Richard Denning

Richard Denning

Nacimiento : 1914-03-27, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

Muerte : 1998-10-11

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Richard Denning (March 27, 1914 – October 11, 1998) was an American actor who starred in such movies as Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) and An Affair to Remember (1957), and on radio with Lucille Ball as her husband George Cooper in My Favorite Husband (1948–1951), the forerunner of television's I Love Lucy, for which Denning was replaced by Ball's real-life husband, Desi Arnaz. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Denning, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Richard Denning

Películas

María, reina de Escocia
Francis, King of France
Cuando Isabel I (1558-1603), hija de Enrique VIII y Ana Bolena, se convierte en reina de Inglaterra y cabeza de la Iglesia anglicana, tropieza con la oposición de los católicos, que consideran que la legítima heredera del trono inglés es su prima María Estuardo (Vanessa Redgrave), la católica reina de Escocia. Tras el triunfo de los protestantes escoceses, María se ve obligada a abdicar en favor de su hijo Jacobo, pero, poco después, comete el error de huir a Inglaterra, donde es encarcelada y procesada por orden de su prima Isabel (Glenda Jackson), que nunca dejó de considerarla una amenaza.
I Sailed to Tahiti with an All Girl Crew
Commodore
It's silliness on the high seas as two sneaky sailors race across the South Pacific in this fast-paced and campy comedy. The fun begins when one bets the other $20,000 that he, with an all girl crew, be the first to Tahiti in a sailboat race. The other, not to be outdone, has a few monkeyshines up his sleeve and actually wins the race. The beaten bettor then makes the claim, that he can beat the victor to the mainland using a crew comprised of baboons. That is too much to resist for the other and the race is on.
The Movie Orgy
Self (archival footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Alice's Father
Adaptación para TV de "Alicia a través del espejo".
Un trío de terror
Jonathan Maulle
Adaptación de varios cuentos de Nathaniel Hawthorne.
No Greater Love
Dr. George Lund
A dentist and his wife join Christian missionaries for duty in Africa.
Desert Hell
Sgt. Major Pierre Benet
This melodrama tells the tale of a great battle between the French Foreign Legion and the rebellious Arab tribe, the Tuaregs, who fight it out upon the blistering Sahara sands. Just before the Legionnaires embark upon their dangerous mission, the commander discovers that he is being cuckolded by his lieutenant. Because the mission is urgent, there is no time to fight over the commander's wife. Unfortunately, as they travel, the tension between the two mounts and they begin squabbling over how to plan the attack. Their inability to work together results in tragedy.
Escala en Tokio
Al Reynolds
Dos aviadores, Mike y Al, a quienes une una vieja amistad que data desde la guerra, cuando prestaban servicio militar en la misma escuadrilla aérea, se dedican en la vida civil a menesteres diversos. Mike es piloto civil y Al dirige una escuela de aviación.
El escorpión negro
Hank Scott
Un ejército de gigantescos escorpiones prehistóricos, que abandonaron las cavernas subterráneas en que vivían debido a una serie de explosiones volcánicas, invade México D.F. un grupo de científicos, encabezados por Richard Denning, intentarán exterminarlos.
Tú y yo
Kenneth Bradley
Un elegante playboy y una bella cantante de un club nocturno se conocen a bordo de un lujoso transatlántico y surge entre ellos un apasionado romance. Aunque ambos están comprometidos (ella es la amante de un magnate y él se va a casar con una rica heredera), establecen un pacto antes de abandonar el barco: encontrarse en el Empire State Building en un plazo de seis meses si siguen sintiendo lo mismo el uno por el otro.
The Buckskin Lady
Dr. Bruce Merritt
Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Angela Medley, who is forced by circumstances to align herself with outlaw Slinger. But Angela has never gotten over her love for honest frontier doctor Bruce Merritt, and at the first opportunity she redeems herself by catching a bullet intended for the doc. Henry Hull delivers the film's most memorable performance as Angela's drunken wretch of a father. Per the title, Buckskin Lady affords the viewer ample opportunity to see Patricia Medina in form-fitting western garb.
