Buddy Messinger

Nascimento : 1907-10-26, San Francisco, California, USA

Morte : 1965-10-25

Filmes

Sua Criada Obrigada
Butcher Boy (uncredited)
Os membros de uma pequena comunidade abastada ficam preocupados quando é revelado que uma de suas empregadas domésticas está escrevendo uma exposição reveladora.
Brooklyn Orchid
Bellhop with Flowers
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Reporter
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
A Porta de Ouro
Hospital Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
Cidadão Kane
Man at Boat Dock (uncredited)
Charles Foster Kane foi um menino pobre que acaba se tornando um dos homens mais ricos do mundo. O filme inicia com a sua morte, momentos antes da qual pronuncia a palavra "Rosebud". Após dias de sensacionalismo em cima da notícia de sua morte, o jornalista Jerry Thompson é enviado por seu chefe para investigar a vida de Kane, a fim de descobrir o sentido de sua última palavra, a qual ninguém sabia. Entrevistando pessoas do passado de Kane, o jornalista mergulha na vida de um homem solitário, que desde a infância é obrigado a seguir a vontade alheia. Ninguém a seu redor importa-se com Kane, que busca por meio da aquisição de bens a adoração das pessoas. Ao final, Thompson, após a exaustiva investigação da vida de Kane através de entrevistas, se vê incapaz de descobrir o significado da palavra, concluindo que "Charles Foster Kane foi um homem que possuiu tudo o que quis e depois perdeu tudo. Talvez Rosebud seja algo que ele nunca tenha possuído ou algo que tenha perdido".
Love Thy Neighbor
Elevator Boy
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
Keeping Company
Basketball Ticket Boy
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
Hullabaloo
Third Page
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
Andy Hardy e a Grã-Fina
Elevator Boy (uncredited)
O juiz Hardy leva sua família para Nova York, onde Andy rapidamente se apaixona por uma socialite. Ele acha a vida da alta sociedade muito cara e, eventualmente, decide que ele gostou mais de voltar para casa.
Turnabout
Elevator Boy (uncredited)
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Reporter
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Fast and Furious
First Elevator Boy (uncredited)
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Sergeant Madden
Hospital Clerk
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Fast and Loose
Clerk
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
Este Mundo Louco
Usher
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
A Mulher Proibida
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
Namoro Mascarado
Theatre Usher
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
Wings Over Honolulu
Boy
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
College Holiday
Dancer
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
Libeled Lady
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
Three of a Kind
Bellhop
A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.
Tempos Modernos
Cigar Counterman (uncredited)
O icónico Vagabundo está empregado em uma fábrica, onde as máquinas inevitável e completamente o dominam e vários percalços o levam para a prisão. Entre suas passagens pela prisão, ele conhece e faz amizade com uma garota órfã. Ambos, juntos e separados, tentam lidar com as dificuldades da vida moderna, o Vagabundo trabalhando como garçom e, eventualmente, um artista.
Stage Mother
Fellow in Third Row
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
Cheer Up and Smile
Donald
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.
Rostinho de Anjo
Hank
Experiente vigarista Dolly Crandall retorna ao 'jogo de texugo' mas tem uma mudança de coração, quando ela se apaixona por um jovem que acredita que ela é um sulista rica.
Monkeys Prefer Blondes
A Sunkist Comedy
Young Ideas
Bob Lowden
Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values. Octavia Lowden (LaPlante) has virtually become a drudge in order to support her sponging relatives -- flapper sister Eloise (Lucille Ricksen), hypochondriac Aunt Minnie (Lydia Yeamans Titus), and storytelling Uncle Eph (James O. Barrows). Only Octavia's frail grandmother (Jennie Lee) really needs help. When Octavia's sweetheart, photographer Pritchett Spence (T. Roy Barnes), discovers the toll these bloodsuckers are exacting, he plots with the family doctor to rescue her.
The Whispered Name
The Office Boy
Anne Gray (Ruth Clifford) runs off with Robert Gordon (William E. Lawrence), believing that he is going to marry her. When they arrive at a hotel, another guest, Langdon Van Kreel (Charles Clary), sees though Gordon's ploy and chases him away.
Abysmal Brute
Buddy Sangster
A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great strength and athletic skill, he is completely out of his league when it comes to women. He becomes a successful boxer in San Francisco and is given the name "The Abysmal Brute". When he rescues a drowning man, he meets a beautiful socialite named Maude Sangster and falls in love. His lack of social skills proves a hindrance when a rival suitor competes with him for Maude's affections.
The Flirt
Hedrick Madison
Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss, who has come to town to promote oil stock. When Cora's father refuses to become involved, she forges his name on some papers, thus enabling Corliss to sell many shares.
When Love Comes
Coleridge Twin
Jane Coleridge and Peter Jamison are a pair of small town sweethearts. She's an old-fashioned girl and he's timid, but he manages to get up the nerve to propose and asks her to run away with him. Unfortunately, around the time Jane's supposed to meet him at the station her father dies and she has to take care of her brothers and sisters. Jamison believes she loves someone else and disappears for several years. When he finally returns, he has a three-year-old child in tow. But he explains that his wife has been unfaithful and he and Jane renew their romance. Then wife shows up and causes trouble by claiming that Jamison left her for Jane.
Shadows
'Mr. Bad Boy'
Yen Sin, um chinês humilde, é lavado à terra depois de uma tempestade e encontra-se um estranho em na comunidade pesqueira profundamente cristã de Urkey. Yen Sin escolhe ficar, apesar de seu status de "pagão" desprezível, apenas para revelar a hipocrisia no meio da sociedade hipócrita .
Jinx
Orphan
The circus comes to town, and the town's orphans are treated to a day at the circus. The circus troupe's 'Jinx' girl causes so many problems for the performers and performances that, to escape punishment, she has to run away. She mingles with the orphans and runs away to join an orphanage.
The Hoodlum
Dish Lowry
A spoiled young rich girl is forced by misfortune to fight for survival in the slums and alleys, where she becomes involved with all manner of unpleasantness.
Treasure Island
Captain Smolett
Jim Hawkins and his widowed mother run the Admiral Ben Bow Inn, but when they are threatened by a pirate attack, they stay with friend, the squire, for the night. He is given something from Mrs. Hawkins. The squire discovers it's a map showing the location of the treasure buried by someone named Flint. Jim overhears how the squire is planning to retrieve the treasure and feels inspired by it ...
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Omar - Al-talib's Evil Spirit
In Bagdad, Princess Badr al-Budur, the daughter of the Sultan, falls in love with Aladdin, the son of a poor tailor, and rejects the suit of evil alchemist al-Talib, her father's choice. Al-Talib consults his Evil Spirit, who advises him to find the magic lamp hidden in an underground cave. Unable to get it himself, al-Talib hires Aladdin, who secures the lamp but keeps it when he realizes al-Talib's wickedness. With wealth obtained through wishes, Aladdin courts the princess. After the lamp changes hands between al-Talib and Aladdin, al-Talib steals it and abducts the princess to the desert. Aladdin follows with only a gourd of water. Suffering from thirst and exhaustion, Aladdin nearly succumbs, but the horsemen of the Sultan, who learned of his daughter's abduction, ride up and rescue Aladdin.
The Old Nest
Jim at 10
A mother raises her six children and one by one lets them go out into the world. Their failures and successes fill her life, but she grows lonely without them. Then when one of the children has a surprise to announce, they all return home to be with their mother.