, un joven periodista deportivo, es testigo de cómo su tío, Frank Skeffington, un veterano y honesto político, alcalde de una ciudad de Nueva Inglaterra, intenta ser reelegido mientras banqueros y empresarios conspiran en la sombra para colocar en el ayuntamiento a un candidato débil y manejable.
Raíces profundas
Sam Grafton
Alabama, finales del siglo XIX. Shane, un hastiado pistolero, llega a la granja de los Starretts, un matrimonio con un hijo que, al igual que los demás campesinos del valle, se encuentra en graves dificultades, pues el poderoso ganadero Rufus Ryker pretende apoderarse de sus tierras. Cuando Ryker se entera de que Shane es un hábil pistolero, le propone que trabaje para él. Ante su negativa, contrata a Jack Wilson, un peligroso asesino a sueldo.
Vuelve, pequeña Sheba
Postman
Lola (Shirley Booth), es la descuidada esposa de Doc Delaney (Burt Lancaster), un alcohólico en vías de recuperación. La existencia de los Delaney resulta monótona y sin cambios, pero da un giro cuando el matrimonio acepta a una encantadora inquilina, Marie (Terry Moore). Marie se convierte en la hija que nunca tuvieron. Pero cuando la joven se enamora, Doc se ve preso de los celos y una vez más ha de enfrentarse a la tentación de la bebida... (FILMAFFINITY)
Bwana, diablo de la selva
Commissioner
Los trabajadores ferroviarios británicos en Kenia se están convirtiendo en el bocado favorito de los dos leones devoradores de hombres. El jefe ingeniero Bob Hayward se obsesiona con tratar de matar a las bestias antes de que mutilen a todos los miembros de su equipo.
¿Alguien ha visto a mi chica?
Lester Pennock
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.
Prohibido el paso al novio
Alvah (Tony Curtis), un chico de una pequeña localidad, viaja a Las Vegas con Lee (Piper Laurie), la hija de su ama de llaves. Uno de los films menos conocidos de Douglas Sirk. Se basa en la novela "My True Love", de Darwin L. Teihet.
The Lady Pays Off
Speaker
The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her debts, casino manager Matt Braddock asks her to take care of his sad little daughter Diana.
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Harold Masterson
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
La fuerza del destino
Hobe Wheelock
Joe Morse trabaja como abogado para Ben Tucker, un hombre que se ha enriquecido gracias a un negocio ilegal de apuestas. Para asegurar y ampliar sus maniobras necesitan dar un golpe que implique la desaparición de todos los pequeños bancos de apuestas clandestinos. Uno de ellos esta dirigido por el hermano de Joe Morse.
Smart Guy
Kilbourne
A gambler is about to stand trial for a crime he actually didn't commit. In order to brush up his "image", he adopts an orphaned newsboy.
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Uncle Adam
Murders result from an uncle's wish to eliminate beneficiaries to a will.
Crazy House
Studio Executive
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.
Spy Train
Hugo Molte
People on a train want what's in a Nazi spy bag, unaware it's a time bomb.
Dixie
Headwaiter (uncredited)
Un joven compositor abandona su Kentucky natal para triunfar en Nueva Orleans. Acaba en nueva York, donde vende sus canciones a una editora musical, pero se niega a vender su más atesorada canción, "Dixie".
Keep 'Em Slugging
Mr. Meecham
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Silver Skates
Roscoe Hayes
The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts.
You Can't Beat the Law
Wayne - Death Row Inmate
A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. There he becomes pals with the prison's most hardened criminal, who plans a daring escape.
The Living Ghost
Ed Moline
A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.
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.
Brooklyn Orchid
Party Gest
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
Fly-By-Night
Cop on Small Town Street (Uncredited)
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
Pacific Blackout
Civil Defense Official
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper (Robert Preston) escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Remember the Day
Jeweler
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Justicia corsa
Cousin Philip Franchi (Uncredited)
El conde Franchi tiene dos hijos gemelos. Cuando el barón Colonna decide exterminar a la familia Franchi, el doctor Paoli escapa con los dos bebés.
New York Town
Gentleman on Boat (uncredited)
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
The Officer and the Lady
Dad (uncredited)
A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
Harmon of Michigan
Alumni Committee Man
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
Our Wife
Minor Role (uncredited)
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Kenneth North
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
Phantom of Chinatown
Detective Grady
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on.
King of the Royal Mounted
Zarnoff
The Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile paralysis. When a country at war with Canada learns that Compound X also contains magnetic properties that could aid them in their warfare against the British, they send agents to infiltrate Canada and steal a large quantity of the substance. It's up to Sgt. King (Allan Lane) and his Mounties to track down the agents and put an end to their scheme.
El extraño del tercer piso
Detective Lieutenant Jones (uncredited)
El testimonio de un periodista sirve para llevar a un joven a la silla eléctrica. El reportero, torturado por las dudas acerca de su culpabilidad, cae en una telaraña de falsas pruebas que le señalan, ahora a él, como presunto autor de un nuevo crimen...
