Jack Wise

Nascimento : 1888-01-02, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Morte : 1954-03-07

Filmes

Museu de Cera
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Henry Jarrod (Vincent Price) é um escultor que faz imagens magníficas para o seu museu de cera. Jarrod luta com seu sócio, Matthew Burke (Roy Roberts), quando este começa a incendiar o museu para receber US$ 25 mil do seguro. Jarrod tenta detê-lo em vão, sendo que logo o local todo se incendeia e é seguido por uma explosão, com Jarrod sendo considerado morto. Algum tempo depois, Matthew recebe o dinheiro do seguro e planeja viajar com Cathy Gray (Carolyn Jones), mas é morto por uma pessoa disforme, que na realidade é o próprio Jarrod, que simula o assassinato como se fosse suicídio. Pouco tempo depois, Jarrod mata Cathy Gray e rouba seu corpo do necrotério. Depois de algum tempo ele reaparece, dizendo que escapou por milagre. Quando Sue Allen (Phyllis Kirk), a colega de quarto de Cathy, vê a imagem de Joana D'Arc no museu, começa a suspeitar que é o corpo de Cathy coberto com cera.
The Screen Director
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview. Then a number of real directors are shown in archive footage (as well as a predominance of staged 'archive' footage) working with actors and crew.
Mademoiselle Fifi
Train Passenger in Lower (uncredited)
A garçonete do refeitório da Warner Brothers Judy Adams (Doris Day) está ansiosa para estourar nas telas. Ela acha que sua grande chance pode ter chegado quando os atores Jack Carson e Dennis Morgan concordam em ajudá-la. Mal sabe ela que os dois só estão tentando tirar um filme do buraco. E além disso o chefão do estúdio Arthur Trent (Bill Goodwin) não está ajudando nem um pouco. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Homicide
Hotel Tenant
Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?
Always Together
Husband (uncredited)
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
So You Want to Be in Pictures
Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
Um Sonho em Hollywood
Busboy (uncredited)
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
Uma Velha Amizade
Baggage Man (uncredited)
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
Comboio Para o Leste
Dispatcher (uncredited)
O tenente Joe Rossi é primeiro oficial num Navio da Liberdade em um grande comboio de Halifax para Murmansk. Depois de submarinos alemães atacarem o comboio seu navio se separa e está indo sozinho para Murmansk. Apesar dos ataques de aviões e submarinos alemães ele luta para levar o navio em segurança para Murmansk.
The Hard Way
Actor Leaving Theater (Uncredited)
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
Vaudeville Days
Man in Audience (uncredited)
A narrator provides very brief info on the beginnings and history of Vaudeville while Vaudeville acts are staged by impersonators and contemporary performers.
Casablanca
Waiter (uncredited)
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, muitos fugitivos tentavam escapar dos nazistas por uma rota que passava pela cidade de Casablanca. O exilado americano Rick Blaine encontrou refúgio na cidade, dirigindo uma das principais casas noturnas da região. Clandestinamente, tentando despistar o Capitão Renault, ele ajuda refugiados, possibilitando que eles fujam para os Estados Unidos. Quando um casal pede sua ajuda para deixar o país, ele reencontra uma grande paixão do passado, a bela Ilsa. Este amor vai encontrar uma nova vida e eles vão lutar para fugir juntos.
Gentleman Jim
Headwaiter (uncredited)
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
Highway West
Tourist (uncredited)
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Bad Men of Missouri
Tax Collector
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Quando a Noite Cai
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
A Shot in the Dark
Photographer
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
The Great Mr. Nobody
Newspaper Office Clerk
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
Knute Rockne All American
Football Fan at Game (uncredited)
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
No Time for Comedy
Actor in Show (uncredited)
Director William Keighley's 1940 film adaptation of S. N. Behrman's stage hit, about an aspiring playwright who finds himself an overnight Broadway success, stars James Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Genevieve Tobin, Louise Beavers, Charles Ruggles and Allyn Joslyn.
Money and the Woman
Seated Bank Customer (uncredited)
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
Dentro da Noite
Jake (uncredited)
Joe Fabrini (George Raft) e Paul Fabrini (Humphrey Bogart) são dois irmãos motoristas de caminhão que levam uma acidentada e explorada vida como caminhoneiros. Joe sonha com o dia em que terão seu próprio negócio. Eles acabam sendo demitidos do serviço de um patrão corrupto. Um acidente com Paul mudará os sonhos dessa dupla, e para tentar manter um emprego, Joe se vê envolvido em uma trama de crime com a mal-intencionada Lana Carlsen (Ida Lupino), mulher de seu patrão.
A Fugitive from Justice
Reporter at Train Station (uncredited)
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
Saturday's Children
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
'Til We Meet Again
Ship Officer (uncredited)
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
King of the Lumberjacks
Lumberjack at Wedding Reception (uncredited)
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
Alex in Wonderland
Count Clerk
In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to Fred's displeasure. Alex in is New York to look for a job and he sees an ad for a champagne salesman. He decides to crash a swank party given by railroad tycoon J.D. Swinnerton and his wife. Alex has his own zany way of getting an introduction to the man. Mayhem ensues when several of the guests come as Robin Hood and one of them is a jewel thief.
Alice in Movieland
Autograph Hound (uncredited)
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.
Três Horas Trágicas
1st Photographer (uncredited)
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Private Detective
Extra Leaving Courtroom (uncredited)
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.
Smashing the Money Ring
Prison Runner
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
On Your Toes
Stagehand
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
Nancy Drew e a Escada Secreta
Second Photographer (uncredited)
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
Indianapolis Speedway
Spectator
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
Each Dawn I Die
Convict (uncredited)
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Hell's Kitchen
Man in Line (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.
