Richard Gaines
Nascimento : 1904-07-23, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Morte : 1975-07-21
História
Richard Houston Gaines (July 23, 1904 – July 20, 1975) was an American actor. He appeared in over 75 film and television productions between 1940 and 1962.
State Official (uncredited)
Baseado na história real de Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., um jovem brilhante que não tem paciência para a forma normal de levar a vida e percebe que as pessoas raramente questionam se seus documentos estão em ordem. Ele se torna um fuzileiro naval, um monge, um cirurgião a bordo de um navio de guerra canadense, e um guarda de prisão.
Dean William Brant
Can a couple keep important secrets from Communist spies?
D.A. Reynolds
A Ha-Ha-Haunted House Has Got 'Em! ...and it's every ghost for himself!
Langly
Quando seu filho Andy é sequestrado e mantido para o resgate, David Stannard liquida seus bens para atender a demanda de meio milhão de dólares. Uma observação casual por repórter de jornal Charlie Telfer faz com que ele mudasse de idéia. Apesar dos apelos de sua esposa Edith e irmão e a condenação resultante da imprensa e do público, Stannard vai em um programa de televisão em todo o país, mostra o dinheiro e avisa o seqüestrador que não um centavo será pago para o resgate; em vez disso, o dinheiro será usado para rastrear o sequestrador se Andy não é devolvido ileso. A polícia então encontrar camisa manchada de sangue do rapaz.
Dr. Johannes Albert Schacter
A história de um julgamento de assassinato onde um menino mexicano é acusado da morte de uma menina caucasiana.
Mr. Chisholm
Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in France, knowing there must be something finer than the provincial dead-end she is trapped in. A hitch-hiking writer, the disillusioned Alan Squier, appears and revitalizes her dreams of a better place, and finds his own sense of worth refreshed by this vital young girl. When Duke Mantee and his gang, wanted killers, show up and take hostages, Gabrielle falls in love with the poetic Alan, and Squier begins to see a way to give Gabby the life she deserves.
Paul Hunter
Um relato romanceado da carreira da cantora de jazz Ruth Etting (Doris Day). Era a cantora sensação da Era do Jazz, tinha boa aparência, ambição e uma assombrosa voz de veludo. Mas foi preciso mais do que isso para fazer dela uma estrela. Precisou que Marty "The Gimp" Snyder (James Cagney), o manco, o mal-humorado capo de Chicago, desse um impulso para Ruth conseguir sair dos sujos salões de dança para a fama na Broadway. Mas também transformou sua vida fora dos palcos em um pesadelo de violência e medo. - traduzido de Alex Lapp
Dr. Thomas
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists.
Bill (Robert Cummings), a jet pilot hero from the Korean War, returns home with intentions of marrying his sweetheart, Doris (Marie Wilson.) But Doris has inherited a million dollars and Bill won't marry her because he dreams of a home and babies, with himself as the sole source of income on his $65 a week. Doris has to find a way to make him change his mind. No matter her character name, Marie Wilson was playing her usual "Irma" role, and finds an "Irma" solution.
Prof. Jackson
Four scientists and a newsman crash land on Mars and meet martians who act friendly.
Nagel
Charles Tatum (Kirk Douglas), é um repórter que aceita um emprego num pequeno jornal do Novo México. O trabalho é bastante monótono, até que ele encontra um homem preso numa mina. Ele vislumbra a possibilidade de, ao prolongar a permanência do mineiro dentro dos escombros, a chance de se tornar famoso.
Taylor
After a brief encounter with the romantic and thrice divorced Kenneth Marquis, Corliss Archer decides to write in her diary that they are together in order to make her boyfriend Dexter jealous. Corliss' father had also served as attorney representing Kenneth Marquis' ex-wife during his most recent divorce trial. When Corliss and Dexter don't come home one evening until five in the morning, Corliss decides to pretend to have amnesia to avoid the inevitable punishment awaiting her.
Malcolm Jarvis
Bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job because the company is closing down. Jarvis then makes a strange proposition, saying he intends to commit suicide but wants Sam to make it look like a murder, in order for his wife and son to inherit Jarvis's life insurance. Sam declines, but when he goes to see Jarvis and finds his dead body, he reluctantly goes along with the scheme.
Dist. Atty. John Logan
A lawyer spooks gangsters by faking a framed singer's electrocution.
