James Ellison
Nacimiento : 1910-05-04, Guthrie Center, Iowa, USA
Muerte : 1993-12-23
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James Ellison (May 4, 1910 - December 23, 1993) was an American actor, born James Ellison Smith in Guthrie Center, Iowa, son of Edward James Smith and Ona Mary Ellis.
Ellison appeared in nearly seventy films between 1932 and 1962.
Ellison worked for a time in a film laboratory and while there was offered a screen test. He developed it himself and when he saw it, decided it was not satisfactory so he would not show it to the director. But he saw it anyway and Ellison got a contract.
Despite his rugged good looks and height of 6 feet 3 inches, Ellison's limited range and somewhat wooden screen presence kept him from the first (or even second) ranks of stardom. He spent much of his career in Westerns, including a stint in the mid-thirties as the sidekick of Hopalong Cassidy in Paramount's successful series. In 1938, he played a charming, romantic character opposite 26 year old Lucille Ball in the comedy, "Next Time I Marry", a film where Ball had her first top billing on screen credits. Before that, in 1936, he played his highest-profile role, as Buffalo Bill in Cecil B. DeMille's The Plainsman, which also starred Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur.
Despite that film's success, Ellison spent most of the remainder of his career shuttling between cowboy pictures and more varied roles, primarily in B movies with titles like Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case and The Undying Monster. He had a supporting role in 1941's Charley's Aunt (which starred Jack Benny) and played the romantic lead in 1943's The Gang's All Here, a Twentieth Century Fox musical in which he seemed somewhat lost among the vivid antics of Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, and Edward Everett Horton (and was the only principal not to sing a note). He also co-starred with Tom Conway and Frances Dee in Val Lewton's production of I Walked with a Zombie, directed by Jacques Tourneur.
Ellison landed another romantic lead role as 'Jerry Gibson' in the musical film Lady, Let's Dance (1944) which starred ice skating sensation 'Belita'.
In the early 1950s, Ellison moved from acting to real estate. Joining fellow veteran Jackie Coogan, Ellison returned to the screen only once to play Axel 'Longhorn' Gates in a picture called When the Girls Take Over (1962).
James Ellison died at age 83 in Monterey, California after suffering a broken neck as the result of a fall.
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Alex 'Longhorn' Gates (as Jimmy Ellison)
A comic look...at Cuba after Castro regime take over.
Dan Winslow (as Jimmie Ellison)
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Jim Fallon (as Jimmy Ellison)
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Jim Kirby (as Jimmy Ellison)
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Clancy
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Jeff Benson
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Gordon Hastings
A western in which Calamity Jane's (Evelyn Ankers) rightful ownership of a gambling hall is challenged. She nearly loses the business to a shady crook, but Texas lawyer Ellison puts up a legal battle to help her stay in charge. After a sensational fight, the letters proving her right are discovered.
Capt. Jeff Packard
Going undercover as the notorious "Waco Kid," U.S. Army Captain Jeff Packard (Ellison) manages to infiltrate a gang of gold-shipment thieves lead by nasty Walt Anderson (Ted Adams). But Anderson and his gang are not the only troublemakers around: Packard must also contend with Geronimo (Chief Thundercloud) and his Apache warriors, who are demanding guns in exchange for peace.
Shamrock Ellison
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Shamrock Ellison
Ellison is the star searching for the killer of his parents while Hayden's a not-too-bad bandit leader.
Shamrock Ellison
An outlaw impersonates Shamrock in order to lease his land to an oil company for $75,000.
Shamrock Kid
The Shamrock Kid, Lucky, and The Colonel get caught in a feud between outlaws and homesteaders.
Shamrock Ellison
Shamrock and Lucky team up to drive the Tulliver Brothers out of Heldorado.
Jimmy Ellison
Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business. Several country-western stars come to his rescue by agreeing to appear on a TV special to be broadcast from his club.
Shamrock Ellison
In this remake of No Man's Range (1935), Shamrock travels to the ranch of his stepfather who he has never met and finds himself caught in the middle of a range war.
Duke Barnum
A cowboy must clear himself of a murder he did not commit.
Monte Crandall
Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Things come to a head during his trial, where the invisible ghost takes the witness stand on Our Hero's behalf.
Steve Adams
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Larry Winters
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
Mike Burke
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Jerry Gibson
Singing, dancing, and ice skating are featured in this musical that focuses on ice-skating sensation Belita. The story begins as she travels to a California resort where she has been hired as a replacement for a dance team. The resort is run by a handsome fellow. As a result of the gig, the skater becomes a national star while the resort manager gets fired and becomes a drifter until he ends up in the Army. The Oscar nominated score includes the following songs: "Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams", "Dream of Dreams", "Rio", "In the Days of Beau Brummel", "Lady, Let's Dance", "Happy Hearts", "Ten Million Men and a Girl", and the rhumba standard "Esperanza".
