Sumner Getchell

Sumner Getchell

Nacimiento : 1906-10-20, Oakland, California, USA

Muerte : 1990-09-21

Perfil

Sumner Getchell

Películas

Infierno blanco
Lieutenant Cord
Un avión de mercancías se estrella en las tierras heladas de la península del Labrador. Mientras la tripulación espera ser rescatada, el piloto tendrá que ingeniárselas para mantener a sus hombres con vida en tan duras condiciones. (FILMAFFINITY)
Bannerline
A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
Chain of Circumstance
Fred Martindale
A childless couple adopts a baby girl, but a crime committed by the husband's secretary could cause them to lose custody of the infant.
La luz brilló dos veces
Rancher
Una actriz de teatro se dirige a un pueblecito, cerca de la frontera con México, con el fin de descansar y tomar el sol. Allí se enamora de un hombre que ha sido condenado por el asesinato de su esposa y está en libertad bajo fianza. Aunque ella cree que es inocente, no puede evitar que le inspire miedo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Insurance Investigator
Insurance Agent
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
Estación Unión
Police Car Driver (uncredited)
A Joyce Willecombe le inspiran desconfianza dos hombres que viajan con ella en el tren; llama entonces a Calhoun (Holden), el jefe de policía de la Estación Unión. Aunque éste, al principio, se muestra escéptico, todo parece indicar que los sospechosos están implicados en un caso de secuestro, razón por la cual Calhoun pide ayuda al inspector de policía Donnelly, pero los secuestradores son muy escurridizos.
Amarga sombra
George Spears (uncredited)
Una mujer descubre que padece una enfermedad terminal y decide ocultárselo a su familia y hacer que los pocos meses que le quedan de vida sean los más felices para sus seres queridos.
Perfect Strangers
John Simon
Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David Campbell start to fall in love.
My Girl Tisa
Georgie
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
Memorias de una doncella
Pierre (Uncredited)
Celestine consigue trabajo como doncella en la mansión de los Lanlaire, una decadente y excéntrica familia aristocrática. Su objetivo es servirse de su belleza para seducir a un hombre rico, pero el señor Lanlaire no parece el hombre adecuado debido al férreo control que su madre ejerce sobre él con la ayuda de un extraño mayordomo.
Remedy for Riches
First Hotel Clerk
A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
La dama en cuestión
Fat Boy
Natalie (Rita Hayworth) es acusada de asesinato. André (Brian Aherne), uno de los miembros del jurado, está tan seguro de su inocencia que logra convencer a sus compañeros para que la declaren inocente. Además, compadecido de ella, le ofrece trabajo en su tienda de bicicletas. Por su parte, Pierre (Glenn Ford), el hijo de André, se enamora de Natalie, aunque cree que su padre tiene un lío con ella.
El doctor se casa
Wedding Celebrant
Una autora de libros feministas y un profesor de medicina bastante retrógrado, encuentran que les beneficia mutuamente simular que están casados.
These Glamour Girls
'Blimpy'
Un estudiante universitario borracho invita a una chica al gran baile, pero luego olvida que se lo pidió. Cuando ella se presenta en la universidad, él trata de deshacerse de ella, pero la chica no se marcha, se mantiene en sus trece y se deja ver con él ante sus presumidos compañeros de clase.
There Goes the Groom
Billy Rapp
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.
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Harry
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
Chinatown Squad
Fat Boy Tourist
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
Circus Shadows
A phoney "psychic" ring tricks a pretty young circus performer into working for them.
The Spectacle Maker
The Lens Buyer
A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.
Desirable
Frederick
Un hombre conoce a la hija de su amante y se enamora de ella.
Love and Hisses
Harry
Clark & McCullough hired to save love as the Judge refuses to marry Fanny Bender and Fanny refuses her daughter to marry the Judge's son unless the Judge marries her.
That's My Boy
Carl
Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.
Vanity Street
Scottie (uncredited)
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
You're Telling Me
Party Guest (uncredited)
In this The Boy Friends series short, college students Mickey and Alabam stay at a city friend's place for what they tell him will be one night - though it stretches into several months.
Daybreak
Emil
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
Maybe It's Love
Whiskers
A very young Joan Bennett tops the cast as Nan Sheffield, the daughter of a college president. The nominal leading man is Tommy Nelson, the black-sheep son of a wealthy alumnus. Though Nelson is an ace football player, President Sheffield refuses to enroll the boy because of his bad reputation, whereupon Tommy's father withdraws his financial backing and bars his son from ever setting foot on Sheffield's campus. Falling in love with Nan, Tommy signs up with the college under an assumed name, giving up his wastrel ways to lead the football team to victory. Joe E. Brown steals the show as Speed Hanson, a goofy gridiron star who emits a loud and long yell whenever scoring a touchdown (this was, in fact, the first film in which Brown's famous "Yeeeeowww" was heard -- but certainly not the last).
Cheer Up and Smile
Paul
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
Schoolmates
Judy (Ann Christy), dresses as a boy in order to attend the ceremony where "Cudgie" (Sumner Getchell) is being inducted into a fraternity at the college. The sign over the door at the fraternity has been moved, to fool her, to a building where, unknown to the frat boys, a notorious criminal is hiding.
Steeplechase
This entry of Universal's Sporting Youth series goes to the racetrack. The father of Cudgie (Sumner Getchell) has a horse entered in the Big Steeplechase. Judy (Ann Christy, Cudgie's girlfriend, learns that the jockey has taken a bride to throw the race, so she replaces him and wins the stock-footage race from a Universal feature film.
College Love
Fat
college love movie
New Year's Eve
Edward's Friend
Taking place over 24 hours, "New Year's Eve" is the story of Marjorie Ware, broke and unemployed, who despairs as her ailing younger brother languishes at home. She runs into rich gambler Larry Harmon and rejects his overtures. She later finds a wallet with 10 $100 bills belonging to Edward Warren.
The Flying Fleet
Kewpie (uncredited)
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate.
The College Widow
Jimmie Hopper
Following another instance of the perennial defeat of the Atwater College football team, President Witherspoon is told that unless better athletes can be induced to come to Atwater, he will be asked to resign. Acting upon the suggestion of Professor Jelicoe, Jane, the professor's beautiful daughter, uses her personal charm to draw noted football stars from neighboring schools by a series of ruses at a vacationing spot. Billy Bolton, son of a financial magnate, falls for Jane and to prove himself registers under another name and works his way through school, attaining scholastic and athletic honors. Through the jealousy of another girl, Billy learns of Jane's trickery and persuades the athletes not to play;