Donald Douglas

Donald Douglas

Nacimiento : 1905-08-24, Kinleyside, Scotland, UK

Muerte : 1945-12-31

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Donald Douglas (24 August 1905 – 31 December 1945) was a Scottish actor in films and on radio. Douglas appeared in over 100 films from the late 1920s to the 1940s including The Great Gabbo (1929), Life Begins (1932), Men in White (1934), Madame X (1937), Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941), Now, Voyager (1942), Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942), Tall in the Saddle (1944), Murder, My Sweet (1944), Show Business (1944) and Gilda (1946). Douglas was a one-man cast on The Black Castle. He played all roles in each episode and was the announcer. A review of The Black Castle in the trade publication Billboard complimented Douglas's handling of multiple roles in the drama. Bob Francis wrote: "Except for the fact that he is inclined to ham the wizard, making the role often seem more silly than awesome, Douglas puts on a good 15 minutes. His vocal changes are sharp and clear, and his characterizations come over effectively." He also had the title role in John Steele, Adventurer and played Chief Jake Workley in Scattergood Baines. He was also a member of the cast of Kelly's Courthouse. Douglas died on 31 December 1945 in Los Angeles, California, aged 40, after emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Perfil

Donald Douglas

Películas

Gilda
Thomas Langford
Johnny Farrell, un aventurero que vive de hacer trampas en el juego, recala en Buenos Aires. Allí le saca de un apuro un hombre llamado Ballin Mundson, propietario de un lujoso casino. El recién llegado termina convirtiéndose en el individuo de confianza de su anfitrión. Un día, su superior le presenta a su esposa, Gilda. Él reacciona con perplejidad, ya que ella lo convirtió en el ser amargado y cínico que es ahora.
The Truth About Murder
Paul Marvin
A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of his wife.
Tokyo Rose
Timothy O'Brien (as Don Douglas)
Lotus Long plays the title role, an American-educated Japanese woman broadcasting enemy propaganda to American troops. Captured GI Pete Sherman (Byron Barr) is one of a group of POWS slated to be interviewed on Tokyo Rose's radio program. Instead of advising his comrades to surrender (as ordered), Sherman uses his innate Yankee knowhow to hoist the treacherous oriental deejay on her own petard. Managing to make his escape, Sherman hooks up with the Japanese Underground, convincing anti-militarist Charlie Otani (Keye Luke) to aid in a kidnapping plot aimed at Tokyo Rose.
Club Havana
Johnny Norton (as Don Douglas)
A doctor answers a suicide call in a Latin nightclub.
Tarzán y las amazonas
Andres
Un grupo de arqueólogos piede ayuda a Tarzán para encontrar un antigua ciudad oculta en un valle habitado por amazonas... Una nueva adaptación al cine del famoso personaje de Edgar Rice Burroughs que contó con dos importantes cambios: el personaje de Jane ya no estuvo interpretado por la dulce Maureen O'Sullivan (pareja habitual de Johnny Weissmuller en todas sus versiones anteriores), sino por Brenda Joyce, y la productora, que en todas las películas de tarzán anteriores había sido la MGM, fue en esta ocasión la RKO Radio Pictures.
La zarina
Variatinsky (uncredited)
El joven y apuesto teniente Alexei Chernov (William Eythe), llega a palacio para advertir a la emperatriz Catalina de Rusia (Tallulah Bankhead) de que está siendo traicionada y su vida corre peligro. Pero al ser revelado por el canciller Nikolai Illytch (Charles Coburn) que ya ese caso está resuelto, la zarina se decepciona un poco con el mensajero… aunque queda encantada y supremamente halagada al saber los sacrificios que hizo pensando tan solo en protegerla. Se iniciará así un intenso romance, en magníficos tonos de comedia, entre dos seres muy dispares que miran claramente hacia objetivos distintos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Grissly's Millions
Ellison Hayes
An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.
The Strange Mr. Gregory
John Randall (as Don Douglas)
The title character, played by Edmund Lowe, is a famous magician who fakes his own death -- then reappears as his nonexistent twin brother. It's all part of Gregory's master scheme to pin his "murder" on innocent John Randall (Don Douglas), the husband of Ellen (Jean Rogers), the woman Gregory loves.
Historia de un detective
Police Lt. Randall
Esta intriga policiaca narra las aventuras de Philip Marlowe, un detective privado de Los Ángeles que resuelve todo tipo de misterios. Cuando el exconvicto Moose se pone en contacto con él sobre lo que parece un caso de lo más rutinario, una serie de pistas falsas aparecen en escena acusando al protagonista de unos crímenes que no ha cometido. Sin embargo, todas las pruebas clarifican su intervención en el terrible homicidio… ¿Conseguirá Philip resolver el enrevesado enigma?