El regreso del Santo
Detective Phillips
El Santo regresa a la acción para ayudar a un viejo amigo suyo el Inspector Fernack, acosado por un grupo de mafiosos.
La reina de la canción
Stage Manager
Biopic sobre la estrella de la música Lillian Russell, descubierta en 1890 por Tony Pastor, hasta su retiro en 1912 cuando se casó con el periodista Alexander Moore.
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Mrs. Pendleton's Doctor
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.
Con su misma arma
Policeman
Dos abogados (Pat O’Brien y Broaderick Crawford) se aprovechan de unos escándalos políticos en la administración de carreteras para hacer negocios. Dodd, una bella divorciada implicada en el escándalo, es hallada muerta con un cuchillo clavado a su espalda. O'Brien toma la determinación de resolver los crímenes por su cuenta y riesgo, pero a cada paso que da los problemas se agravan...
Barricade
Copy Reader
In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
Corazones indomables
Capt. Mark Demooth
Albany, Nueva York, 1776. Después de casarse, Gil y Lana viajan al norte para instalarse en una pequeña granja en el valle del río Mohawk; pero pronto su creciente prosperidad y felicidad se ven amenazadas por el siniestro sonido de los tambores que anuncian oscuros tiempos de revolución y guerra.
Enterrado vivo
Jim Henderson
Centra su argumento en la lucha del alcaide de una prisión por intentar avanzar en la aplicación de normas que consigan mitigar la dureza de la vida en sus instalaciones. En su ámbito de dirección se dan cita una serie de personajes, entre los que destaca la presencia del atormentado verdugo, un joven médico y un sacerdote. A todos ellos les une su secreta admiración hacia la enfermera Joan Wright (Beverly Roberts), hacia quien desean acercarse, quizá por representar un único asidero dentro del entorno sórdido en que desarrollan su labor. Pero los sentimientos de la joven. Finalmente se inclinarán hacia la figura de joven recluso Johnny Martin (Robert Wilcox).
Hollywood Cavalcade
Stage Manager
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Inside Information
Carl Crawford
A rookie cop and his girlfriend's uncle, a police captain, disagree on the methods that should be used to catch criminals.
Sergeant Madden
Assistant Commissioner
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Panama Patrol
Baird
A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.
La diligencia
Pony Express Agent (uncredited)
Personajes muy variopintos emprenden un largo, duro y peligroso viaje en diligencia. Entre ellos, un fuera de la ley en busca de venganza, una prostituta a la que han echado del pueblo, un jugador, un médico, la mujer embarazada de un militar y un sheriff. Las relaciones entre ellos serán difíciles y tensas. Además, durante el viaje, tendrán que afrontar el ataque de una partida de indios apaches.
Meet the Girls
First Mate Collins
Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.
The Night Hawk
Larsen
Gangster Charlie McCormick despairs as his young brother Bobby lays near death and vows to break the quarantine of the ocean liner Pacific Queen in order to retrieve the iron lung Bobby needs. Meanwhile, newspaper editor Lonigan searches for reporter Slim Torrence, because Slim is friends with Tom Niles, the customs officer on the verge of cracking a whiskey smuggling case. Lonigan is about to send another reporter to cover the story when Della Parrish, the publisher's daughter, assures him that she can locate Slim. With the help of Slim's young photographer, Willie Sing, Della finds Slim in a waterfront dive, and Willie and Slim sneak aboard the Pacific Queen to find Niles. Niles hints that McCormick is the head of the smuggling ring and promises Slim an exclusive when he breaks the story the next day.
Straight, Place and Show
Steeplechase Announcer
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
Passport Husband
H.C. Walton
At the Club Habana, Henry Cabot, a bumbling busboy, is infatuated with the club's dancer, Conchita Montez. As Tiger Martin, the leader of a gang of thieves, gives Conchita a diamond bracelet, he is arrested. After Tiger is deported, Duke Selton, of Tiger's gang, pays a visit to Conchita and tells her he believes that Blackie Bennet, the leader of a rival gang, is responsible for tipping off the police about Tiger's citizenship.
Josette
Hotel Manager
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
One Wild Night
George Wallace (uncredited)
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
Safety in Numbers
Mr. Hensley
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor (Prouty), is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Cuatro hombres y una plegaria
Sanders (uncredited)
Tres jóvenes hombres buscan al asesino que mató a su padre, un hombre al que admiraban mucho. Su viaje les lleva desde la India hasta América del Sur, Londres, Egipto, y EE.UU. Mientras avanzan en sus investigaciones, empiezan a descubrir la verdad oculta y perturbadora sobre la muerte de su padre
Walking Down Broadway
Doctor
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.
International Settlement
Purser
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
One Mile From Heaven
Johnny
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
You Can't Have Everything
Undetermined Role
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
She Had to Eat
Captain McBurn (uncredited)
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
Angel's Holiday
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.