Nancy Desvenda um Crime
Extra Watching Fire
Nancy Drew clears her Uncle Matt of murder charges when she exposes the real murderers. She and Ted find themselves in many dangerous positions such as trying to fly an airplane after the pilot parachuted out and being face-to-face with the murderer.
Code of the Secret Service
Croupier (uncredited)
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Torchy Runs for Mayor
Police Stenographer (uncredited)
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
Women in the Wind
Welcoming Official / Cleveland Spectator (uncredited)
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Secret Service of the Air
Ivan's Alien Pal
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
Vendo o China
Party Guest (uncredited)
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
Blackwell's Island
Prison Barber (uncredited)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
They Made Me a Criminal
Second Fight Ticket Seller (uncredited)
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Comet Over Broadway
Stage Manager
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Caçando um Homem
Laughing Bystander (uncredited)
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
No Mundo da Lua
Night Club Patron on Dance Floor (uncredited)
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
Penrod's Double Trouble
First Reporter (uncredited)
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
Vítimas do Terror
Cashier (uncredited)
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
Cowboy de Asfalto
Reporter
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
Filhos Sem Lar
First Man Buying a Newspaper (uncredited)
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
Torchy Blane in Panama
Steward (uncredited)
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
Over the Wall
Clothesbox Convict Trusty
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
He Couldn't Say No
$30 Bidder
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
Loura do Outro Mundo
Joker in Bar (uncredited)
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
Love Is on the Air
KDTS Employee
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
White Bondage
Clerk
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
Talent Scout
Extra at Benefit Show (uncredited)
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Ever Since Eve
First Pedestrian (uncredited)
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
Melody for Two
Nightclub Patron
A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
Midnight Court
Court Clerk
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
Smart Blonde
Hymie (uncredited)
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
Guns of the Pecos
Davis Bros. Clerk
A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.
King of Hockey
Man with Penalty Timekeeper
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
The Captain's Kid
Weymouth, the Hotel Desk Clerk
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
Here Comes Carter
Lineman
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
Jailbreak
Reporter
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
Earthworm Tractors
Johnson's Clerk
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
Satã Encontrou uma Dama
Pushy Photographer (uncredited)
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
The Big Noise
Silent Sign Painter (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.
Balas ou Votos
Waiter (uncredited)
Depois que o capitão de polícia Dan McLaren se torna delegado, o ex-detetive Johnny Blake o despede, convencendo o chefe do crime organizado, Al Kruger, que o esforço de Blake é sincero para se unir ao crime organizado.
Sons o' Guns
Military Policeman
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
O Galante Mr. Deeds
Courtroom Reporter (uncredited)
O simplório e honesto Longfellow Deeds, de Mandrake Falls - Vermont, acaba herdando uma fortuna imensa. Ele precisará ir para a cidade grande, mas lidará com pessoas que só pensam em se aproveitar de sua fortuna e humildade. Uma delas é a repórter Babe Bennett, que fica amiga de Deeds somente porque está procurando uma boa história para seu jornal.
Road Gang
Convict at Farm (uncredited)
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
Freshman Love
Oggi's Attendant (uncredited)
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
Broadway Hostess
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
Don't Bet on Blondes
Man Going to Bet on Tip (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.
Dinky
Spud - Prison Visitor
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
A Night at the Ritz
Busboy (uncredited)
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
While the Patient Slept
Reporter (uncredited)
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
I Sell Anything
Spectator (uncredited)
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
O Caso do Cão Uivador
Telegram Clerk (uncredited)
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
The Circus Clown
Card Player
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
Smarty
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.
Hi, Nellie!
Vital Statistics Clerk (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.
Os Desaparecidos
Mr. Engel - Press Agent (uncredited)
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Hard to Handle
Florida Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
O Fugitivo
Tailor (uncredited)
Desempregado após o término da Primeira Guerra, Allen torna-se um vagabundo sem dinheiro. Quando assiste a outro homem cometendo um furto, é condenado injustamente a dez anos de cadeia, numa prisão na Geórgia. Lá, é perseguido por gangues e castigado cruelmente por guardas sádicos. Com a ajuda de outro prisioneiro, escapa e parte determinado em busca do sonho que tem de se tornar um engenheiro.
Big City Blues
Speakeasy Patron (uncredited)
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
Five Star Final
An unscrupulous newspaper editor searches for headlines at any cost.
The Doorway to Hell
Delivery Waiter (uncredited)
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
Numbered Men
Bugs - Convict (uncredited)
Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded King Callahan, set events in motion to prove that love and justice will prevail.
Smilin' Guns
Professor
After "Dirty Neck" Jack Purvin sees a newspaper photograph of Eastern socialite Helen Van Smythe, soon to arrive at the nearby dude ranch, he hightails it to San Francisco in order to learn how to become a gentleman. Returning to the ranch, the new but not necessarily improved Jack shreds his dandified image in order to save Helen from a lecherous but decidedly fake count and her mother from a jewel thief.