Wally Maher

Nacimiento : 1908-08-04, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Muerte : 1951-12-27

Películas

La calle del misterio
Tim Sharkey
En una playa de Massachusetts, es hallado un cadáver que es casi un esqueléeo. Peter Morales (Montalban), un detective de Boston, lo lleva a Harvard, donde el doctor McAdoo (Bruce Bennett) determina que corresponde a una mujer que estaba embarazada y fue asesinada. Las investigaciones de Morales lo conducen a Henry Shanway (Marshall Thompson), un joven recién casado que parece no contar toda la verdad durante el interrogatorio al que se le somete.
The Reformer and the Redhead
Jerry Nolard Boyle
La iracunda Kathleen Maguire contrata los servicios de un abogado joven para ayudar a su padre, guarda del zoo, a recuperar su empleo después de que sea despedido por razones políticas. Mientras ponen al descubierto la corrupción política local y hacen frente a un león que se escapa del zoológico, los dos logran enamorarse.
The Story of Molly X
Chris Renbow
Molly's husband Rick was a gang leader somewhere in the middle west. When he's shot, the tough woman moves to S.F. with a couple of the gang to start anew. Disguised as a noble woman, she and her gang rob security transports. But when one day Rob confesses to her that he killed Rick out of jealousy, she shoots him down immediately. In lack of proof she can't be convicted for the murder, but she goes to jail for the robberies. It's a new and very open female prison, where she learns a profession for the first time in her life.
Johnny Stool Pigeon
Benson
Un oficial de narcóticos convence a un preso, al que él mismo envió a Alcatraz, para que le ayude a infiltrarse en una red de contrabando de heroína. La extraña pareja viaja desde San Francisco a Vancouver y, finalmente, a un rancho en Tucson, que es donde se encuentran los jefes de la mafia...
Lonesome Lenny
Screwy Squirrel (voice) (uncredited)
Screwy Squirrel becomes the playmate of a lonesome, dopey, but strong, dog, Lenny, in a broad parody of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men".
The Screwy Truant
Screwy Squirrel (voice) (uncredited)
The truant officer is after Screwy Squirrel for not going to school, and doesn't find out the reason until he goes through a load of crazy gags while trying to catch him.
Strange Holiday
Truck Driver
An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.
Big Heel-Watha
Screwy Squirrel (voice) (uncredited)
To prove he's a true Indian Brave, Big Heel-Watha decides to catch a squirrel - but wouldn't you know it; Screwy Squirrel is the first one he sees...
Happy-Go-Nutty
Screwy Squirrel (voice) (uncredited)
Screwy Squirrel escapes from the nut house and leads the guard dog on a long and ridiculous chase.
Batty Baseball
First Ballplayer (voice) (uncredited)
A series of visual gags about baseball. One running gag has an angry fan screaming "Kill the ump!" Be careful what you wish for.....
Screwball Squirrel
Screwy Squirrel/Sammy Squirrel (voice)
A crazy squirrel provokes a dog into trying to catch him throughout the picture.
Mystery Sea Raider
Jenkins
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
El joven Edison
Man at Station
Desde que era un niño, Thomas Alba Edison (Mickey Rooney) empezó a realizar sus primeros experimentos químicos en el sótano de su casa. Además, tuvo que ejercer múltiples oficios antes de poder registrar su primera patente. Queda para el recuerdo la escena de la operación de la madre, en que el joven Edison idea un sistema de juego de luces con espejos para iluminar el improvisado quirófano.
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Cliff Parsons - Keller's Pilot & Asst.
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
Honeymoon in Bali
Elevator Man (uncredited)
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
Our Leading Citizen
Convention Clerk
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
Stronger Than Desire
Bartender (uncredited)
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
En este mundo traidor
Nate - Photographer at Ferry Landing (uncredited)
El cliente de un detective es acusado de asesinato. El tipo acabará siendo condenado a la pena capital, y el detective a un año de prisión por ocultarle. Pero cuando le trasladan a la cárcel logra fugarse. Tratará de averiguar la verdad, aunque para ello tenga que actuar como un peligroso facineroso, reteniendo a una poetisa consigo. En realidad está más que claro que no es nada peligroso, pero por suerte para él la policía no demuestra demasiada pericia a la hora de capturarle.