Heavenly Days
Dr. George Gallup
Fibber McGee and Molly innocently get mixed up with the federal government.
Él y su enemiga
Harolday
Mientras Rocklin se debate entre el amor de dos mujeres, intentará averiguar por qué se produjo el asesinato del propietario del rancho que lo contrató para trabajar en el Oeste.
Show Business
Charlie Lucas (as Don Douglas)
Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.
The Falcon Out West
Attorney Steven Hayden
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas, his own kidnapping and near death.
Wintertime
Jay Rogers (uncredited)
Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her uncle to invest in the inn and modernize it. After the hotel opens, Nora's uncle faces financial ruin and her romance hit a snag in the form of pretty reporter.
Tras el sol naciente
O'Hara
Tras haber estudiado en los Estados Unidos, un ingeniero japonés vuelve a su país, poco antes de que estalle la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Cuando comienza la guerra, se alista en el ejército y su simpatía por el mundo occidental cambia por completo.
Acción en el Atlántico Norte
Lieutenant-Commander (uncredited)
Mientras transporta mercancías para sus aliados rusos una nave de mercante americana capitaneada por Raymond Massey es torpedeada. El valor de Massey y su primer oficial Humphrey Bogart sirve como una inspiración a los sobrevivientes que llevan su diminuto bote salvavidas a América donde son recibidos como héroes. A la tripulación se le asigna un nuevo Liberty Ship. A pesar de los miedos de ser torpedeados de nuevo, Massey, Bogart, y los otros hombres llevan su carga con éxito a Rusia a pesar de ser atacados por varios aviones alemanes en el proceso.
He's My Guy
Kirk (as Don Douglas)
The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.
El amor llamó dos veces
FBI Agent Harding
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Washington ha visto notablemente incrementada su población y los problemas de alojamiento son cada vez mayores. Una chica se ve obligada a compartir su apartamento con dos hombres, lo cual provoca problemas de convivencia, pero la situación se complicará todavía más cuando surge el amor entre ella y el más joven de sus huéspedes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Seis destinos
'Hen 'Henderson (Robinson sequence) (as Don Douglas)
Película ambientada en Nueva York y dividida en varios episodios independientes, pero enlazados entre sí por un traje de hombre que va pasando de unas manos a otras. Cada personaje vive una aventura especial relacionada con el traje.
Little Tokyo, U.S.A.
Hendricks
Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of speculation about prewar Japanese espionage activities. Los Angeles cop Preston Foster suspects that there's dirty work afoot in the city's Japanese community, but no one will believe him except for intrepid girl reporter Brenda Joyce. When the spies frame Foster on a trumped-up murder charge, Joyce does a little detective work herself. The enemy agents are rounded up just before they can do any real damage. Because of its strident insistence that most (if not all) Japanese-American citizens were secretly loyal to the Rising Sun, Little Tokyo USA is seldom seen these days.
Don't Talk
FBI Agent Jack Sampson
This Crime Does Not Pay series entry dramatizes the idea that during wartime, people should not discuss anything related to their work when in public. A casual remark can be overheard by an enemy agent and used to sabotage the war effort. In this short, the story involves shipments of parts to a defense plant.
On the Sunny Side
Mr. George Andrews (as Don Douglas)
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy when his school-friends do the same. But his isn't so happy when things begin to change when his father fore-goes their evening game of Chinese Checkers to play chess with Hugh, and Hugh shows himself to be a formidable scholar, and impresses Don's girlfriend Betty, and becomes more popular with the boys than Don was...and Don is beginning to think that Hugh is too much of a good thing. Don gets downright depressed and decides to run away. Uh, oh, here comes Hugh.
Melody Lane
J. Roy Thomas
In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortune but find themselves in trouble when a radio sponsor finds himself accused of kidnapping a girl. Songs include: "Septimus Winner," "Peaceful Ends the Day," "Cherokee Charlie," "Let's Go to Calicabu," "Swing-a-Bye My Baby," "Changeable Heart," "If It's a Dream Don't Wake Me," "Since the Farmer in the Dell," "Caliacau," and "Listen to the Mockingbird."
The Night of January 16th
Attorney Polk
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner (Nils Asther), Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle (Robert Preston), who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
