Jack Kenney

Jack Kenney

Nacimiento : 1902-12-05, Vladimir, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Muerte : 1961-01-27

Perfil

Jack Kenney

Películas

When the Clock Strikes
Cafe Proprietor
A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.
The Gambler Wore a Gun
Bartender
The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the Sheriff's life, who got into an ambush. However another man is dead, Will Donovan, from whom he bought the ranch! Neither the Sheriff nor Donovan's children know about the sale. So Case has to switch back to his former profession, while he tries to clarify the situation. He comes across a group of cattle thieves.
Gun Fight
Jake (as Jack Kenny)
Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wayne (James Brown) refuses to join his brother Brad's (Gregg Palmer) unlawful cattle rustling gang, which leads to heated disagreements, bitter betrayals and life-threatening danger.
Que nadie escriba mi epitafio
Shabby Man (uncredited)
Retrato con fondo social de la atormentada vida de un chico y su madre, cuyo padre y marido fue ejecutado en la silla eléctrica. Secuela de "Knock on Any Door" (1949).
Noose for a Gunman
Shotgun Guard (uncredited)
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
A Dog's Best Friend
Motel Proprietor (uncredited)
A young orphan rejects his foster parents and instead turns to a German shepherd whose master was recently murdered. Stumbling on some evidence, the boy is rescued from the killer by his dog.
Vice Raid
Mob Boss Leo Dempsey
A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.
Invasores invisibles
Car Crash Victim
Unos extraterrestres informan al científico Penner (Philip Tongue) que ellos han estado escondidos en la luna durante siglos, invisibles ante los ojos de los telescopios terrestres, y ahora han decidido aniquilar la Tierra a no ser que las principales potencias firmen la rendición incondicional de inmediato. Un equipo al mando de Penner se autoaisla en un laboratorio secreto para estudiar la manera de vencer a estos invasores y hallar su punto débil. Pero tendrán que resistir el embate de los invasores que se han adueñado de los cuerpos de las personas muertas
Guns Girls and Gangsters
Armored Car Guard (uncredited)
Chuck Wheeler gets out of the Pen and sets up an elaborate heist of Vegas casino money travelling by armored truck. He enlists the help of shady club owner Joe Darren and his ex-cellmate's wife, Vi. Vi's husband Mike is a trigger happy and jealous hothead and will not grant her a divorce. Mike escapes from prison right before the armored truck job goes into motion and promises trouble as he tries to locate his associates and his wandering wife.
Cazador de forajidos
Sam Hodges
Un antiguo sheriff (Henry Fonda), que se ha convertido en cazador de recompensas, llega a un conflictivo pueblo, donde no es bien recibido. Después de conocer al joven e indeciso sheriff (Anthony Perkins), intenta ayudarlo a resolver los problemas que tiene pendientes.
La máscara del dolor
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Joe E. Lewis, un prometedor cantante, pierde la voz a causa del ataque de unos gángsteres Al verse obligado a cambiar de profesión, decide trabajar como humorista.
Marcado por el odio
Reformatory Guard (uncredited)
Biopic sobre el boxeador Rocky Graziano, un joven italoamericano que, después de su paso por distintos reformatorios, se convirtió en campeón de boxeo de los pesos medios. Acostumbrado a la violencia del East Side neoyorquino, Rocky encontró el éxito en el ring gracias a una combinación de talento, ambición y tenacidad.
Battle Stations
The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.
Chicago Syndicate
Crowd Member at Murder Scene (Uncredited)
An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.
New York Confidential
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.
Women's Prison
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
Ha nacido una estrella
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Norman Maine, un famoso actor adicto al alcohol, descubre a Esther, una joven con un gran talento para la canción y decide impulsar su carrera cinematográfica. Ella consigue la fama y, a los pocos meses, la pareja contrae matrimonio. Pero, a medida que el éxito de Esther aumenta, decae el de Norman, y esta situación lo empuja a la autodestrucción.
Ola de crímenes
Lefty (uncredited)
Tres criminales atracan una gasolinera, pero uno de ellos resulta herido y es abandonado a su suerte. Perseguido por la policía, busca refugio en casa de un ex presidiario reformado, que se verá envuelto a su pesar en los planes del grupo.
Los crímenes del museo de cera
Lodger (uncredited)
El escultor de un museo de cera tiene una fuerte discusión con su socio, porque éste pretende incendiar el local para cobrar el seguro. Años después, mientras el profesor Jarrod intenta reconstruir el museo, se producen extrañas desapariciones.
Up in Daisy's Penthouse
Chopper
The Stooges are sent by their mother to stop their rich fathers plan to remarry. Shemp plays dual role as Shemp and Father.
Más allá del bosque
Rosa (Bette Davis), la insatisfecha esposa de Lewis Moline (Cotten), un bondadoso médico de pueblo, es una mujer ambiciosa y sin escrúpulos que no se detendrá ante nada con tal de lograr su propósito: acostarse con el rico industrial Neil Latimer (David Brian) e irse a vivir con él a Chicago. Para conseguirlo utiliza todos los medios a su alcance: el engaño, la traición y el crimen.
Muerte al amanecer
Headwaiter (uncredited)
Un marinero que debe coger un autocar para volver con su compañía se ve implicado en el asesinato de una mujer que disfruta chantajeando a varias personas. Una muchacha y un taxista se unirán para demostrar la inocencia del joven en unas horas.
Aventura
Man in Library (uncredited)
