James Donlan

James Donlan

출생 : 1888-07-23, San Francisco, California, USA

사망 : 1938-06-07

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James Donlan was an American stage and screen actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1929 and 1939.

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James Donlan

참여 작품

Babes in Arms
Fred (uncredited)
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.
Professor Beware
Man Reported at Museum
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Borrowing Trouble
Casey
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Music for Madame
Suspect with Cold (Uncredited)
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
It Happened in Hollywood
Shorty
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
This Is My Affair
Reporter
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
The Plot Thickens
Jim
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
Crash Donovan
Smokey
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
Boulder Dam
Nightclub Manager (uncredited)
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
We're Only Human
Casey
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Dr. Socrates
Salesman in Car
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
Here Comes the Band
Joe (uncredited)
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Hot Tip
Bill - Racetrack Bettor
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
The Daring Young Man
Captain of the Prison Guard
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
The Case of the Curious Bride
Detective Fritz
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.
Traveling Saleslady
Andy McNeill
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
Life Begins at Forty
Farmer
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
항간의 화제
Detective Sergeant Patrick J. Howe
평범한 회사원 아서 존스는 흥미로울 것 하나 없는 단조로운 삶을 살고 있다. 그러던 어느 날, 하루아침에 아서의 삶이 뒤바뀐다. 그답지 않게 늦잠을 자고 지각을 한 날, 그는 본보기로 해고당하고 만다. 더구나 아서는 악명 높은 살인마 매니언으로 오인 받아 체포되기까지 한다. 매니언과 너무나 닮은 외모에 놀란 경찰은 다시는 아서가 곤란한 상황을 겪지 않도록 특별한 통행증을 발급해준다. 이 사건으로 아서는 유명해지고, 살인마 매니언까지 이 사실을 알게 되어 아서가 가진 통행증을 빼앗으려 한다. "리틀 시저"(1930, 머빈 르로이) "하이 시에라"(1941, 라울 월시) 등의 각본을 쓴 W. R. 버넷의 원안을 프랭크 카프라와 주로 작업했던 로버트 리스킨과 조 스월링이 각색하였다. 너무나 닮은 두 사람 중 한 사람은 평범한 회사원, 다른 한 사람은 살인마라는 도플갱어 설정이 매우 흥미롭다. 이 작품으로 아서 역을 맡았던 로빈슨은 오랜 부진에서 벗어날 수 있었다.
Under Pressure
Corky
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.
벨 오브 더 나인티스
Kirby (Tiger Kid's manager)
Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.
Paris Interlude
Jones - Times Reporter
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
A Very Honorable Guy
Mr. O'Toole
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
Dark Hazard
Man Advising Jim at Dog Track
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
Hi, Nellie!
Evans (uncredited)
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
삶의 설계
Fat Man with Ring (uncredited)
광고미술을 하는 길다는 파리행 기차에서 젊은 예술가 조지와 토마스를 만난다. 두 청년은 동시에 길다의 매력에 빠지고, 그녀를 사랑하게 된다. 두 청년 중 한 명을 선택할 수 없던 길다는 그들의 친구이자 뮤즈가 되어 셋이 함께 지내자고 제안한다. 그러나 그들의 플라토닉러브는 유통기한이 그리 길지 않고, 그들의 관계에는 균열이 생긴다. 노엘 카워드의 동명희곡을 각색한 작품으로, 루비치는 세 남녀의 모호한 관계를 통해 할리우드의 도덕성을 꼬집는다.
I Loved a Woman
Voting Returns Announcer (uncredited)
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
닥터 불
Harry Weems
외진 마을에서 의사로 일하고 있는 주인공 불은 같은 동네에 사는 과부인 자넷 카드메이커와 사귀는 사이다. 두 사람에 대한 소문으로 온 동네가 떠들썩한 와중에 장티푸스가 발생하고, 초기 치료에 실패하면서 전염병은 걷잡을 수 없이 퍼진다. 긴급회의를 소집한 마을 주민들은 새로운 의사를 불러오기로 결정한다. 불은 자신의 직업과 명예, 젊은 환자의 생명을 구할 수 있는 방법을 찾아내야만 한다.
The Avenger
Durant
A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.
College Humor
Marcus Lafflin
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
The Mayor of Hell
Sam (uncredited)
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
The Nuisance
Photographer (uncredited)
