Onslow Stevens

Onslow Stevens

Nacimiento : 1902-03-29, Los Angeles, California, USA

Muerte : 1977-01-05

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Onslow Stevens (March 29, 1902 – January 5, 1977) was an American stage, television and film actor. Stevens became involved in performing in 1926 at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where his entire family worked as performers, directors and teachers. His Broadway debut came in Stage Door (1936). He starred over 80 films, at first as the lead actor, but mostly in character roles later in his career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Onslow Stevens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Películas

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Self (archive footage)
Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker explains how the make-up was done on Chaney's character. Screenwriter Curtis Siodmak took very little from earlier werewolf legends, providing his own story for some of the films. This documentary displays clips from several other movies, including "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "House of Dracula" (1945).
Crimen a las 7
Dr. W.L. Janz, M.D.
Un enfermo mental (Grant Williams), liberado recientemente de prisión, no deja de asistir a las sesiones con su psiquiatra (Onslow Stevens) ni de matar personas para luego llamar a la policía y contarles lo ocurrido.
Los jóvenes caníbales
Joshua Davis
Retrato de los hábitos de los ricos ociosos. Los protagonistas son dos parejas que comparten un oscuro secreto del pasado. Basada en la novela “The Bixby Girls” de Rosamond Marshall e inspirada en la vida del trompetista Chet Baker.
Corazones solitarios
Mr. Lassiter
Con ganas de conseguir una posición periodística, Adam White se va a trabajar como columnista de un periódico que da consejos. Su editor, Shrike, se dedica a intimidar a su esposa alcohólica, Florence, por su pasado adultero. Y en asignar a sus empleados trabajos periodísticos para los cuales tienen poca aptitud o interés. Shrike incita a Adam a encontrarse con una de sus corresponsales, Fay Doyle, una mujer llorosa y auto compasiva ...
Tarawa Beachhead
Gen. Nathan Keller
En Guadalcanal, un sargento de la marina es testigo de como un capitán asesina a uno de sus hombres para ocultar su incompetencia, pero teme que no le crean a causa de su rango de su jefe.
The Party Crashers
Mr. Nickerson
Troubled teenagers, ineffectual parents, and a climactic tragedy.
Kelly and Me
Walter Van Runkle
Failing vaudeville performer, Len, is taken under the wing of the German Shepherd wonder dog, Kelly, and a new act is born. Len hopes all his dreams are coming true when he finds himself in Hollywood ... but Kelly is the one in demand on the big screen.
Los Diez Mandamientos
Lugal
Drama bíblico ambientado en el Antiguo Egipto que narra la historia de Moisés, favorito de la familia del faraón, que decide renunciar a su vida de privilegios para conducir a su pueblo, los hebreos esclavizados en Egipto, hacia la libertad.
Outside the Law
Chief Agent Alec Conrad
A government agent's son wins respect and love when he challenges counterfeiters.
La ley de la horca
Hearn
En 1875, un rudo y vengativo ranchero de Wyoming (James Cagney), que se dedica a la cría de caballos, contrata a un joven que lo ha salvado de morir a manos de unos ladrones de caballos. Pronto surgen desavenecias entre ambos: mientras el ranchero acostumbra a tomarse la justicia por su mano, el joven es partidario de que los cuatreros sean juzgados en los tribunales.
New York Confidential
Johnny Achilles
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
Rumbo al Oeste
Col. Ethan Waters
Una epidemia de malaria se cierne sobre los indios. Un joven doctor del ejército decide ayudarlos, pero es devuelto al campamento por un comandante.
La humanidad en peligro
Brig. Gen. Robert O'Brien
El ejército americano realiza unas pruebas atómicas en un desierto del suroeste de los Estados Unidos. Como resultado de las radiaciones, las hormigas sufren una mutación que las hace crecer hasta alcanzar gigantescas dimensiones. Mientras el gobierno niega la existencia de la amenaza, los insectos mutantes se dirigen hacia las ciudades más cercanas. Un grupo de científicos y militares intentará impedir el desastre.
Fangs of the Wild
Jim Summers
A young boy living at a mountain lodge witnesses a murder, and is then targeted himself by the killer.
Un león en las calles
Guy Polli
Hank Martin, un vendedor ambulante del sur de Estados Unidos, se casa con una dulce y bella maestra. Martin, manipulador y con don de gentes, encabeza una revuelta de los trabajadores del algodón, que supone el inicio de su carrera política. Cegado por la ambición y decidido a convertirse en el próximo gobernador del estado, propiciará una serie de turbios acontecimientos que se le acaban escapando de las manos. Basada en una novela de Adria Locke Langley.