Un marino mercante que lleva una vida bastante despreocupada se enamora de una dulce y sumisa bibliotecaria, pero muy pronto se da cuenta de que no puede seguir con ella porque su vida es el mar.
Atlantic City
Ed Gallagher
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
Sleepy Lagoon
Lug (uncredited)
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
Misión en Moscú
Heckler (uncredited)
El empresario Joseph E. Davies es nombrado por el presidente Roosevelt embajador de los Estados Unidos en la Unión Soviética para que averigüe cuáles son las intenciones de este país respecto a la inminente Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). El embajador se llevará algunas sorpresas en una nación que pocos conocen realmente.
The Hard Way
Theatrical Agent (Uncredited)
La ambiciosa Helen Chernen (Ida Lupino) empuja a su joven hermana Katherine (Joan Leslie) a casarse con el frustrado artista de variedades Albert Runkel (Jack Carson) y, de esta forma, las dos mujeres pueden abandonar la sucia ciudad donde viven. El socio de Runkel, Paul Collins (Dennis Morgan), sin embargo, intuye el plan de Helen. Helen continúa conduciendo la carrera de su hermana y finalmente Katherine se convierte en una estrella de Broadway, mientras que las actuaciones de Runkel y Collins se tambalean. Pronto el éxito se le sube a la cabeza a Katherine y se convierte en una chica de vida fiestera. El tiempo pasa y Helen y Katherine se tropiezan con Paul, ahora el líder de una exitosa banda. Katherine y Paul se enamoran. Las dos hermanas tienen finalmente un enfrentamiento en el estreno del último espectáculo de Katherine, cuando ésta descubre que Helen también está enamorada de Paul.
Fall In
Cigar Store Customer
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Kenny (uncredited)
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.
Jackass Mail
Train Conductor
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Maisie Gets Her Man
Man in Office (Uncredited)
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Police Lt. Berke
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Toda la banda está aquí
Henchman Dink
Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.
El hermano orquídea
Acquaintance (uncredited)
El gángster Little John Sarto viaja por Europa en busca de estilo, sin embargo nunca podrá poseer ese toque que anhela. Cuando regresa a América sin un dólar encuentra a su banda liderada por Jack Buck y a su novia convertida en una nueva rica.
Esta mujer es mía
Clinic Well-Wisher with Cigar (uncredited)
Durante un viaje en barco, Georgi Gragore, una bella modelo que acaba de sufrir un desengaño amoroso, está a punto de arrojarse por la borda, pero se lo impide Karl Decker, un médico con el que acaba casándose. A pesar de ello, Georgi sigue obsesionada por el hombre que la llevó a tomar tan fatal determinación; perfectamente consciente de ello, su marido le propone que decida libremente si quiere seguir con él o si prefiere volver al pasado.
Dick Tracy's G-Men
Ward
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
In Old Monterey
Sergeant with Cigar
The (pre-WWII) Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there.
Hell's Kitchen
Pants - a Henchman (uncredited)
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
Wyoming Outlaw
Radioman Doyle
Con él mismo y su padre sin trabajo por culpa de Balsinger, quien controla los empleos, Will Parker roba ganado para mantener a su familia. Los Tres Mezquiteros intentan ayudarle, pero es apresado y encarcelado...
Daredevils of the Red Circle
Steve
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Gym Spectator with Cigar (uncredited)
Mientras participa en un concurso del periódico local en el que se les pide a los escolares que envíen una noticia, la hija del abogado local Carson Drew, Nancy, intercepta una asignación de historia real. Ella "cubre" la investigación de la muerte de una mujer que fue envenenada. Nancy no cree que la joven acusada del crimen sea culpable y acorrala a su vecino Ted para que busque una evidencia vital y tropieza con la identidad del verdadero asesino.
A mí no me engaña nadie
Barker
El señor Whipsnade dirige un circo de mala muerte y vive abrumado por las deudas. Además, los artistas sólo le crean problemas, y sólo puede permitirse enviar a sus hijos a un colegio pésimo. Su hija Vicky rechaza a un pretendiente fastidioso pero muy rico. Sin embargo, cuando se entera de las graves dificultades económicas de su padre cambia de idea.
Racket Busters
Truck Driver (uncredited)
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
You're a Sweetheart
Pete (uncredited)
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
The Big Noise
Schmidt's Henchman (uncredited)
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
Don't Bet on Blondes
Telephone Bet Taker (Uncredited)
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Stage Frights
Two bumbling detectives help a stage actress who has been receiving threatening letters.
Uncivil Warriors
Soldier
Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
Pop Goes the Easel
Laughing Art Student
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
Blind Date
Patron
Una joven mujer se debate entre un pretendiente rico que solo quiere su cuerpo y un joven honesto que quiere lo mejor para ella.
Punch Drunks
K.O. Cornerman
Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe becomes Curly's manager, and they win every fight, with the help of Larry. At the championship game, though, Larry's violin breaks. Curly is getting beat down bad when Larry makes his unexpected entrance and helps Curly prevail.
El enemigo público número 1
Policeman (uncredited)
Dos niños que han perdido a sus familias en un accidente son adoptados por el mismo padre. Sin embargo, el destino los llevará por caminos muy distintos y hará que se enamoren de la misma mujer.
Let's Fall in Love
Movie Set Crewman
A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.