William Halligan
Nascimento : 1883-03-29, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Morte : 1957-01-28
Judge (uncredited)
Em suas andanças sem rumo, Arthur Keats acaba parando em Twin Oaks, um restaurante à beira da estrada, onde conhece Cora Smith. Cora cuida do lugar com seu marido, com quem vive um casamento medíocre. Arthur e Cora acabam envolvendo-se em um romance apaixonado, mas para conseguirem a felicidade deverão dar fim à pedra no caminho - o marido de Cora.
Mayor
O detetive de polícia Dick Tracy deve identificar e prender um serial killer conhecido como Splitface.
Chief Jennings
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
Tom Buckman
Duke se apaixona por Flaxen, na costa de Barbary, na San Francisco da virada do século. Ele perde dinheiro para o tio jogador Tito, volta para casa e aprende a jogar. E retorna. Depois que faz uma fortuna, ele abre seu próprio lugar com Flaxen como a artista.
Doc Scott
Story of a boy and his horse. Mike is the horse and is owned by Speck and his best friend Jimmy, together they have a paper route, on which they deliver papers to customers via a wagon pulled by Mike. Recently a horse track has been built in the area and attracts horse breeder and racer Colonel Whiteny. He takes out a subscription for delivery and meets Mike and Speck & Jimmy. Clever Jimmy talks both the Colonel and Speck into taking on the Colonel's pure bred race horses at the track with comedic results.
Simon Crandall
When Ranger Hoppy's falsely accused young ranger friend is killed while supposedly trying to escape from jail, Hoppy is blamed and drummed out of the Texas Rangers.
Paul Radeaux (Uncredited)
Quando sua irmã mais velha Jacqueline desaparece, Mary Gibson é forçada a deixar sua escola particular e viajar para Nova Iorque para procurar por ela. Ingênua, ela não está completamente certa de como encontrá-la. Eventualmente ela conhece Gregory Ward, marido da irmã e um misterioso psiquiatra, Dr. Louis Judd que afirma saber o paradeiro de Jacqueline. O que ela não percebe é que sua irmã se envolveu com adoradores do diabo que agora querem eliminar-lhe por ter revelado a sua existência.
Marshal Harvey Dorman
A man framed for a series of Wells' Fargo stage robberies and a comical sheriff's deputy join forces to uncover the real robbers, unaware that a U.S. Marshal assigned to the case and the Mayor of the town which is at the center of the robberies, are the leaders of the gang.
Murph, the Cop
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
Brunton
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Elwood (as Bill Halligan)
The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.
Sgt. McNamara
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.
Miller
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
Bob Davis
Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.
Norman Kenly
Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious fires. A mild, timid little fellow named Nero Smith shows up to tip off Henry as to the time and place of the next conflagration. Henry prints the story-and is immediately accused of being the firebug himself!
Detective (Uncredited)
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
"Charlie", Bartender
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
Mr. Bricker, Banker
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
Warden Collins
This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous journalist, also a star quarterback on the town college team, decides to become a convict himself. He gets into the prison, becomes president of the prisoners' union, does his interview, successfully woo's the warden's daughter, and gets out in time to publish his story before anyone else does. His career is off to a tremendous start.
Higgins
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.
Cannonball Blake
Beverly Blake, a 'Loira Cometa', e filha de um fabricante de pneus, fica atrás do volante de um carro de corrida e logo está rasgando as pistas e vencendo corridas na Itália, França e Alemanha (obviamente antes de 1938 esses países não estavam mais participando de corridas internacionais de carros na Europa.) Ela volta a correr nas pistas americanas, conhece Jim Flynn, outro piloto de corrida e cria uma rivalidade, além de um romance. A GRANDE CORRIDA deixando Jim correr com seu carro e ele ganha, sua vitória também significa um triunfo para o carburador de carros de corrida que ele inventou e também para os pneus fabricados por seu pai, o que pode ter sido um revés para a libertação feminina, Apesar.
Tom Hanlon
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Daniel Mason
A couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his veterinarian uncle in a racetrack environment.
Houston
A lawman infiltrates a gang of racketeers.
Mr. Burton (uncredited)
Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. But Janie just can't seem to make up her mind between them. While fantasizing about her futures with each of the men, Janie spends her time desperately trying to juggle between them until she can make a decision.
Police Chief Flynn
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
George B. Lambert
A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to steal it or destroy it.
Dr. James Gerald
A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy.
Ralph Russell
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
Latimer
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
Henry Potter-Potter
When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections.
McCreery's Associate #2 (uncredited)
Dois amigos petroleiros meio malandros, que ao longo de 20 anos se tornam magnatas do petróleo, amam a mesma mulher. Os amigos Big John McMasters e Square John Sand, ambos aventureiros do petróleo, são do tipo falantes, divertidos, que conseguem malandramente equipamentos e capital suficiente para desenvolver os seus próprios campos de petróleo. Mas sua amizade é posta à prova quando Big John fica inadvertidamente apaixonado por Elizabeth, a namorada de longa data de Square John Sand. Eventualmente, sua amizade e parceria chega ao fim num Cara ou Coroa. Anos mais tarde, quando o interesse de Big John pela bela Karen Vanmeer ameaça seu casamento também, Square John intervém em um esforço para salvar o casamento de seu ex-amigo - mesmo que isso signifique arruiná-lo financeiramente.
J.R. Gillespie, Sr.
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
Bartender on Boat
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.
Agua Caliente Bartender (uncredited)
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
Herbert Flint
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
Doc Hayes
Stag Bailey, a slow-witted prizefighter, and his girlfriend, speakeasy hostess Puff Rogers, take over the upbringing of Ted Streaver after his father, Stag's manager, is killed.
Detective (uncredited)
A man tries to hide aboard a moving train after murdering a jewelry magnate.
Terry - Trumpeter
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.
Detective Hickey
The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch just as she starts her famed triple somersault. It only takes the circus manager about fifteen minutes to figure out the obvious suspect was the guilty one.
Story
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
Lyn Austin the Auctioneer
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
Dr. Powers- Medicine Barker
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
Bob Sterling
Ed Wynn, a waiter, tries to get hit employers daughter a start on the stage; Ginger Rogers replaces Ethel Merman when Merman is kidnapped.
Two zany transients get jobs as vendors at a sports arena. One of them accidently knocks out one of the fighters, and must take his place, with his partner acting as referee.