The First Hundred Years
Organ installer (uncredited)
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
Confesión sincera
Assistant Prosecutor Ralston (uncredited)
Enloquecida comedia sobre una mentirosa patológica que se acusa del asesinato de su jefe. Mientras tanto, su recto marido, que es abogado, tiene que defenderla.
Hollywood Hotel
Asst. Director Drew
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
My Dear Miss Aldrich
Mechanic (uncredited)
A la muerte del propietario de un periódico de Nueva York, hereda el negocio su pariente más próximo, Martha Aldrich, una profesora de Nebraska. Aunque desconoce el negocio, decide intentar tomar las riendas.
Angel's Holiday
Reporter
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.
23 1/2 Hours Leave
Sgt. Beans Banning
Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer, General Markley. But he gets into an unhappy tangle with a couple of enemy spies (and a happy tangle with the general's daughter) before the bet is finally decided.
Sólo se vive una vez
Attendant in Second Gas Station (uncredited)
Un delincuente de poca monta (Henry Fonda), condenado ya tres veces, es acusado de un asesinato que no ha cometido. Aunque consigue escapar de la cárcel, la fatalidad le impide seguir el camino recto, a pesar de contar con el apoyo de una mujer que le ama.
Mi adorable enemiga
Humphries
Cuenta la historia de amor entre dos personajes enfrentados por razones políticas. Sucede en la Irlanda de los años 20, cuando el fuego de la revolución se lleva por delante todo cuanto le sale al paso. Sólo el amor puede salvarse de las llamas.
El gran tipo
Gas Station Attendant (Uncredited)
Johnny Cave es nombrado inspector de pesos y medidas después de que el antiguo inspector fuese hospitalizado debido a un presunto intento de asesinato. Pronto descubre que hay muchas irregularidades y que están engañando a los compradores. Las medidas agresivas que toma al respecto le hacen objetivo de la mafia.
Una mujer difamada
Photographer (uncredited)
Cuando Loy, una diva social, calumnia al periodista Tracy, éste decide contraatacar implicando en el asunto a su prometida y al desafortunado Powell, un famosísimo pescador deportivo. El plan de Tracy incluye un matrimonio improvisado, una falsa seducción, la pesca de la trucha, puñetazos, promesas rotas...
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Driver of Car
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
El demonio es un pobre diablo
Taxi Driver
Claude Pierce, un niño inglés muy educado que vive en el sur de Manhattan, intenta ganarse la aceptación ante sus compañeros no tan bien educados, en la escuela.
Women Are Trouble
Butch
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
Furia
Ted Fitzgerald (uncredited)
Durante un viaje, Joe Wilson llega a un lugar desconocido, donde es encarcelado por un delito que no ha cometido. Los vecinos, amotinados, provocan el incendio de la cárcel y dan por muerto al forastero. Sin embargo, Wilson consigue sobrevivir y, entonces, intentará vengarse haciendo que sus potenciales asesinos corran el mismo peligro del que él escapó milagrosamente. "Fury" es el primer film americano del gran director alemán Fritz Lang.
Vivo mi vida
Reporter (Uncredited)
Kay, una aburrida chica de la alta sociedad neoyorquina hace un viaje a Grecia donde conoce a Terry, un arqueólogo. Kay flirtea con Terry y él acaba enamorándose de Kay. La joven se vuelve a Nueva York, seguida de cerca por Terry, que tiene la intención de proponerle matrimonio. Cuando llega a la gran ciudad se da cuenta de que el estilo de vida de Kay no es para él, y decide irse, pero la abuela de la chica le convence para que se quede. A pocos días de la boda, la pareja se pelea...
El acorazado misterioso
Bill Williams (Uncredited)
La Secretaria de la Armada informa al capitán Winslow de que va a recibir un nuevo mecanismo de control que revolucionará la guerra en el mar. Pero el mecanismo no tarda en desaparecer...
Baby Face Harrington
Reporter
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2." Comedy.
The Winning Ticket
Sound Man
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.