Larry J. Blake
Nacimiento : 1914-04-24, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 1982-05-25
Historia
Larry J. Blake was born in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, New York on April 24, 1914. At the age of 18, his talent at impersonations and dialects grew into a vaudeville act. Blake eventually became a headliner, playing the Orpheum circuit, as well as the Roxy Theatre and the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center.
In 1936, he signed to a contract with Universal studios, and his first job was in the serial Secret Agent X-9 (1937). Right after that, he was chosen for a featured role in James Whale's The Road Back (1937), a sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). He appeared in other films for Universal including a string of 1938 films, Trouble at Midnight (1937), Air Devils (1938), Nurse from Brooklyn (1938), and The Jury's Secret (1938).
With the outbreak of WWII, Blake joined the U.S. Navy serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific. He was mustered out and treated at a Naval hospital for his alcoholism. A Catholic priest helped Blake join Alcoholics Anonymous, and in 1946 he help start the first A.A. group for members of the motion picture industry.
Blake returned to acting in 1946, working steadily in supporting and bit parts throughout the 1950s. He is best known for his roles in Sunset Blvd. (1950) and High Noon (1952). In Sunset Boulevard he played the first finance man who comes to repossess William Holden's car. In High Noon, Blake played Gillis, the owner of the saloon who is punched by Gary Cooper.
As television's popularity began, Blake found plenty of work from westerns, crime dramas to comedies. He was a regular in The Pride of the Family (1953) television series, as well as the recurring part of the friendly jailer in Yancy Derringer (1958).
His last role was as the museum security guard in Time After Time (1979), when he was forced to retire due to emphysema. Until his death in 1982, Blake continued helping others in the A.A. program. (IMDB)
Guard
Londres, 1893. Tras cinco años de inactividad, Jack el Destripador vuelve a las andadas. Huyendo de la policía, el asesino entra al laboratorio del joven H.G. Wells y huye en su reciente invento: una máquina del tiempo. Después de recuperar su ingenio, Wells descubre que el Destripador escapó al futuro: ahora deberá ir tras él.
Cameron
Susan Harris está sola en casa cuando, de repente, la puerta se cierra con llave, las ventanas se cierran de golpe y el teléfono deja de funcionar. Susan ha sido atrapada por un intruso… pero no se trata de un matón ordinario. No, el intruso es un ordenador llamado Proteus, un cerebro artificial que ha aprendido a razonar. Y a aterrorizar.
Jailer
A valuable medallion believed to prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times is sought.
Pete
Comedia familiar de ambiente estudiantil en el que los protagonistas describen una fórmula similar al elixir mágico de Astérix. En ese momento los protagonistas se dedicarán a deshacer entuertos.
Police Officer
Un promotor inmobiliario ha comprado varios bloques en el el centro de la ciudad para construir una alameda gigantesca. El único obstáculo lo representa una anciana viuda que no está dispuesta a vender su vivienda. El promotor recurre entonces a toda clase de argucias para conseguirlo. Pero la viuda cuenta con la ayuda de Herbie, el Volkswagen fantástico.
Police Commissioner
Cuando el detective Lou Torrey es trasladado a Los Angeles, descubre que un mafioso siciliano contrata a veteranos del Vietnam para asesinar a todos sus enemigos.
Poker Player with Glasses
Narra la peligrosa vida de dos jóvenes americanas que, víctimas de la brutal educación a la que las han sometido su padrastro, se ven abocadas al asesinato para escapar del terror que azota su existencia. La violencia y la corrupción se convierten en su única forma de vida. Su trágica existencia culmina en una desesperada huida hacia la libertad cuando son perseguidas por la policia tras hacerse con un botín de 300.000 dólares. A su paso por los EEUU aumentan su número de crímenes, dejando tras de sí un reguero de sangre y destrucción, apartando despiadádamente a todo aquel que se interpone en su camino.
Water Balloon Game Barker-Operator (uncredited)
Tras pasar unas merecidas vacaciones en Francia, el agente secreto James Bond recibe una llamada del Jefe M para realizar una peligrosa misión relacionada con unos diamantes en bruto desaparecidos.
Prisoner in Compound
Oklahoma, 1889. Unos hombres acusan injustamente a Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) de haber robado ganado y no dudan en ahorcarlo. En el último instante, lo salva un comisario que trabaja a las órdenes del juez Fentom. Aclarados los hechos y demostrada su inocencia, el juez aconseja a Cooper que olvide lo ocurrido y le ofrece un puesto como comisario. Su misión será capturar vivos a los que intentaron lincharlo para que sean juzgados por el juez.
First Outspoken Man (uncredited)
Esta es la historia de una gran familia que sueña en convertirse en una gran banda familiar y participar en la congregación política de los demócratas. Pero ante la llegada del prometido de la hija mayor, sus vidas dan un giro y van a vivir a Dakota. Las ideas políticas son el eje central de disputas entre los ciudadanos republicanos y demócratas... ¿Podrá más el amor de Alice y Joe que las opuestas ideas políticas? ¿Qué partido político ganará las elecciones?
Honest Hal (uncredited)
La periodista Kelly Olsson posa como bailarina para impresionar al rijoso director de una revista para hombres, con el fin de conseguir que publique un relato suyo.
Police Officer (uncredited)
Unos torpes criminales secuestran por error a la criada de una pareja de millonarios, después de confundirla con la señora de la casa. Se inicia así la primera de un montón de confusiones.
John Murphy
A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the life of Dutch Schultz.
In this drama, set just after the end of WWII, an American officer falls in love with a German woman. Their blissful affair is disrupted when her German ex-lover returns and tries to exact his jealous revenge upon the Yankee. When the ex-lover shows up dead, the American is blamed.
Hap's Lead Henchman
Desmond plays convict Mike Gilbert, who goes on the lam with fellow prisoners Gruber and Graham when he finds out his wife is divorcing him and feels he has nothing to lose. Gruber intends to get his robbery loot, which his father, Curly, has successfully hidden from the law. After commandeering a plane, they double-cross Graham, who assembles his gang to get revenge - and Gruber's loot. Meanwhile, Gilbert falls in love with Robbie, his ex-wife’s sister. Through Robbie’s influence, Gilbert decides to go straight, but his cohorts aren’t quite so willing to reform.
Auctioneer
Amantha Starr es una bella y rica joven que vive en la lujosa plantación sureña de su padre. Pero, cuando éste muere, es acusada de ser hija de una sirvienta negra, por lo que es despojada de sus tierras y convertida en esclava. Trasladada a Nueva Orleáns para ser vendida, un apuesto caballero la compra en una subasta de esclavos.
Roadblock Sergeant
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
Detective
Ellen (June Allyson) es una rica heredera que, tratando de escapar de su padre (Charles Bickford), un hombre autoritario que no aprueba su matrimonio, atravesará el país para reunirse con el hombre que ama. Durante el viaje conocerá a un periodista (Jack Lemmon) que se presta a ayudarla, a cambio de la exclusiva de su interesante historia.
Ray Perkins
Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a result, things don't go as smoothly as planned.
Motorcycle cop
El Dr. Russell Marvin dirige la operación Skyhook, que consiste en enviar cohetes a la atmósfera superior para probar futuros vuelos espaciales. Sin embargo, misteriosamente todos ellos desaparecen...
Hank Durgis
En el pequeño pueblo de Mountaincrest, un hombre afectado de amnesia mata a otro en la calle. La policía intenta atraparlo. El problema es que no están seguros de si persiguen a un hombre o a un animal salvaje.
Tim
Los periodistas del Sentinel están a punto terminar la edición del periódico. En los pasillos y en las mesas se conspira y se intriga para hacerse con la dirección del diario. Mientras tanto, un criminal que se dedica a matar mujeres jóvenes, tras cada asesinato, deja a la policía un mensaje escrito con pintalabios. En el periódico se establece una feroz competición: el primero que consiga la noticia de la captura del asesino "del pintalabios", tendrá todas las de ganar. Un redactor sin ambiciones consigue convencer a una secretaria de la que está enamorado para que sirva de cebo a fin de atraer al asesino, contando, por supuesto, con vigilancia policial.
Max Harkness (as Larry Blake)
Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vicker, so he can put his old rackets back into the auto factories. Vickers fights him off, ultimately winning help from Linden's attractive daughter Barbara and from Joni Calvin, Vickers' moll.
Healy (uncredited)
Remake del film "High Sierra" de Raoul Walsh. Un hombre que acaba de salir de la cárcel planea un gran golpe que le permitiría retirarse para siempre del mundo de la delincuencia. Sin embargo, no había contado con ciertas circunstancias que dificultarán su proyecto.
Connors
A delinquent girl involves an innocent friend in an armed robbery followed by a jail-break and hostage-taking with her equally delinquent boyfriend.
Deputy sheriff
Cuando el recién ordenado ministro William Macklin se muda a la ciudad del oeste donde fue asesinado su padre años antes, trata de reconstruir la vieja iglesia, pero el propietario del salón Marty Callahan y una banda de forajidos intentan socavar sus esfuerzos.
Reporter #2
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.
Wayne - Waiter (uncredited)
The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff's department, Dial Red "O" (the correct title with the number 0 (zero), as on a telephone dial, shown in ") opens with war-torn veteran Ralph Wyatt getting word that his wife is divorcing him, and he flees the psychiatric ward of the veteran's hospital, wanting to talk to her. His escape touches off an all-out manhunt, led by Lieutenant Andy Flynn of the sheriff's department.
Capt. Biff McGann (uncredited)
Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.
Dave Singer
A New Yorker inherits an old river boat and decides to turn it into a night club while falling in love with Sally Jane, the granddaughter of his worse enemy.
Minetti
Una vocalista y el administrador de su apartamento se ven mezclados en un sórdido asesinato, lo cual es pone en peligro constante.
Mr. Devlin (uncredited)
Jo, una joven dama divorciada de la buena sociedad, decide alistarse en el ejército para estar más cerca de su novio, un coronel. No cuenta con que su ex marido ha sido fichado como consultor de defensa, y que va a hacer todo lo que esté en su mano para sabotear el romance de Jo
Police Captain
A gangster and his wife attempt to go straight. Comedy. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
Gillis - Saloon Owner (uncredited)
Will Kane (Gary Cooper), el sheriff del pequeño pueblo de Hadleyville, acaba de contraer matrimonio con Amy (Grace Kelly). Los recién casados proyectan trasladarse a la ciudad y abrir un pequeño negocio; pero, de repente, empieza a correr por el pueblo la noticia de que Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald), un criminal que Kane había atrapado y llevado ante la justicia, ha salido de la cárcel y llegará al pueblo en el tren del mediodía para vengarse de Kane. El tiempo va pasando lentamente, pero nadie en el pueblo está dispuesto a ayudar al sheriff.
Police Radio Voice (uncredited) (voice)
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
Walt Williams
A once-famous concert pianist has had her career ruined by her alcoholism. Her husband and a member of Alcoholics Anonymous try to help her recover.
1st Finance Man
Joe Gillis es un joven escritor de segunda fila que, acosado por sus acreedores, se refugia casualmente en la mansión de Norma Desmond, antigua estrella del cine mudo, que vive fuera de la realidad, acompañada únicamente de su fiel criado Max. A partir de ese momento, la actriz pretende que Joe corrija un guión que ella ha escrito y que va a significar su regreso al cine.
Pete Weiss
A teacher (Dorothy Patrick) weekends at her fiance's (Robert Rockwell) cabin, where a fugitive hides his loot.
Capt. Ed Roberts
A duped bride joins a bookie in love and crime.
