Fred Howard

Nacimiento : 1899-01-03, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Muerte : 1960-04-21

Películas

D-Day on Mars
Prof. Crandal
This is a shortened version of the 1945 Republic serial "The Purple Monster Strikes," which was released to television in 1966.
Adiós, mi amor
Congressman (Uncredited)
La periodista, corresponsal de guerra y congresista Agatha Reed vuelve a la escuela donde transcurrió su juventud, para recoger un título honorífico, institución de la que fue expulsada en el pasado. Una vez allí, trata de reanudar el romance que había mantenido con su antiguo profesor, que ahora es el director del centro. Pero sus planes se ven amenazados cuando reaparece su último ex novio, también periodista y fotógrafo, quien intentará desbaratar sus planes.
Atraco al furgón blindado
Dr. Leslie (uncredited)
Dave Purvis es un meticuloso y cauto atracador que prepara su próximo golpe: robar el dinero de un furgón blindado. Pero durante el atraco, algo falla y uno de sus compinches y un policía mueren, mientras el resto del grupo consigue huir. El teniente Cordell intentará encontrar a los forajidos vengar la muerte de su compañero asesinado.
Con acento francés
Newsman (uncredited)
Douglas Sirk, el rey del melodrama desgarrador, dirige una comedia musical, sustentada por unos actores de múltiples recursos, sobre las dificultades de la pronunciación francesa. Ameche se empeña en que Lamour se haga pasar por una actriz nacida en la tierra de L'amour.
The Last Crooked Mile
Coroner
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
Passkey to Danger
Coroner
An advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious characters.
Hitchhike to Happiness
In this drama, an aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it big. Only an aspiring songwriter, and a former waitress who has become a famous Hollywood radio star, really believe in him. When the ex-waitress drops by the restaurant to say hello, she and the others decide to play a trick on an arrogant producer by making him believe the waiter has written a sure-fire hit. They succeed and the producer puts on the show. The singer gets to be the star. When the show becomes a smash, everyone is surprised. Songs include: "Hitchhike To Happiness," "For You And Me," "Sentimental," and "My Pushover Heart."
The Vampire's Ghost
Sailor
In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a old man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life" of the past few hundred years.
One Mysterious Night
Reporter (Uncredited)
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
Code of the Prairie
Just after the Oklahoma Panhandle was annexed into the united states an ex-lawman turned newspaper man arrives to town to civilize it. He brings along Frog, a photographer and Sunset Carson as muscle. The seedy element in the territory doesn't want law and order and they plot against them and try to stop Sunset Carson being sheriff.
Bajo la lluvia
Hodgson
Debido a una extraña epidemia, los pasajeros de un barco son obligados a desembarcar en una isla. Entre ellos se encuentran una prostituta y un misionero que la acosa.
A Successful Calamity
Reporter at Train (uncredited)
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
The Guilty Generation
Bradley (as Frederick Howard)
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
Un gran reportaje
Schwartz
Hildy es un periodista que está a punto de dejar su empleo para irse a Nueva York. Para impedir que se vaya su mejor reportero, el director del periódico le encarga el reportaje de su vida: el caso de un condenado a muerte que ha huido de prisión. Primera adaptación cinematográfica de la obra de teatro de Ben Hecht y Charles MacArthur "The Front Page". La segunda adaptación ("Luna Nueva", 1940) la dirigió Howard Hawks. La tercera ("Primera Plana", 1974) fue obra de Billy Wilder. A Ted Kotcheff corresponde la cuarta versión ("Interferencias", 1988).
Millie
Freddie - Reporter (uncredited)
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men-- Men who once devoted their time to her mother.
Numbered Men
50134
Se trata de un melodrama adaptado de la obra teatral "Jailbreak" de Dwight Taylor, convertida en guión por el dúo Alfred A. Cohn y Henry McCarthy. En ella asistimos a bastantes tópicos dentro del género como el falso culpable (Raymond Hackett), el recluso que tiene un plan para escapar (Ralph Ince) y la chica de turno que aparece en la cárcel como si nada (Bernice Claire).
Thanksgiving Day
2nd Moving Man
Business is bad for doctors and undertakers, but it's Thanksgiving Day and luck might change.