La carga de los jinetes indios
Grover Johnson
Una expedición de rescate, formada por hombres inexpertos, debe liberar a dos mujeres blancas que han sido secuestradas por los indios cheyenne. (FILMAFFINITY)
Historia de San Francisco
Capt. Jim Martin
Jim Martin, el director de un periódico de San Francisco, pide ayuda a Rick, un rico minero, para denunciar a Andrew Cain, un político corrupto.
The Family Secret
Judge Williams
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
All That I Have
Attorney Palmer
Dr. Charles Greyson is a famous and wealthy former surgeon. His nephews have taken him to court to challenge his competency, due to his recent inexplicable gifts of large amounts of cash to the church, and, apparently, to some nefarious scam artists. The film is portrayed as a courtroom drama first painting "Dr. Charlie" as incompetent and easily swindled, then telling his side of events and putting them into context. In the courtroom, and by use of flashback, we hear of Dr. Charlies' move away from impersonal contribution on an institutional level, and preferring to express Christian stewardship directly to people who need it, and by helping spread the word of God by donating to Mission fronts who fight fear, anxiety and destitution around the world. We even find the scam artists having turned a new leaf, and creating new lives for themselves. Message being that all that we are we owe to God, and the profits gained from our God-given abilities require care and thought before sharing.
Hills of Utah
Jayda McQueen
A singing doctor (Gene Autry) on horseback heals a feud between cattlemen and copper miners.
Siroco
Emir Hassan
Damasco, 1925. Harry Smith (Bogart), un despiadado contrabandista de armas, necesita un salvoconducto para salir de Damasco y no tiene más remedio que recurrir a su máximo rival, el coronel francés Feroud (Lee J. Cobb), que lo chantajea exigiéndole a cambio una importante información militar...
Lorna Doone
Counsellor Doone
En 1673, Exmoor está bajo el poder de una familia de nobles terratenientes, los Doone. Pero, tras la muerte de Cromwell, caen en desgracia, sus tierras son expropiadas y se les declara proscritos. Sin embargo, los Doone se sienten lo bastante fuertes como para desafiar al rey. La primera víctima es un campesino, cuyo hijo, John, decidido a vengar la muerte de su padre, consigue entrar al castillo de los Doone. Una vez allí, conoce a Lorna, la nieta de Lord Doone. Años después, tras servir en el ejército, John regresa a Exmoor. El conflicto con los Doone continúa y también Lorna sigue allí.
Cargamento blindado
Cmdr. James McLean
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un barco de pesca encuentra un velero danés dañado por lo que parece el ataque de un submarino alemán. Tiene a bordo sólo un hombre, el Capitán Skalder. Los pescadores remolcan la nave a una bahía solitaria sin saber las malévolas intenciones del superviviente.
Revenue Agent
Sam Bellows
Accountant Augustis King discovers that his wife, Marfhe, is having an affair with his boss Sam Bellows. He telephones Internal Revenue Bureau that he can give evidence of a large tax-evasion racket. Before IRS-agent Steve Daniels arrives, King is murdered by a henchman of Bellows and his partner, Ernie Medford. Daniels discovers that Bellows and Medford are smuggling gold bullion from their mine in Mexico, and sell and bank the money under assumed names. they hide the bullion in a compartment welded to the bottom of a car.
One Too Many
Dr. Foster
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.
State Penitentiary
Richard Evans
A man wrongly accused of a crime must decide between getting involved in a prison break, or remaining in jail until his wife can prove his innocence.
Motor Patrol
Lt. Dearborn
A cop poses as a member of a stolen-car ring to capture the men responsible for the murder of his fiancee's brother.
Mark of the Gorilla
Professor Brandt
Nazis dressed to look like Great Apes are looking for gold, and Jungle Jim must stop them.
Red Hot and Blue
Capt. Allen
A Broadway director rescues a starlet from mobsters who blame her for a shooting.
Bomba, the Jungle Boy
George Harland
George Harland and his daughter Pat are photographers who discover a wild boy in the jungle. When Pat becomes lost, Bomba brings her back, overcoming plagues of locusts, forest fires and fierce wild animals.
Mil ojos tiene la noche
Dr. Walters
La película arranca con el intento de suicidio de una rica heredera. En flash-back vemos cómo alguien que trabaja en un teatro y que posee la asombrosa facultad de adivinar el futuro, se siente cada vez más angustiado porque no puede impedir que se cumplan sus peores premoniciones.