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
The Working Man
Hartland Company Salesman (uncredited)
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
밀랍 박물관의 비밀
Morgue Attendant (Uncredited)
영화는 아이반 아이고어라는 조각가가 세운 런던의 밀랍 인형 박물관에서 시작된다. 박물관의 상업적 성과에 실망한 그의 동업자는 화재 보험으로 투자한 돈을 회수하기 위해 박물관에 불을 지르고 아이고어는 그 안에 갇히고 말죠. 프롤로그가 끝나면 영화는 십여년의 세월과 대서양을 건너뛰어 1933년의 뉴욕으로 관객들을 끌고 갑니다. 기삿거리가 떨어져 해고 직전인 맹렬 신문기자 플로렌스는 조운 게일이라는 여자의 살인사건을 수사하다가 지난 몇 개월 동안 일어난 일련의 연쇄 살인사건과 마주치게 되는데, 이 사건의 공통점은 살인사건 이후 모두 시체들이 사라졌다는 것이었죠. 화재로 불구가 된 아이반 아이고어가 뉴욕에 세운 밀랍 인형 박물관에 조운 게일과 이상할 정도로 닮은 잔 다르크의 인형이 전시되어 있다는 걸 알아차린 플로렌스는 아이고어가 그 살인사건들과 어떤 관련이 있다고 믿게 됩니다. 그러는 동안 아이고어는 플로렌스의 룸메이트인 샬롯에게 마리 앙트와네트 밀랍 인형의 모델이 되어달라고 부탁하죠.
What! No Beer?
Al (uncredited)
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
First Reporter (uncredited)
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
Penguin Pool Murder
Security Guard Fink
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.
The Death Kiss
Max Hill
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
Thirteen Women
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive are not good for any of them.
Huddle
Heckler at Game (uncredited)
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
Just a Pain in the Parlor
Mr. Smith
Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.
The Final Edition
Freddie
A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.
Big Dame Hunting
A drunken husband tries to sneak in but his wife catches him... and that means trouble!
Men of Chance
Clark
A gambler falls for a fake countess.
Five Star Final
An unscrupulous newspaper editor searches for headlines at any cost.
Sporting Blood
Jim, a Trainer (uncredited)
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
A Free Soul
Reporter (uncredited)
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
The Good Bad Girl
Police Sgt. Donovan
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
Daybreak
Drunk Inviting Laura to Dance
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
The Painted Desert
Steve - Ore Wagon #2 Shotgun Rider
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?
Mothers Cry
City Editor
Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life of crime and now returns to inflict his insane behavior on the family household.
Remote Control
Blodgett
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
Danger Lights
Picnic Barker (uncredited)
Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan doesn't notice the growing attraction between his protégé and his intended but focuses instead on running the railroad.
The Sins of the Children
Bide Taylor
A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
The Fall Guy
The Bill Collector
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.
Beau Bandit
Buck
Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and his posse. Montero has intentions of robbing the bank owned by skinflint Lucius Perkins, but is sidetracked by the attractions of singing-teacher Helen Wardell. He learns that Perkins has marital designs on Helen and holds the mortgage on her ranch. But Helen is in love with Bill Howard. Perkins offers Montero money to kill his rival.
The Bishop Murder Case
Ernest Heath
The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was part of a nursery rhyme and signed by 'Bishop'. The only witness may have been Mrs. Drukker and Adolph, but they are not talking. As the murders progress, each one is accompanied by a nursery rhyme. It is up to Philo Vance to unravel the clues and unmask the identity of the murderer 'Bishop'.
Copy
Adams
On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line.
Wise Girls
Ben Wade
Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste.
Big News
Deke
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.