Naked Paradise
Duke Bradley
Gangster Zac Cotton and his two henchmen, Mitch and Sonny, try to get a boat to get off a tropical island after a botched robbery heist.
Assignment Redhead
Major Gregory Keen
An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.
Girls in Prison
Rev. Fulton
Anne Carson (Joan Taylor) es enviada a una cárcel de mujeres por su presunta participación en un atraco a un banco con otros dos, entre ellos Paul Anderson (Lance Fuller), que sigue en libertad. El dinero nunca fue recuperado y todos los ojos están puestos sobre Anne que niega saber el paradero del dinero.
The Oklahoma Woman
Steve Ward
After six years in jail Steve returns to claim a ranch left him in a will. The town is in the middle of a rough election masterminded by saloon owner Marie. Steve is soon on the side of the opposition candidate and his pretty daughter. The town's tough sheriff is on no-one's side, least of all Steve's
El día del fin del mundo
Rick
Las peores pesadillas se hacen realidad para un grupo de siete personas, que han sobrevivido a un holocausto nuclear. Desde su refugio en la montaña observan cómo plantas y animales empiezan a sufrir monstruosas mutaciones por efecto de la radiactividad. La supervivencia del grupo depende de su inteligencia para enfrentarse a grandes mutantes caníbales.
The Crooked Web
Frank Daniel
Undercover agents investigate a murderer in Chicago.
El rifle que conquistó el oeste
'Dakota' Jack Gaines
Durante la construcción de las vías del ferrocarril en la zona sioux del territorio de Wyoming, se edifican una cadena de fuertes por toda la zona para poder defenderse del ataque indio. A la cabeza de la misión está Jack Gaines, con su nuevo rifle modelo Springfield.
La criatura con el cerebro atómico
Dr. Chet Walker
Un gángster financia a un científico para crear cadáveres revividos con fuerza sobrehumana, que el primero utiliza con fines de venganza. La policía está desconcertada, puesto que las pruebas químicas apuntan a la naturaleza irreal de los crímenes.
Santos el magnífico
Mark Russell
Luis Santos es un experto e idolatrado torero al que contratan para que adiestre al joven Rafael Reyes. En el Santuario de Guadalupe conoce a Karen Harrison, una bella y rica mujer norteamericana.
Air Strike
Stanley Blair
Tasked with training a group of untested new recruits, a no-nonsense Navy commander faces a host of challenges as he attempts to transform the greenhorns into a squadron of crackerjack jet pilots. Don Haggerty co-stars as the unit's second-in-command who clashes bitterly with the cocky young upstart of the team after the lad shows off with some reckless aerial acrobatics.
Los invasores de otros mundos
Frank Brooks
Nora King se despierta luego de un intento de suicidio con pastillas somníferas. Pero al salir de su habitación descubre que todas las calles de la ciudad se encuentran desiertas. Nora se topa con Frank Brooks, un forastero que acaba de recuperar la conciencia luego de un intento de robo la noche anterior. Ambos deambulan por la metrópoli intentan ubicar otros supervivientes o siquiera una radio que les alerte sobre lo que está sucediendo. Pero al hallar varios cadáveres, algunos autos con los motores desarmados, y los edificios intactos, Nora y Frank llegan a la conclusión que la ciudad fue evacuada de emergencia en vísperas de una ataque. Junto con otros sobrevivientes intentan salir de la urbe; pero terminan por toparse con lo que parece ser una avanzada alienígena que esta cubriendo la ciudad y es indetenible. Y ahora el grupo deberá ocultarse como puede mientras esperan que el ejército pueda rechazar lo que parece ser el inicio de una invasión extraterrestre.
