Gordon De Main

Gordon De Main

Nacimiento : 1886-09-28, Washington, Iowa, USA

Muerte : 1954-03-05

Perfil

Gordon De Main

Películas

Desert Command
Col. Duval
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. Feature version of the movie serial, The Three Musketeers (1934).
Me casé con una bruja
Man with Masterson on Radio (uncredited)
Siglo XVII. Cuando Jennifer, acusada de brujería, está a punto de ser quemada en la hoguera, lanza una maldición sobre su acusador: todos sus descendientes serán infelices en sus matrimonios. En 1942, Wallace Wooley, al tiempo que se presenta como candidato a gobernador, está preparando su boda con la presumida de Estelle Masterson. Un rayo golpea el árbol junto al cual fue quemada la bruja y ésta cobra vida. Desde entonces, intentará arruinar la vida de Wallace.
Overland to Deadwood
George Bullock
Cash Quinlan, owner of the Hauling Company, is the leader behind a gang of raiders who have been robbing stagecoaches between Mesquite and Deadwood. He hopes by doing so to drive his competitors out of business so that he can get the railroad franchise for himself.....
A través del Pacífico
Dock Official (uncredited)
Bogart interpreta a un oficial de artillería del ejército nortamericano que, en 1941, tras un juicio militar, cae en desgracia y decide abandonar el país. Consigue un trabajo en América Central, pero cuando está a punto de irse descubre que los japoneses proyectan atacar el Canal de Panamá y las bases americanas en Pearl Harbor.
Thundering Hoofs
Dave Underwood
Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father's stage line.
The Mad Monster
Professor Fitzgerald
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
El cuervo (Contratado para matar)
Superintendent (uncredited)
Un matón llamado Raven (Cuervo en inglés) es contratado para que cometa un asesinato. Sin embargo, pronto se da cuenta de que su vida está en peligro, ya que alguien pretende tenderle una trampa.
West of Tombstone
Wilfred Barnet
In this western, a community revives the legend of Billy the Kid after robbers attack a stage coach. The deputy marshal believes the Kid is dead and even goes to the cemetery to exhume his body. Unfortunately, the grave is empty and as the marshal ponders the mystery, a masked rider shoots at him. The eagle-eyed lawman recognizes the man's horse and realizes that he is a prominent businessman in town.
Riot Squad
Plainclothesman
Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.
Appointment for Love
Jason (uncredited)
André Cassil y Jane Alexander deciden impulsivamente casarse. La luna de miel termina muy rápidamente cuando Jane expresa sus puntos de vista progresistas sobre el matrimonio, que incluyen dormir en habitaciones separadas. André trata de ponerla celosa con el fin de atraerla hacia su habitación.
International Lady
Denby
Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a music critic are both keeping their eye on Carla Nillson, a famous singer, whom they suspect of espionage. They all meet in London, then in Lisbon, and eventually in New York City, where Carla sings on the radio.
Quiero a este hombre
Party Guest
Candy Johnson es un estafador y timador de lengua viperina. Candy Johnson prospera hasta ser el jefe mafioso de Yellow Creek, pero el padre alcohólico de su esposa tratará de poner las cosas en su sitio.
Si no amaneciera
Immigration Guard (uncredited)
Georges Iscovescu (Charles Boyer), un seductor europeo que quiere residir en los Estados Unidos, decide casarse con una romántica e ingenua maestra norteamericana (Olivia de havilland) para conseguir el permiso de residencia.
Al fin solos
Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
Danny y Hank son dos estudiantes de trompeta que han estado siete años estudiando y tocando juntos en la banda de la universidad. Los dos compiten en el trabajo y en el amor para conseguir los favores de su mánager, la bella Ellen Miller.
Murder in Greenwich Village
Captain Bates
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.
Espionage
Kronsky Aide
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
The Best Man Wins
Salvage Boss
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
Behind the Evidence
Captain Graham
Norman Foster plays a millionaire who takes a job as a reporter after he's wiped out in the Stock Market. Foster's managing editor Samuel S. Hinds considers the young upstart to be a pain in the neck. But all is forgiven-at least until next time-when Foster solves a series of puzzling robberies..
The Cactus Kid
Bartender Jake
Perrin and his partner get paid a big sum of money at the end of their cattle drive. Shortly thereafter, the partner is found with a knife in his back and Perrin is blamed for the murder.
The Gay Bride
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
Frontera sin ley
Deputy Miller
John Wayne trata de salvar a una joven y a su abuelo de un asesino y de paso vengar la muerte de sus padres, asesinados por el mismo hombre.
The Hollywood Gad-About