The Gallant Blade
Gen. de la Garance
Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.
Walk a Crooked Mile
Igor Braun
A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?
The Creeper
Dr. Jim Borden
Dr. Morgan (Onslow Stevens) and Dr. Cavigny (Ralph Morgan) star as a brace of scientists who return from the West Indies with a potent, phosphorescent serum that allegedly changes human beings into cats.
El Diablo y yo
Dr. Matt Higgins
El gangster E. Kagle ha sido asesinado por su socio y amigo S. Williams. Kagle acaba en el infierno, donde "Nick" le ofrece la oportunidad de vengarse, a cambio de su ayuda con un problema que tiene. Nick lo dispone todo para que Kagle ocupe el cuerpo del honrado juez Parker. En el transcurso de los acontecimientos, Kagle se ve involucrado con Bárbara Foster, la novia del juez, de la que se enamora, hecho que le hará replantearse todo lo que ha sido su vida.
Tierra generosa
Jack Lestrade
Logan Stewart, el propietario del principal almacén de mercancías de Jacksonville es un próspero hombre de negocios que desea vivir tranquilo. Sin embargo, no puede evitar verse envuelto en problemas: por un lado, un matón lo busca para matarlo; por otro, intenta proteger a un amigo que es banquero y jugador y al que los vecinos quieren linchar. Finalmente, un terrible ataque de los indios lo deja completamente arruinado. (FILMAFFINITY)
Bajo el manto tenebroso
Field
John Martin lidera a un grupo de paracaidistas que deben lanzarse en la Francia ocupada para destruir un túnel de vital importancia para los nazis. La operación no sale como estaba prevista y algunos de los miembros de la operación son capturados por la Gestapo.
La mansión de Drácula
Dr. Franz Edelmann
El Hombre Lobo y Drácula llegan al laboratorio del Dr. Edelman para pedirle una cura que los libere de sus instintos asesinos. Pero mientras el Hombre Lobo es sincero, Drácula unicamente está planeando acercarse a la encantadora enfermera del doctor, a quien quiere seducir para que se convierta en una de sus siniestras novias. El monstruo de Frankenstein y una joven jorobada completan el plantel de criaturas terroríficas.
Hands Across the Border
Brock Danvers
Horse breeders Adams and Brock are vying for the Army contract. When Adams is killed trying to ride his horse Trigger, Roy saves the horse from being shot. He trains him and then plans to ride him in the race to win the contract.
Appointment in Berlin
Rudolph Von Preissing
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
Idaho
Bob Stevens
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
Sunset Serenade
Gregg Jackson
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Songs include "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral," "He's a No Good Son of a Gun," "Sandman Lullaby," "Song of the San Joaquin," and "I'm a Cowboy Rockefeller."
Go West, Young Lady
Tom Hannegan
Glenn Ford interpreta al nuevo sheriff de Headstone. Él y su mujer acaban de llegar al lugar que padece los ataques constantes de una banda de forajidos. El matrimonio pronto es víctima del "comité de bienvenida" que les han preparado, aunque pronto aprenden y optan por reponerse para acabar con ellos para siempre.
El monstruo y la joven
J. Stanley McMasters
Un muchacho va al patíbulo por un crimen que no cometió. Los verdaderos culpables se ocupan de la hermana del difunto y la sumergen en la prostitución. Un científico reclama el cuerpo del difunto para realizar unos experimentos y logra trasplantar su cerebro al cuerpo de un gorila el cual recuerda todo su pasado humano y comienza una venganza contra los villanos.
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
Bob Dunbar
When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the official investigator, but most of the clue gathering is done by amateur sleuths Kirk Pierce and Sally Ambler.
Mystery Sea Raider
Carl Cutler
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Frederick Keller
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
Those High Grey Walls
Dr. Frank Norton
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police.
Huracán
Holden
Philip Chagal, un pianista francés de está de gira en Estados Unidos, queda prendado de Helen, una camarera, que cree que se trata de un espía sindical de la empresa donde trabaja. Una vez resuelto el malentendido, tienen que refugiarse en una iglesia ante la inminente llegada de un huracán, y allí se declaran su amor. El problema es que Philip está casado con una mujer desequilibrada que le impedirá ser feliz. (FILMAFFINIT)
There Goes the Groom
Dr. Joel Becker
After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering, until he learns about her gold-digging family.
El valle de los ícaros
Ellis
Un grupo de aviadores profesionales se dedica al transporte en las remotas tierras de los Andees. Uno de los aviadores, aficionado en exceso a la bebida, trae a la mujer con la que acaba de casarse, la cual se enamora de uno de sus compañeros.