La batalla de Rogue River
Stacey Wyatt
Durante años, el ejército ha sufrido los ataques de los indios de Oregón. El nuevo comandante, el Mayor Archer, será destinado a la zona para acabar de una vez por todas con estos enfrentamientos.
La mujer y el monstruo
Dr. Mark Williams
Una expedición científica en busca de fósiles en el río Amazonas es interrumpida por un sorprendente e inesperado hallazgo: Gill-Man el legendario monstruo de la laguna negra. Los exploradores capturan a la criatura con fines de investigación, pero el engendro logra escapar. Entre el miedo y el caos desatado por el desconocido paradero en el que puede hallarse Gill-Man, éste vuelve para secuestra a la preciosa Kay, prometida de uno de los investigadores de la expedición, de la cual el animal se ha enamorado.
Jivaro
Jerry Russell
At Rio Galdez's remote Brazilian trading post live assorted outcast Americans and Europeans, including Jerry Russell, ex-engineer who became obsessed with the Jivaro headhunters' treasure, quit his job, and took up with the bottle and local girl Maroa. But he still gets letters from his nominal fiancée in California, and unexpectedly the shapely, glamorous Alice Parker arrives, expecting to marry a rich planter. Disillusioned, Alice is almost ready to fall into Rio's arms when news comes that Jerry is missing in Jivaro country.
The Glass Web
Dave Markson
The ice-cold diva Paula ruthlessly exploits the guys she dates. While blackmailing the married Don with a recent one-night-stand, she has a secret affair with Henry, who works as researcher for the weekly authentic TV show "Crime of the Week", which Don writes for. When Henry fails to help her to a role, she insults him deadly... and ends up dead herself. Now Don desperately tries to hide his traces, but Henry sabotages his efforts and suggests he write the unsolved murder case for next week's show...
The 49th Man
Chief Investigator Paul Reagan
Two federal agents do not believe an atomic-bomb threat is just another war game.
Target Hong Kong
Mike Lassiter
Yankee soldiers-of-fortune smash a spy plot aimed at seizing Hong Kong.
Los forasteros
Lee Kemper
El comandante Matt Stewart y un grupo de soldados confederados roban a los soldados de la Unión un cargamento de oro. Después se enteran de que la guerra ha terminado y deciden llevar el oro hacia el Sur. Pero son capturados, aunque Matt consigue salvarse cuando va a ser ahorcado y escapa con el botín. (FILMAFFINITY)
El capitán Panamá
Malcolm Bradley
Nueva Orleáns, 1865. Terminada la guerra de Secesión (1861-1865), el capitán Trascott se dispone a comprar un barco que sustituya al que le hundieron cuando intentaba burlar el bloqueo. Pero, antes entra en un bar y conoce a Roxy, una linda joven que consigue robarle el dinero. En su huida se hace pasar por una viuda de guerra con tanta fortuna que un abogado le comunica que ha localizado a la familia de su difunto y acaudalado esposo. Mientras tanto, Trascott sigue persiguiéndola. (FILMAFFINITY)
Okinawa
Lt. Phillips
On the eve of their return to the states, the crew of the U.S.S. Blake is unpleasantly surprised when their new captain, Lt. Commander Hale, announces that they've been reassigned to the upcoming invasion of Okinawa. With the news turning the crew against him, Hale must rise to the occasion to keep his men inline.
Week-End with Father
David "Shorty" Bowen
Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.
Week-End with Father
Don Adams
Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.
Why Men Leave Home
Dr. John Waldron
A housewife, suspecting her husband of having an affair with a younger woman, enlists the help of a make-up artist to become more attractive to him.
Insurance Investigator
Tom Davison
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
Flame Of Stamboul
Larry Wilson
An American agent working undercover as a cafe pianist in Cairo sets out to capture a notorious spy and jewel thief known as "The Voice". Director Ray Nazarro's 1951 drama stars Richard Denning, Lisa Ferraday, Norman Lloyd, George Zucco, Nestor Paiva, Donald Randolph and Dick Elliott.