Mercy Island
Clay Foster
The beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a fun-filled fishing trip that becomes a nightmare when the charter boat is wrecked on an isolated island. Unfortunately, there are very few provisions and the group must fend for themselves. They are eventually assisted by a hermit, but before that one of the group goes insane, and another is eaten by an alligator.
El Sargento York
Captain Tillman (uncredited)
Alvin C. York es un joven y trabajador campesino que vive en una de las numerosas granjas de los montes de Cumberland, en el estado de Tennessee. Sólo tiene un defecto: la bebida. Alvin está enamorado de una muchacha, cuya familia de clase alta impide el matrimonio. Basada en hechos reales.
Si no amaneciera
Joe (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.
Whistling in the Dark
Deputy Commissioner O'Neill
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.
The Get-Away
James 'Jim' Duff (as Don Douglas)
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
The Great Swindle
Bill Farrow
In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a warehouse. The detective does get some good photographs as evidence, but they are stolen from his apartment. He really isn't a great sleuth and winds up accusing everyone but the real culprit of the crime. As a result, he loses his job and must perform the investigation on his own.
A Shot in the Dark
Roger Armstrong
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
Dead Men Tell
Jed Thomasson
Un mapa del tesoro en cuatro partes, el fantasma de un pirata ahorcado, un loro parlante y un barco lleno de pistas falsas complican la búsqueda de Charlie de un asesino a bordo de un barco atracado.
Sleepers West
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
Murder Among Friends
Joe Ellis
A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy.
Cheers for Miss Bishop
Delbert Thompson
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.
Flight Command
1st Duty Officer
Para cubrir la baja de un piloto muerto en acto de servicio, el ejército envía a Alan Drake de la academia de Pensacola a la base de los fabulosos Hellcats en San Diego. Allí, para ganarse un puesto, tendrá que mostrar su habilidad a bordo de un Grumman F3F -3 biplano, enfrentándose tanto al peligro como a sus propios sentimientos.
Gallant Sons
Hackberry
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
Te quiero otra vez
Herbert
Larry Wilson, un hombre de negocios, se recupera de un episodio de amnesia y descubre que en realidad es un estafador; pero, además, vuelve a enamorarse de su esposa de la que estaba a punto de divorciarse.
Deadwood Dick
Dick Stanley, aka Deadwood Dick
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
A Fugitive from Justice
Lee Leslie
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
Island of Doomed Men
Department of Justice Official
Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.
Edison, el hombre
Jordan
Mediante flashback, un Edison de 82 años narra su vida desde su llegada a Nueva York con 22 años, cuando ya empezó a hacer sus pinitos en el mundo de la invención.
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Mr. Grayson, Patient losing Eye Sight (uncredited)
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
Charlie Chan in Panama
Captain Lewis
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
Calling Philo Vance
Philip Wrede
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Forgotten Victory
Mark Carleton
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of Mark Carleton, a worker for the USDA who travels across the world trying to find wheat that farmers can grow despite various disasters.
Fugitive at Large
Stevens
George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because the daring holdup is successful because the gang leader, Tom Farrow, is an exact-double for Storm.
On Dress Parade
Col. Wm. Duncan
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
Smashing the Money Ring
Gordon (uncredited)
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
Sabotage
Joe Grayson
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
The House of Fear
John Woodford
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
Second Fiddle
Film Director
Un publicista (Power) conoce en Minnesota a una gran profesora de patinaje(Henie) a la que quiere llevar a Hollywood para que adquiera más fama. Finalmente ella decidirá regresar a su pueblo seguida del amor que el siente hacia ella.
Stronger Than Desire
Mack Clark - Flagg's Investigator (uncredited)
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
The Zero Hour
Stewart Brewster
A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Ship's Officer - Fight Referee
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
Within the Law