Andy Mason
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
Cadet
Un cadete de una academia militar invita a Lucille Ball a participar en el gran baile de la academia. Su agente la convence de que vaya para dar un empujón a su carrera. Las cosas se complican cuando aparece sin previo aviso la novia del cadete.
Wesley Rand
Vudú, zombies y magia negra se combinan en una isla misteriosa en este clásico de terror de serie B dirigido por Jacques Tourneur ("La mujer pantera"). Una producción de Val Lewton para uno de los títulos míticos del género.
Roger Hudson
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Capt. James Mason
Drama about military doctors and nurses during wartime.
Robert Curtis
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Henry Summers
A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.
Thomas Aldrich
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P. Cadwallader Jones
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Bob Clemens
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Jack Chesney
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Tim Kelly
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Thomas Elwood Dice
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
Tony Pringle
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Andrew Hinklin
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Mike
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Jeff Buchanan
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.
Bill Loomis
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Jeff Carter
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
Dan Preston
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
Anthony J. Anthony
Narra las andanzas de una caprichosa y alocada heredera que, para salvar un escollo testamentario, decide encontrar marido, lo antes posible, aunque sea pagando... Con lo que no contaba es con que podría enamorarse.
Ralph Thurston
Dos hermanas rebeldes, es un estupendo clasico basado en una novela de Kate Douglas Wiggin de nacionalidad estadounidense, bajo la dirección de Rowland V. Lee. En 1963, Disney Productions hizo una versión de la historia de Wiggin llamada Summer Magic, protagonizada por Hayley Mills y Burl Ives y dirigida por James Neilson.
Keith Morgan
El profesor universitario Peter Morgan se encuentra a su primo Keith totalmente ebrio en un club nocturno, por lo que tiene que avisar a su madre. Durante la espera, Peter ve cantar a Francey y, automáticamente, se queda prendado de ella. De forma impulsiva, Peter y Francey se casan y cogen un tren para ir a ver al padre de él. Pero Peter teme la reacción de su conservadora familia y convencerá a su primo para que se haga pasar por la pareja de Francey.
William J. "Bill" Martin
The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man, the other the scion of a wealthy family, the third decent but somewhat slow-witted--and their struggles with the rigors of the academy, women, and each other.
Sgt. Robert Gray
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.
Johnny Nelson
Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along the border. Loco, the head bad guy, deflects suspicion from himself by pretending to be a moron.
Johnny Nelson
Hoppy, Johnny and Windy are fighting a malicious gang trying to stop a cattle drive from reaching a drought-stricken North.
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody
Wild Bill Hickok busca la ayuda de su amigo Buffalo Bill Cody (llamado así por haber matado a más de 4.000 bisontes) para tratar de detener el levantamiento de las tribus indias en el salvaje Oeste y capturar al renegado que les vende las armas. Calamity Jane, enamorada de Bill Hickok se unirá a ellos... Wild Bill intentará detener una sublevación india incitada por traficantes de armas blancos.
Johnny Nelson
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.
Johnny Nelson
Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like Johnny did it. When Johnny flees he runs into Linda. He takes a liking to her only to learn her father Shanghai is one of Porter's gang. Going after Shanghai, he gets captured by the gang and Porter now plans to kill him. But Hoppy is near by and Johnny will get unexpected help from Shanghai.
Johnny Nelson
Problems come in the form of one of Hopalong Cassidy's neighbors, but the matter is settled when Hoppy roots out the troublemaker.
Mac MacDonald
Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody" Davis infiltrates a gang of Shanghai gunrunners to bring the culprit to justice.
Jimmy Peyton
Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to California, a perilous journey that she shares with kind young Judy Martin. When Judy and another fellow traveler discover the unfortunate truth about Alfred, they struggle to spare Amelia's feelings.
Johnny Nelson
Cattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream.
Johnny Nelson
When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.
Johnny Nelson
An evil ranch foreman tries to provoke a range war by playing two cattlemen against each other while helping a gang to rustle the cattle. Each cattleman blames the other for missing cattle. With the help of Bill Cassidy (Hop-along, because of an earlier bullet wound) and Johnny Nelson, the warring cattlemen join forces to do in the outlaws.
Dale Every
Una actriz, de la que está enamorado su agente, acaba casándose con un millonario.
Jimmy
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
Detective (uncredited)
An embezzler who expects to serve his time in prison and then pick up his buried loot is in for a surprise.
Reporter Lane (uncredited)
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglers", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
Elmer
A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.