You Can't Buy Luck
Joe Baldwin
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
Murder with Pictures
Nate Girard
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...
Straight from the Shoulder
Mr. Wendi
A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son.
Easy Money
Dan Adams
Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.
F-Man
Mr. Shaw
Johnny Dime has aspiration of becoming a "G-Man" , gums up the work of Rogan, an actual government agent is his pursuit of Public Enemy No. 1. Dimes ambitious goal is to improve his "F" rating to a "G". His sweetheart, Evelyn hopes to not get shot in the process.
Three on the Trail
Pecos Kane
An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be a major outlaw himself.
Yellow Dust
Jack Hanway
After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
The Bridge of Sighs
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Powell
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
Forced Landing
Farraday
In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are trying to locate a hidden cache of loot. Unfortunately, something goes wrong during the trip and the pilots must land the plane in the Arizona desert during a terrible storm. There all of the passengers and crew find cramped accommodations in a lonely farmhouse where murder, mystery and mayhem occur.
Por la dama y el honor
Aramis
El joven y valeroso D’Artagnan llega a París y busca a su padrino, el capitán de Treville, jefe del cuerpo de los mosqueteros del rey Luis XIII (1610-1643), en el que quiere ingresar. Allí conoce a Aramis, Porthos y Athos, tres prodigiosos espadachines, a los que, no obstante, D’Artagnan no duda en retar a un duelo. Pero, para ganarse el respeto de los mosqueteros, el joven tendrá que enfrentarse a los malvados sicarios del cardenal Richelieu, enemigo mortal de la Corona. Defendiendo la causa de la reina Ana de Austria, esposa de Luis XIII, se enamora de Constance, la hermosa dama de compañía de la Reina. Esta fue la primera versión sonora sobre la novela de Dumas. Con un dinámico guión de Dudley Nichols, la trama sigue fielmente la novela original, destacando las peleas a espada y la aparición de Margot Grahame como Milady De Winter.
Grand Exit
John Grayson
A Stumped insurance company is forced to re-hire the most expensive, most big-headed, but best arson investigator to solve a string of major losses.
Born to Gamble
Dan 'Ace' Cartwright / Henry Mathews
A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family.
A Notorious Gentleman
A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
Life Returns
Dr. John Kendrick
A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently deceased dog.
House of Danger
Don Phillips
To protect a young woman's life, a man pretends to be her injured friend so he can investigate a murder and capture the killers.
I Can't Escape
Steve Nichols, alias Steve Cummings
An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.
In Love with Life
Prof. John Applegate
Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum, and soon finds himself dead broke when publishers show no interest in the dry material he brings to them. He meets a young boy, Laury and his mother, Sharon in the park and is quite taken with them. He gets a job-prospect letter, as a private tutor, and applies at once. His employer is Mr. Morley, a surly, sour, mean-tempered old man who informs John he is to act as a tutor for his grandson, who turns out to be Laury. Sharon, Morleys daughter had eloped against her father's wishes and was abandoned by her husband after Laury's birth.
Affairs of a Gentleman
Lyn Durland
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
The Vanishing Shadow
Stanley Stanfield
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices in his crusade . . . ray guns, robots and a 'vanishing belt.'
I'll Tell the World
Prince Michael
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
I Like it That Way
Harry Rogers
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
The Crosby Case
Francis Scott Graham
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
This Side of Heaven
Walter
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
Bombay Mail
John Hawley
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
El abogado
John P. Tedesco
George Simon, un exitoso abogado judío de Manhattan, tiene que enfrentarse de repente a la infidelidad de su mujer y a su propio pasado.
Parece que fue ayer
Barnard
Película inspirada en la novela de Stefan Zweig “Carta de una desconocida”. La protagonista es una mujer que es seducida en dos ocasiones por el mismo hombre, sin que éste la reconozca la segunda vez.
Secret of the Blue Room
Frank Faber
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
Peg o' My Heart
Sir Gerald 'Jerry' Markham
Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.
Nagana
Dr. Roy Stark
A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.
The Golden West
Calvin Brown
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He marries and when his boy is two he and his wife are killed by Indians who take the boy. Twenty years later the boy is now the Indian chief. Betty's daughter is nearby and the two are destined to meet.
Una vez en la vida
Lawrence Vail
La historia de un estudio de Hollywood durante la transición del silente al sonoro.
Okay, America!
Henchman (uncredited)
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Heroes of the West
Tom Crosby
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath.
Radio Patrol
Carl Hughes
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.