Double Deal
Buzz Doyle
An oil engineer surrounded by foul play helps an heiress bring in a well.
Harbor of Missing Men
Jim 'Brooklyn' Gannon
A smuggler hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman and his daughter.
Mentira latente
Hugh Harkness
Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck), embarazada y abandonada por su novio, emprende un largo viaje de Nueva York a San Francisco. En el tren conocerá a un joven matrimonio que también espera un hijo y que se dirige a la casa de los ricos padres de él. Pero el tren descarrila.
Disaster
Bill Wyatt
A construction worker wanted by the authorities is vindicated by virtue of his heroism when an airplane crashes into a skyscraper.
Unknown Island
John Fairbanks
Adventure-seeker Ted Osborne has convinced his finacee Carole to finance his expedition to an uncharted South Pacific island supposedly populated with dinosaurs...
Lady at Midnight
Peter Wiggins
A couple's adopted daughter has an inheritance someone else wants.
Caged Fury
Blaney Lewis
Big cats are killing people... after being trained by a twisted lion tamer.
Seven Were Saved
Capt Allen Danton
A nurse is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW II, to the United States in a plane piloted by Richard Denning. The passengers include a Japanese colonel on his way to Manila to face war-crime charges, and a couple who were married on the day they were liberated from a Japanese prison camp. During the flight, the colonel breaks away from his guards, causes the plane to go out of control, and it crashes into the sea. The survivors get into a rubber boat and go through a minor-league version of "Lifeboat, with no Alfred Hitchcock sightings, until Air-Sea Rescue pilot Jim Willis rides to the rescue.
The Fabulous Suzanne
Rex
Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for investing her money. Her stock broker tries to dissuade her, but she persists and her investments increases her wealth.
Black Beauty
Bill Dixon
Based on Anna Sewell's novel. In rural England of the 1880's, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her to be present when their mare, "Duchess," gives birth. Anne sneaks out to the stable, however, and is discovered by her father who forbids her ever to ride Duchess again. Despite this punishment, he gives Anne Duchess's colt because it is her birthday, and she names him "Black Beauty."
Quiet Please, Murder
Hal McByrne
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
Ice Capades Revue
Jeff Stewart
Promoter Ann Porter decides to start her own Ice Show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart, a rich, suave young Broadwayite, falls in love with Ann and aids her in her fight against Baldwin.
La llave de cristal
Taylor Henry
Durante la campaña para la reelección, el político corrupto Paul Madvig decide limpiar su pasado, rechazando el apoyo del gángster Nick Varna y asociándose con el respetable político reformista Ralph Henry. Cuando el hijo de Ralph, Taylor Henry, un jugador y el amante de la hermana de Pablo Opal, es asesinado, el brazo derecho de Paul, Ed Beaumont, encuentra su cuerpo en la calle. Nick utiliza la situación financiera de The Observer para forzar al editor Clyde Matthews a utilizar el periódico para sembrar la sospecha de que Paul Madvig podría haber matado a Taylor
Horizontes salvajes
Jackra the Magnificent
Una mujer que ha permanecido en una isla desierta desde que sus padres fueran asesinados por una manada de furiosos elefantes, es rescatada y llevada de nuevo a San Francisco, donde tiene que reclamar su herencia.
West Point Widow
Lt. Rhody Graves
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
Los cuatro hijos de Adán
Jack Stoddard
Adam y su esposa contratan a Emilie como institutriz de sus cuatro hijos. Poco después muere la esposa de Adam, y Emilie, fiel a la promesa que le hizo en sus últimos momentos, continúa con la familia. Pero una crisis financiera arruina a Adam.