Inspector Burke
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
Invitación peligrosa
Forbes
Un excéntrico millonario contrata al matrimonio Sloane (Montgomery y Russell) para resolver el misterio del robo de las primeras ediciones de unos antiguos libros.
Wings of the Navy
Officer of the Day
Dos hermanos pilotos de aviación se disputan la misma mujer.
Tierra de audaces
Infantry Captain (uncredited)
En 1867 empieza la construcción del ferrocarril en el estado de Missouri. Los agentes de la compañía constructora presionan con amenazas y engaños a los propietarios de las tierras por donde pasará el tren para que las vendan a precios irrisorios. Sin embargo, estas presiones se estrellan contra la resistencia de una mujer que vive con sus dos hijos, Jesse y Frank James.
The misteriosa Miss X
Clarence Fredericks
Dos actores que interpretan el papel de detectives se verán involucrados en un asesinato en el hotel en el que acaban de registrarse.
Pacific Liner
Ship's Officer (uncredited)
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
Law of the Texan
Chet Hackett
Ore shipments are being stolen and the Rangers send Buck and his men to guard the next shipment. When that is stolen also, Buck is kicked out of the Rangers.
The Spider's Web
Jenkins (the butler)
Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.
Convicted
District Attorney
Cuando Chick Wheeler (Edgar Edwards) es acusado del asesinato de su amante Ruby Rose (Phyllis Clare), su hermana Jerry (Rita Hayworth), convencida de su inocencia, decide investigar el caso por su cuenta. El policía Burns (Charles Quigley) intentará protegerla de los múltiples peligros que implica tan temeraria investigación.
Smashing the Rackets
Harry Spaulding
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
El gong de la victoria
Murray
Un joven boxeador se ve atrapado entre un mafioso y un mal padre cuando empieza a salir con la hija del jefe, aunque ella no sabe cómo su padre se gana la vida.
Fast Company
Lt. James Flanner
Un matrimonio librero aficionado a las historias detectivescas intenta ayudar a un amigo en aclarar un crimen de un rival también librero
Come Across
Special Agent Thomas
A bank robber pulls off a heist and comes out with a good haul. However, he winds up being forced to give most of it to his gangland "friends" to hide him from the police, and who now turn their backs on him when his money runs out.
El juez Harvey y sus hijos
J.J. Harper (uncredited)
El juez Hardy va en viaje de negocios a Washington, donde Andy no tarda en enamorarse de la hija del embajador francés.
Special Inspector
Williams
A Tom Evans se le asigna localizar a una banda de secuestradores asesinos que roban camiones. Al ir de incógnito en la empresa de transporte, pronto se encuentra tras la pista de la banda, pero cuando su tapadera es descubierta, su vida está en peligro...
Headin' East
Eric Ward
A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking their produce shipments.
Cadetes del mar
Lt. North (uncredited)
Tres jóvenes que ingresan por distintos motivos en la Academia Naval comparten su afición por el fútbol americano, lo que ayuda a cimentar su amistad.
Madame X
Mr. Edison
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
The Love Department
Gooper Goopalowski (uncredited)
In this musical short, a love columnist can't find her own love connection.
Sequoia
Forest Ranger (uncredited)
A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
Tomorrow's Children
Dr. Brooks
Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue breeding, and her siblings are disabled, have mental problems or are imprisoned—she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't be passed on to any further. Her boyfriend Jim and a kindly priest search desperately for a way to stop the forced surgery before it's too late.
Hombres de blanco
Mac
Un joven médico (Clark Gable), que vive absolutamente entregado a sus pacientes, tiene una novia que no logra entender que ponga a los enfermos por encima de cualquier clase de diversión. Las desavenencias entre ambos llegan al límite cuando él conoce a una bella enfermera que comparte su pasión por la medicina.
Lazy River
Officer
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
A Woman's Man
Walter Payson - Horseback Rider
Una temperamental estrella de cine abandona el plato para enzarzarse en una pelea con un ambicioso boxeador, ansioso de publicidad.
He Couldn't Take It
Oakley
Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes a criminal conspiracy while trying to stop his long-suffering girlfriend from taking a vacation with her lecherous boss.
Murder In The Pullman
Vincent Lynch
Noted team of detective and criminologist solve the murder of a new bride, in her compartment, on the train on which they are travelling.
The Great Gabbo
Frank
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.