La contraseña
Roosevelt's Secretary
Un exoficial de la Marina, empleado del presidente McKinley a principios del siglo XX, lucha contra una poderosa organización criminal que ha hecho del atraco a entidades bancarias su principal fuente de financiación.
Midnight Taxi
Robert Powers (photograph)
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
Fair Warning
Mr. Berkhardt
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
Amor y periodismo
Alvord
La labor del periodista Steven Leyton es husmear en las vidas privadas, y a su modo de ver, frívolas y ociosas, de los ricos. Un día, Tony Gateson, una rica heredera hija del financiero Gateson y uno de sus personajes favoritos, decide pagarle con la misma moneda al anunciar su próximo compromiso con el joven. A partir de ese momento, cada detalle de la vida de Leyton será también de interés público.
Time Out for Romance
Ship's Officer
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Stowaway
Second Mate
Chin-Ching se pierde en Shanghai y se hace amigo del playboy estadounidense Tommy Randall. Ella se queda dormida en su auto, que termina en un barco que se dirige a América. Susan Parker, también en el barco, se casa con Randall para dar una familia a Chin-Ching.
Sing, Baby, Sing
Doctor
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
To Mary - with Love
Guest
Crónica de la vida de un matrimonio (Warner Baxter y Mirna Loy) en la época de la Gran Depresión.
36 Hours to Kill
G-Man
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
Sins of Man
Army Doctor
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
La esposa anónima
Court Clerk (Uncredited)
Una historia romántica sobre diferencia de clases que tiene lugar cuando un rico aristócrata llamado Richard Winfield se enamora de una sirvienta. La familia queda horrorizada de que la chica pueda entrar a formar parte de ella, así que hará todo lo posible por impedirlo.
Contrabando humano
Ship's Officer
Dos reporteros de periódicos rivales se alían para acabar con una banda de contrabandistas que introduce emigrantes ilegales en Estados Unidos con la intención de extorsionarlos.
The Country Doctor
Mark, a Logger (uncredited)
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
Prisionero del odio
General Hunter
Después de curar la pierna del magnicida John Wilkes Booth, responsable del asesinato del presidente Abraham Lincoln, perpetrado el 14 de abril de 1865, durante una representación en el Teatro Ford de Washington; el Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considerado parte de la atroz conspiración, es condenado a cadena perpetua y enviado a la siniestra prisión de Shark Island.
My Marriage
Detective
When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.
Guerra sin cuartel
Dr. Peterson (uncredited)
Cuando Hudson y Norris entran a una casa de campo para resguardarse de la lluvia, resulta ser un escondite de secuestradores.
La magia de la música
Theatre Spectator (uncredited)
Una actriz de cierta edad reconoce al fin la verdad cuando la sustituyen por una corista.
La alegre mentira
Sweepstake Announcer (uncredited)
Mirabel es una joven que gana 5.000 dólares en la lotería, lo que le permite vivir a cuerpo de rey en Nueva York. Un día conoce a Sandro, un apuesto muchacho que trabaja como botones; pero las cosas no son lo que parecen.
The Daring Young Man
Fire Chief
Dos reporteros planean casarse, pero la novia se queda esperando en el altar porque su novio se ha infiltrado para exponer la actividad de las pandillas.
La vida comienza a los cuarenta
Judge
Un periodista (Will Rogers) vence a un banquero y limpia el nombre de un joven (Richard Cromwell) acusado de robo.
Caravan
Townsman (Uncredited)
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
El valor de Charlie Chan
Director
Charlie Chan es contratado para entregar un collar de perlas a un millonario en su rancho. Cuando interviene el asesinato, se disfraza de criado chino y empieza a investigar.
Baby Take a Bow
Daniel (Uncredited)
Eddie Ellison es un ex convicto que pasó un tiempo en la prisión de Sing-Sing. Kay se casa con él tan pronto como cumple su hora. Cinco años después, Eddie y su ex compañero convicto Larry, ambos se han ido, y Eddie y Kay tienen una hermosa niña llamada Shirley. Sin embargo, Welch ha mantenido una estrecha vigilancia sobre ellos durante años. Él cree en "una vez un criminal, siempre un criminal". Luego, cuando las perlas de la esposa del empleador de Eddie se pierden, resulta que Eddie y Larry pasaron un tiempo en prisión y fueron despedidos. Welch sospecha que Eddie y Larry tienen algo que ver con el robo de las perlas. ¿Probará Welch que Eddie y Larry tuvieron algo que ver con el robo o prevalecerá la verdad?
Aprendió de los marinos
Hotel Clerk
Jean, que canta en un club nocturno de Shanghai, se enamora de un marino, pero él parte hacia Estados Unidos y le escribe una carta para comunicarle que no puede mantenerla. Dos chistosos interceptan la carta y la reescriben en sentido opuesto...
Mr. Skitch
Gambling House Patron
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
Below the Sea
Shipboard Party Guest
A wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions.