Wade Crosby

Wade Crosby

Nacimiento : 1905-08-22, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA

Muerte : 1975-10-02

Perfil

Wade Crosby

Películas

Fugitive Lovers
Politician on Yacht
Un limpiador de piscinas encuentra a una mujer casi muerta en la piscina de su casa. Se enamora de ella y la toma bajo su protección. Los dos se escapan en moto, perseguidos por los esbirros del marido...
The Manhandlers
Buckner
A gorgeous girl named Katie inherits her deceased uncle's business and decides that she too can be a businesswoman and hire two hot girlfriends. Katie doesn't like the brothel part so she gets rid of that and is soon giving legit massages. The mob doesn't like this and Katie is quickly being muscled by mob goons to turn up the heat or pay. Katie soon discovers more about the massage-parlor than she had wished.
Aeropuerto 75
Andy Birdson (uncredited)
Cuando un Jumbo 747 colisiona contra una avioneta pilotada por un hombre de negocios que acaba de sufrir un infarto, el pánico se apodera de los pasajeros. Muertos los pilotos a causa del choque, la azafata Nancy Pryor, recibe instrucciones por radio para poder hacerse cargo de la situación.
Almas de metal
Bartender
En un futuro próximo existe un gigantesco parque de vacaciones dividido en tres zonas: la Roma Imperial, el Oeste americano y la Europa Medieval. Cada una de ellas reproduce con total fidelidad las características de cada época. Existe, además, la posibilidad de que quien pueda permitírse el lujo viva sus propias aventuras en la época elegida. Al parque han ido de vacaciones un par de amigos, Peter Martin (Richard Benjamin) y John Blane (James Brolin). Todo está perfectamente controlado hasta que los robots que hacen de figurantes empiezan a fallar, en concreto un implacable pistolero (Yul Brynner) diseñado para perseguir sin descanso a sus víctimas.
J.W. Coop
Billy Sol Gibbs
Después de perder ocho años en prisión, el vaquero J. W. Coop es liberado para volver a la vida como un vaquero de rodeo profesional en los años 60. Decidido a compensar los años 'primordiales' perdidos de su carrera, avanza tenazmente y aprende que no solo ha cambiado el negocio del rodeo durante su encarcelamiento, sino que también la sociedad en su conjunto ha realizado cambios dramáticos.
Secret of Outlaw Flats
Mr. Canfield, Mine Owner
Two episodes from the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series edited together and released as a feature.
Prisoners of the Casbah
Yagoub
A low-born thief loves a Moroccan Princess. She must marry to escape death at the hands of her enemies. The groom is able to wed or cast away his bride simply by saying "I Marry You" or "I Divorce You" three times.
El autoestopista
Joe
Roy Collins y Gilbert Bowen, ambos de mediana edad, dejan atrás la gran ciudad para dirigirse por carretera hacia México. A varios kilómetros de la frontera que separa México de los Estados Unidos, el conductor Roy acepta la proposición de su compañero Gilbert para que lleven en el asiento de detrás del automóvil a un autoestopista llamado Emmett Myers. De la cordialidad inicial se pasa a un estado de tensión creciente cuando Roy y Gilbert, después de ser protagonistas de un macabro juego que a punto ha podido suponer la muerte del primero, se dan cuenta que se encuentran ante un auténtico sádico, un psicópata que está sembrando el pánico entre los conductores de este tramo de carretera fronterizo.
Old Overland Trail
Draftsman
Anchor is building a railroad and to get cheap labor he gets Black Hawk's Indians to attack and burn the incoming wagon train. This forces the settlers to work for Anchor and he pays them in devalued scrip. When Rex figures out Anchor's swindle, Anchor gets Black Hawk to capture him. When Anchor turns on Black Hawk and shoots him, Black Hawk gets a chance to repay a debt to Rex.
Invasion, U.S.A.
Illinois Congressman Arthur V. Harroway
A group of American witness the deadly invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union.
La rosa de Cimarrón
Hostler
Una joven blanca que ha sido criada por los indios Cherokees, quiere vengarse de los enemigos blancos que mataron a sus parientes indios. Para ello, necesitará la ayuda de un hombre blanco, el marshal Hollister. (FILMAFFINITY)
Tales of Robin Hood
"Little John" Little
The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the few filmed episodes of an unsold TV series.
Te veré en mis sueños
The Bartender (uncredited)
Historia del escritor de canciones Gus Kahn (Danny Thomas), centrada en la relación del compositor y su mujer Grace (Doris Day).
Hit Parade of 1951
Jake
While raising cash to pay a debt, a Vegas gambler tricks a night club crooner there who looks like him to play him for a bit.The gambler's Latina girlfriend opens the eyes of the prissy crooner.
El reinado del terror
Danton (uncredited)
Revolución francesa, 1794. El marqués de Lafayette pide a Charles D'Aubigny que se infiltre en el Partido Jacobino para derrocar a Maximilian Robespierre, quien, tras obtener el poder supremo y establecer un reino de terror regido por la muerte, pretende ahora convertirse en dictador de Francia.
Rose of the Yukon
Alaskan
Major Geoffrey Barnett, U. S. Army Intelligence Service, is sent to Alaska, to apprehend a deserter, Tom Clark, who was presumed to be dead as a member of a small force wiped out on Attu in World War II. With the aid of Rose Flambeau, he finds evidence that the now-prosperous Clark killed his own comrades to prevent their reporting of a deposit of uranium, which he is now mining with the intention of selling to a foreign power.
Rostro pálido
Jeb
Bob Hope es un nervioso dentista que se convierte en pistolero cuando se casa con Calamity Jane (Jane Russell), una mujer aficionada a crear problemas y que en realidad trabaja para el gobierno. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Timber Trail
Henchman Walt
Monte Hale is a stagecoach driver for Jed Baker's stage-line. Jed believes his brother, Ralph, is behind the many hold-ups of his stagecoaches but has no proof. Ralph, in turn, blames Jed for the attacks on the linemen of his pioneer telegraph company. Big Bart, a ruthless gunman and outlaw-gang leader working for crooked banker Jordan Weatherbee, is actually behind the troubles of both companies. Bart plans to frame Jed for a double-murder and then kill him. Monte saves his life and, together, they devise a plan of their own to bring an end to the reign of lawlessness along the timber trail.
Un rancho en California
Henchman Lige McFarland
Roy, un vaquero, descubre que su caballo, Trigger, ha sido robado por una banda de forajidos. Inmediatamente se pone en marcha para recuperarlo.
Angels' Alley
Henchman-Mechanic Mike
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
Abbott y Costello: Viuda sabia
Squint
Chester Wooley y Duke Egan son unos vendedores ambulantes que realizan una escala en Wagon Gap, Montana, mientras se dirigen a California. Durante la escala, un criminal famoso, Fred Hawkins, es asesinado, y los dos son acusados ​​del crimen. Rápidamente son juzgados, condenados y sentenciados a morir en la horca. El jefe del comité de ciudadanos locales, Jim Simpson, recuerda una ley por la cual el vencedor en un duelo debe asumir la responsabilidad de las deudas y la familia del difunto. La ley impide la ejecución de los dos, pero ahora Chester es responsable de la viuda Hawkins y sus siete hijos...
Along the Oregon Trail
Blacksmith Tom
The period is the 1840's and Greg Thurston is out to establish his own empire out of a large area of the west. He needs rifles to give to the Indians but Monte Hale breaks up his attack on the supply train. But when they get them by robbing the warehouse, Monte suspects Thuston who had the other key. He follows Thurston only to be caught by him just as Thurston launches his final big attack.
Web of Danger
Bixley - Dam Worker
Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly quarreling over small and minor matter, especially when it comes to Peg Mallory, whom both men are romancing and Peg enjoys the attention. Thed work is suspended when a worker is killed, but a flood is approaching and the valley citizens are in dire straits unless the bridge is completed - in a hurry.
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Jigger (uncredited)
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.
Philo Vance Returns
Choo-Choo's Bodyguard (Uncredited)
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
Traffic in Crime
Dumbo
Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work as an undercover operative to rid the town of the gangster element. Sam taunts and tricks the two leading gangsters, a mob girl, 'Silk" Cantrell, and a bribe-taking police official, into setting ambushes and death-traps for him, which backfire on them, and achieve his assignment directive.
Rough Riders of Cheyenne
Pop Jordan
Sunset returns to find the Carson-Sterling feud still going. Sterling has been killed and it's not long before Andrew Carson is murdered. To end the feud Sunset challenges Martin Sterling to a shootout. Unknown to Sunset, Martin's sister Melinda has waylaid her brother and now appears for the shootout disguised in her brother's clothes.
Bandits of the Badlands
Burl Kohler
Sunset Carson is a wandering cavalier who rides into the Badlands. Hallie Wayne is bedeviled by bandits who've been raiding the livestock of her ranch.
Crime, Inc.
Mobster (uncredited)
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.
Una dama en el oeste
Crockett
El Sheriff Bat Masterson limpia con dureza Dodge City. Solo permite el prostíbulo de la bella Dora, de la que está enamorado. Los problemas surgen cuando a la ciudad llega el pistolero King Kennedy quien pide a Dora que convenza al Sheriff para que le ayude en su carrera de periodista
Headin' for God's Country
Jim Talbot
In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. The story turns out to be true when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The town then rises up and slaughters a Japanese raiding party.
The Sundown Kid
Vince Ganley
A Pinkerton agent masquerades as a criminal in order to infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters that is using wealthy widow Lucy Randall as a front. Arriving at the gang's hideout the Dawson ranch, Red discovers that the counterfeiting ring is headed by Mrs. Randall's attorney J. Richard Spencer and Dawson himself.
Gentleman Jim
Manager (uncredited)
Biografía del campeón de boxeo James J. Corbett. Conocido como 'Gentleman Jim', Corbett se convirtió en el primer campeón del mundo de los pesos pesados en 1892, cuando derrotó a John L. Sullivan, tras la entrada en vigor de las llamadas reglas de Queensberry, que exigían la utilización de unos guantes hinchados para proteger los nudillos, un cuadrilátero con unas medidas determinadas y establecían la duración del combate... En Estados Unidos obtuvo excelentes críticas.
En el viejo California
San Francisco Bartender
Tom Craig (John Wayne) llega a Sacramento (California) con el fin de establecer allí una farmacia. Pero la ciudad está dominada por Britt Dawson (Albert Dekker), y muy pronto estallará la guerra entre ambos.
Shepherd of the Ozarks
Kirk
Aluminum magnate James J. Maloney, Sr. meets with government officials to discuss the war effort and the need to end price-fixing. After the meeting, Maloney receives word that his son Jimmy, a playboy turned Army flight instructor, is lost with his navigator, Scully, somewhere in the Ozarks. While Maloney rushes to find his son, Jimmy and Scully crash land in the small town of Weaverville, where the mayor and his wife, Abner and Elviry Weaver, are trying to impress upon the citizens that they are better off in the mountains than in the big city
Murieron con las botas puestas
Ft. Lincoln Bartender (uncredited)
George Custer (Errol Flynn) llega a la Academia de West Point lleno de arrogancia y vanidad. Su carácter indisciplinado le ocasionará numerosos problemas con sus superiores. A pesar de todo, y debido a la acuciante necesidad de oficiales para la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865), es enviado al frente. Terminada la guerra, se casa con Beth (Olivia de Havilland), pero pronto le asignan un nuevo destino: la guerra contra los indios. Al frente del Séptimo de Caballería, el Teniente Coronel Custer se enfrentará a los indios de Caballo Loco. La campaña termina con la famosa batalla de Little Big Horn (Montana, 1876).
Sign of the Wolf
Mort Gunning
Two German shepherds and their mistress (Grace Bradley) crash-land in Canada by a fox breeder's (Michael Whalen) farm.
Tucson, Arizona
Longstreet
Phoebe (Jean Arthur) transforma ella sola un triste almacén en lo que ahora se conoce como Tucson, en Arizona, el orgullo del Oeste americano. Allí construye su rancho, que pronto será el más grande del territorio. Recién llegado de la ciudad, Peter Muncie (William Holden) comienza a trabajar en la propiedad de Phoebe entablándose entre ellos una relación que culmina con planes de boda. Pero el éxito del negocio de Phoebe no tarda en generar envidias y se cruza en su camino Jefferson Carteret (Warren William), un vecino que planea estafar a Phoebe y asesinar a Peter el día de su boda.
Wagon Train
O'Follard
In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight business but also hunt down his murderer. A certain Matt Gardner wants to corner the freight business to Pecos and persuades young Zack Sibley's wagon master to switch sides. Zack also earns the enmity of Gardner's son Coe, who takes umbrage to the youngster's flirtation with pretty Helen Lee. It all comes to a head during a food shortage in Pecos, a near-disaster that persuades the wagon master to switch sides once again. When the dust settles, Zack learns that old man Gardner is actually Carl Anderson, the man who murdered his father.
Zenobia
Townsman
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
Ocho mujeres y un crimen
Writer (uncredited)
Melsa Manton, una jovencita de clase alta, descubre una noche, en una casa deshabitada, un cadáver. Pero cuando llega la policía, el cuerpo ha desaparecido. Al día siguiente, un diario publica la noticia, tomando por una bromista contumaz a Melsa, quien no duda en poner un pleito al autor del artículo, Peter Ames. Deseando demostrar la verdad, Melsa y su grupo de inseparables amigas empiezan a investigar el caso. Un segundo cadáver, éste nada escurridizo, no tarda en aparecer. Los meandros de la investigación son cada vez más espesos. Y entre dudas, sospechas y amenazas, Peter Ames y Melsa Manton empiezan a constatar que del odio al amor hay sólo un minúsculo paso.
The Affairs of Annabel
Scriptwriter (uncredited)
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.
Maria Antonieta
Danton (uncredited)
Siglo XVIII. La princesa de Austria María Antonieta (Shearer) se casa con el delfín de Francia, Luis XVI (Morley), un hombre tan retraído que su relación con la joven es puramente formal. Antonieta se dejará fascinar por las fiestas de París y derrochará el dinero a manos llenas, aunque esta situación no durará mucho. Un drama de época que obtuvo 4 nominaciones a los Oscar: Actriz principal (Norma Shearer), actor secundario (Robert Morley), banda sonora y dirección artística.