Sam McNutt
Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage
Whitson, Farley's Executive
When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they're married.
Edgar Burns
Jeff Carter (Donald Curtis) tenta dar um fim à deliqüência juvenil na cidade e cria um clube para garotos. Entretanto, o jovem Danny Jones (Billy Halop) mostra sua influência nos adolescentes locais. Primeiro filme de Marilyn Monroe.
Dennis Thane
O juiz Cass Timberlane se casa com uma garota do lado errado dos trilhos, Virginia Marshland. Um bebê nasce morto e ela se volta cada vez mais para o advogado amigo de Cass ', Bradd Criley. Enquanto discutia, o juiz diz a Virginia para ficar com Bradd, mas quando ela fica doente, ele a traz para casa.
Richard Elsworth
A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.
Colonel George Washington
Inglaterra, 1763. Após ser condenada por um crime, a jovem e bela Abigail Hale concorda, a fim de escapar da forca, em servir catorze anos como escrava na colônia da Virgínia, cujos habitantes começam a ouvir e temer o canto ameaçador dos ameaçadores tambores de guerra que ecoam no vale selvagem do rio Ohio.
Jonathan
Um vigarista tenta chantagear um gangster mexicano. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Cooke
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
McCollum
Numa violenta penitenciária, o prisioneiro Joe Collins planeja se rebelar contra o capitão Munsey, o chefe dos guardas louco pelo poder. Na Penitenciária de Westgate, superlotada, onde a violência e o medo são a regra e o diretor tem menos poder que os guardas e os principais prisioneiros, o prisioneiro menos satisfeito é o duro Joe Collins. Acima de tudo, Joe odeia o capitão Munsey, um pequeno ditador que se vangloria de seu poder absoluto. Após mais uma infração, Joe e seus companheiros de cela como castigo são colocados dentro dos temidos tubos de drenagem; e isso acende o estopim de um esquema de fuga com todas as chances de se transformar em um banho de sangue. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Bauer
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Charles Manning
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Archer
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.
Jeff's Attorney
Rich and beautiful Southern heiress Sally Warren loves horse-racing and running her horse-farm although her husband of seven years hates the four-legged mammals. Spouse Jeff Warren is a successful author, Civil War scholar, and popular lecturer on the ladies club circuit. After Jeff buys aging twelve-year old nag Albert in the mistaken belief that he's a colt and Sally purchases a desk for her husband in the naive belief that it once belonged to Jefferson Davis, it's obvious that they have few interests in common. The squabbling is complicated by Jeff's jealousy of Sally's relationship with Lance Gale, her childhood friend, neighbor, and fellow horse breeder.
Ralph Wainwright
Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes a friend's advice, removes her glasses, and puts on a designer gown. Naturally, she becomes gorgeous. Soon, both Barry and crooner Jimmy Hale are after her, and she finds herself in the midst of triangles and misunderstandings.
Mr. Josephus Ford
Country girl Jane Budden goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Herman Maxim, a struggling inventor.
Police Inspector Dana
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime.
Defense Attorney
When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.
Senator John Pringle
Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced seven years earlier. Each envies the lifestyle of the other; and they decide, without telling Jeff or Mary, to switch families for a day or two. They soon find that it is harder to do what the other person is expected to do, and that looking alike is not enough. When they find that their charade may bring their parents back together, they agree to continue it. A major complication begins when Alice, Jeff's girlfriend and co-worker, finds out the real story.
Frederick 'Freddy' Price
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
James R. Tarlock
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.
Ralph Westcott
Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.
Edward S. Norton Jr.
Uma fria e ambiciosa mulher, encoraja o seu extremamente rico marido a assinar uma apólice de seguros proposta por Walter Neff, um agente de seguros seduzido por ela. Mas enquanto os amantes planeiam o assassinato do marido, eles são vigiados de perto por uma indesejada figura. É uma corrida contra o tempo para executar o crime perfeito.
Waldo Pierson (uncredited)
Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.
Charles J. Pendergast
Washington. Durante a 2ª Guerra Mundial uma jovem, Connie Milligan, aluga metade da sua casa para Benjamin Dingle, um amável senhor. Ele por sua vez aluga metade da sua parte para Joe Carter, um sargento da força aérea. Esta situação resulta em um inocente ménage à trois, na qual Benjamin banca o cupido.
Lingle
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
Patrick Henry
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.