Love Thy Neighbor
Joe
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
Policía montada del Canadá
Constable Thornton
En 1885, tres aventureros de la frontera (el maestro Riel, el traficante de whisky Corbeau y el trampero Duroc) fomentan en Canadá una rebelión contra la Corona. Sólo la Policía Montada permanece leal. El policía Ronnie Logan está enamorado de la hija de Corbeau, pero tiene que rivalizar con un ránger de Texas que busca a Corbeau por asesinato
Golden Gloves
Bill Crane
An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
Queen of the Mob
Charlie Webster
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
The Farmer's Daughter
Dennis Crane
Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town. The crew set up on a family farm, and all is well until the leading man falls for the farmer's daughter, Patience Bingham. When flighty starlet Sheldon finds out he has a new girlfriend, she takes off, leaving North and Trimble to find a new leading lady.
Parole Fixer
Bruce Eaton
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
Emergency Squad
Dan Barton
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
Geronimo
Lt. Larned
El esfuerzo del ejército para capturar al jefe de Apache, Gerónimo, que lidera una banda de guerreros en un alboroto de asaltos y asesinatos, se ve obstaculizado por una disputa entre dos oficiales, que son padre e hijo.
Television Spy
Dick Randolph
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
Million Dollar Legs
Hunk Jordan
En la universidad de Middleton, controlada por un rico donante, el presidente de los estudiantes ha de destacar en algún deporte para conquistar el corazón de su amada. El problema es que todos son de pago.
Grand Jury Secrets
Murph
A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.
Undercover Doctor
Frank Oliver
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities.
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Fred
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
Some Like It Hot
Mr. Weems
Nicky es un buscavidas de poca monta, con un grupo en la calle que toca jazz, hasta que el propietario del lugar les echa por no pagar el alquiler. Después, Nicky conoce a una cantante prometedora, quien le convence de hablar con el director de una emisora de radio para promocionarla.
Hotel Imperial
(uncredited)
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
Unión Pacífico
Reporter (uncredited)
En 1862, durante la Guerra de Secesión, dos empresas rivales comienzan a construir la primera línea de ferrocarril transcontinental que enlace el Atlántico con el Pacífico. Al tiempo narra los amores entre la hija de uno de los ingenieros, Mollie Monahan (Barbara Stanwyck), el agente del gobierno encargado de la seguridad Jeff Butler (Joel McCrea) y el principal saboteador Dick Allen (Robert Preston).
Sudden Money
Johnny Jordan
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
King of Chinatown
Interne
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
Persons in Hiding
Powder, Henchman
During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
Ambush
Police Garage Mechanic
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
Say It in French
Elevator Passenger
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
Illegal Traffic
Silk Patterson
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.
King of Alcatraz
Harry Vay
A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.
Campus Confessions
Buck Hogan
This comical campus romance showcases the fancy footwork of All-American basketball player Hank Luisetti while it tells the story of a dean's son who does his very best to become a good student. When he fails, he turns to playing basketball and befriends Luisetti, which makes him quite popular. This doesn't sit well with the dean, who wants academics to be more important than sports.
Pasión salvaje
Pilot
Un aviador y su mecánico tienen un accidente y caen en una isla del Pacífico Sur donde entran en contacto con una bella indígena llamada Tura que aprende, entre otras cosas, a besar como lo hacen los occidentales. Allí también está un pérfido doctor que hipnotiza a Tura para someterse a un sacrificio humano.
The Buccaneer
Captain Reid
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
Una nación en marcha
Minor Role
Historia sobre el desarrollo de las comunicaciones terrestres en los EE.UU. durante su rápida expansión en el siglo XIX. La película se centra en la vida de Ramsey McCay, empleado de la recién creada asociación entre Henry Wells y William Fargo, y de cómo gracias a su especial dedicación, la Wells-Fargo llega a convertirse en una gran empresa de correos y transporte de mercancías hacia el Oeste, presente en los mayores acontecimientos de la época.
Hold 'Em Navy
Midshipman Jepson
Dos jugadores de fútbol americano que estudian en la academia naval compiten por los favores de la misma chica.