Himself - Spectator (uncredited)
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
Million Dollar Ransom
Gambling House Proprietor (Uncredited)
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
Encadenada
S.S. Official (uncredited)
En este triángulo amoroso, Diane no puede decidir si le gusta Michael, a quien conoció en un viaje en barco, o Richard, el empresario casado que está tratando de olvidar.
Beggars in Ermine
Police Captain
John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.
El tejano afortunado
Banker Williams
Un viejo ranchero recibe la visita de su sobrino, que se viene a vivir con él. Juntos descubren un filón de oro, lo que despierta la envidia de algunos de la comarca.
Mr. Skitch
Roulette Table Staff
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
The Wolf Dog
Murphy
The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and travels to Los Angeles, accompanied by inventor/radio operator Bob Whitlock and Irene Blaine. Their journey is aided by Pal, a wolf dog.
The Devil's Mate
Butler
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.
Rainbow Ranch
Sheriff
An emergency at his Aunt's ranch gets Ed Randall leave from the Navy. He returns to find the water cut off and her note due the next day. When the man he seeks legal advice from is murdered, Ed is accused and he now finds himself in jail with a lynch mob forming outside.
The Fugitive
Nicholson
A half a million dollars has been stolen and stashed away and prison inmate Dutch knows where it is. So Government Agent Joe goes to prison and makes friends with Dutch. When Joe breaks them out, Dutch leads them to the money only to find it gone. But Dutch's old gang is on hand and they haven't found it either.
Strange People
First Detective
All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
Fighting Texans
Julian Nash
Randolph Graves, a high-pressure haberdashery salesman, is fired for arguing with a customer and gets job selling oil stock in a nearby town; there he falls in love with the sheriff's daughter and tangles with crooked stock promoters.
Crashing Broadway
Sheriff
When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town, they run into Jeffries who has just burned down the theater. When Jeffries kills Griswold, Tad has a plan to trap him by using the talents of Shakespearian actor Thorndyke.
The Return of Casey Jones
Ike MacFarland (as G. D. Wood)
Jimmy, a young boy, idolizes famed train engineer Casey Jones and is devastated when his hero is killed in a train wreck. The boy grows up to be a railroad engineer, too, but one day the train he is piloting loses its brakes and wrecks. Jimmy tries to fix it but has to jump off at the last minute. Unfortunately, stories begin to circulate that he turned coward and jumped off the train first, letting it be destroyed rather than try to save it. He sets out to clear his name.
Lilly Turner
Doctor (uncredited)
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Cheating Blondes
Policeman
A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.
Los tres mosqueteros del desierto
Colonel Duval
Tom Wayne rescata a Clancy, Renard y Schmidt en el desierto de Arabia y se unen a él para perseguir a El Shaitan, un tipo malo que nunca se ve mientras trata de aniquilar a la Legión Extranjera.
The Dude Bandit
Dad Mason
After Burton kills Dad Mason and makes it look like a suicide, Ace Cooper arrives to investigate. He poses as a coward during the day but at night he becomes the daring Dude Bandit.
Alimony Madness
Doctor
A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.
The Intruder
Doctor
A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.
Parachute Jumper
Narcotics Squad (uncredited)
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
Lucky Larrigan
Sheriff Jim
Craig Larrigan's father and his partner own a large cattle ranch that is losing stock to rustlers. Craig, an easterner, heads west but in the disguise of a Mexican bandit. He is eventually thrown in jail with his identity still unknown. His cellmate is one of the rustlers and when they break out, the rustler takes him to the gang and Craig now has a chance to capture them all.
The Devil Horse
Rancher (uncredited)
Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
The Forty-Niners
Jed Hawkins (as Gordon Wood)
O'Hara has been hired to lead a wagon train west. Instead he has led it off the trail to where it can be attacked by his Indian friends. But Tennessee Mathews is familiar with O'Hara's tactics and sends for the soldiers.
The Heart Punch
Mr. Benton
During a boxing match a fighter accidentally kills his opponent in the ring. Afterwards he finds himself falling in love with the dead man's sister.
The Cowboy Counsellor
State's Attorney
A con man posing as a lawyer tries to sell copies of a phony law book. Things get serious when he has to defend a young man falsely accused of robbery.
The Western Code
Fred Purdy