Plainclothesman
Justo antes de Navidad, Steve Mason, el dependiente de una tienda, descubre que una de las clientas -una hermosa viuda madre de un niño- es una "espía". Después de desenmascararla, la deja marcharse, lo que le cuesta el puesto de trabajo. Ambos tienen una cita, que no sienta muy bien a Carl, un pretendiente de la mujer. Quien está realmente contento es el niño, porque no quiere a Carl como padrastro.
Louie Perez (as Larry Blake)
Un abogado asusta a unos gangsters al fingir la muerte de una cantante en la silla eléctrica.
Martin (uncredited)
Intensa historia que mezcla con gran pericia los sentimientos más apasionados con las maquinaciones políticas. Las soberbias interpretaciones y el perfecto trabajo de dirección enganchan al espectador a la calle del éxito, Flamingo Road.
Schultyz (as Larry Blake)
Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for Mimi. But they are ordered by their skipper Muldoon (Ralph Sanford) to remain on board and guard against theft of foodstuffs by a black market gang.
Hollis Smith (as Larry Blake)
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
Police Photographic Technician (uncredited)
Basado en una historia real. En 1932, Frank Wiecek fue condenado a 99 años de prisión por un crimen que no cometió. Doce años después, su madre, que limpiando pisos ha ahorrado 5.000 dólares, centavo a centavo, publica un anuncio ofreciendo ese dinero como recompensa para quien le dé la información que permita descubrir al verdadero criminal. Un escéptico periodista inicia una investigación.
Det. Sgt. Sharpe
Jewel thieves battle investigators.
Detective Lieutenant Jerry McMullen
In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.
Charles
Biografía de Dolly Payne (Ginger Rogers), la esposa de James Madison, el cuarto Presidente de los Estados Unidos. A Dolly la cortejan dos líderes políticos: Madison (Burgess Meredith) y Aaron Burr (David Niven). Ella coquetea con los dos, llegando incluso a enfrentarlos, no sólo por motivos sentimentales, sino porque desea contribuir a la construcción del país. Tras ejercer su influencia sobre Burr, ayudará a Thomas Jefferson a llegar a la presidencia de Estados Unidos (1801-1809). Cuando Madison (1809-1817) gana las elecciones presidenciales se convierte en la Primera Dama.
Rick Daniels
When a troupe of showgirls with their impresario and press agent vacation at a Malibu Beach resort, two of them are garroted. Charlie takes on the case assisted by Number Two Son Jimmy and faithful chauffeur Birmingham Brown.
Karl
Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patti fly to his privately-owned remote island and have to crash land. Also on the island is a group of shipwrecked people, including a German professor, his daughter, an English journalist, a wealthy widow, a sailor and a Nazi Agent.
Simon Gillette
Two women private detectives arrive at a dude ranch in time to investigate the murder of their client's philandering husband.
Policeman (Uncredited)
Maisie está agobiada y su jefe le ordena tomar dos semanas de vacaciones. Al ir a subir al autobús con destino a Reno, donde cantará en una banda, conoce a una chica y un soldado, que le da una carta para su mujer, quien ha ido a Reno para pedir el divorcio. Pero la mujer no es la verdadera, y Maisie se pone a investigar.
Announcer
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
Truck Driver
A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.
Ben Dawson
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
Interviewer
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.
Silent Sam (as Larry Blake)
A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
John P. 'Horseshoe' Donovan
Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.
Larry Craine
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do it, and sets out to find the real killer and clear his own name.
Trigger Magee
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
Bill Sheldon
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Tony Michaels (as Larry Blake)
Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharged from WWI, Cameron goes into the dairy-farming business, only to be hounded by his chief creditor, flint-hearted banker Everett Benson (Charles Halton). Despite his uncharitable feelings for Benson, Cameron falls in love with Catherine (Catherine Hughes), the banker's daughter.
Weil (as Larry Blake)
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
Chief FBI Agent Wheeler (as Larry Blake)
A secret agent goes after the gang that stole the crown jewels of a European monarchy.