When Tim Barrett rides into Carabinas, his reputation as a lawman precedes him. Rescuing Polly Loomis from the unwanted attentions of a saloon ruffian, he learns her mother married ranch foreman Nick Grindel shortly before her death, and left everything to him in her will. Nick has proposed marriage to his stepdaughter, and she fears violence if her hot-blooded brother Dick finds out. When a body is found at the Bow Knot, Tim barely rescues Dick from a necktie party and is deputized to investigate when Dick confesses to a crime he didn't commit.
Honor of the Mounted
Corporal McCarty
Tom Halliday of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is implicated and framed on a murder charge. The real killer has gone back into the United States, so Halliday, with no credentials, has to cross the border in order to find and capture the killer.
Alcohol prohibido
Eye Specialist (uncredited)
Los males del alcohol antes y durante la prohibición se hacen evidentes cuando vemos sus efectos en la familia Chilcote.
Single-Handed Sanders
Judge Parker
Tom Tyler plays a small-town blacksmith, whose reckless younger brother casts his lot with a crooked politician. When brother dear steals $5000 from heroine Margaret Morris, Tyler gallantly confesses to the deed. He eventually clears himself by rallying his fellow frontiersmen to form a united front against the villains (guess he's not so "single-handed" after all).
South of Santa Fe
(as Bud Wood) Granger, rancher
Stone kills Thorton but only gets one half of the map to Thorton's gold mine. Tom arrives and, trying to help Thorton's daughter Beth, sets out after Stone and the half of the map.
Galloping Thru
Cliff Warren
A young buck returns to his hometown after several years' absence, only to see his father shot down in front of him.
Forgotten Women
Walrus
Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.
Cavalier of the West
Doctor
Burgess and Greeley are rustling horses and shooting Indians. When they kill Manual they frame Lieutenant Allister. His older brother John now attempts to defend him at his murder trial.
Two Fisted Justice
Marshal Houston
It's good guy Carson and the Poncho Riders against bad guy Slavin and his gang.
Oklahoma Jim
The Croupier
A gambler sets out to help a pretty young woman save her trading post.
The Montana Kid
Marshal Jack Moore
A cowboy whose friend has been swindled out of his ranch and then murdered must take care of the man's son, then he goes after the killers.
Mother and Son
Joe Connors
A woman loses all her money in the 1929 stock market crash, and in order to support her family, goes back to her previous occupation--owner of a gambling house--which her son is dead set against.
The Nevada Buckaroo
The Governor of Nevada
When the Nevada Kid gets caught in a stage robbery, the gang leader Cherokee gets him released by forging a petition to the Governor. The Kid tries to go straight but the stage he is guarding gets robbed. When the Sheriff jails Cherokee who was not in on the robbery, the Kid gets caught effecting Cherokee's escape and finds himself in jail again.
Ships of Hate
First Mate
A cruel sea captain (Charles Middleton) oversees a rough crew.
The Ridin' Fool
Sheriff John Andrews
The Ridin' Fool presented the bantamweight star as Steve Kendall, a young cowboy saving gambler Boston Harry from being hanged by a group of vigilantes who accuse him of having killed Jim Beckworth. The fugitives hide out at Juanita's hacienda and while their mercenary hostess decides how to best fleece her guests, the posse arrives.
Headin' North
Red - Foreman
Having helped his father escape the law, Jim Curtis heads north with the Marshal chasing him. He and his pal Snicker elude the Marshall by changing clothes with two actors. Now forced to do vaudeville skits, Jim finds the man responsible for his and his father's problem working in the same saloon.
Young Eagles
Major Lewis
Lieut. Robert Banks, an American aviator on leave in Paris, meets Mary Gordon, a young American who lives abroad, but their romance is cut short by his return to the front. In an air battle, Robert brings down and captures the Grey Eagle, Baden, and takes him to American Intelligence in Paris. Mary, ostensibly a spy for the Germans, drugs Robert, who awakens to find that his uniform has been stolen by Baden. Later, in an exciting air conflict, Baden is wounded but shoots down Robert's plane. The German rescues him, however, and takes him to an Allied hospital, assuring him of Mary's love; his faith in her is restored when he learns that she is actually a spy for U. S. Intelligence.
Street of Chance
Gambler (uncredited)
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay Francis), wants to divorce him because of his addiction and lifestyle, but they agree on a reconciliation and second honeymoon together and 'Natural' promises to give up gambling. However, his plans change when his brother, 'Babe' (Regis Toomey), arrives in town looking to score big, and 'Natural' has to devise a plan quickly to put him off gambling forever.
Why Leave Home?
Roy
Fox musical.
The Toll of Mammon
Silent film.