Charles Wagenheim

Charles Wagenheim

Nascimento : 1896-02-21, Newark, New Jersey, USA

Morte : 1979-03-06

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Charles Wagenheim

Filmes

Mad Bull
Panhandler
An embittered professional wrestler, convinced that his life has no meaning outside the ring, meets a beautiful woman. Unlike most of the women he has known, she seems to be interested in him for himself rather than his fame or his money, and he finds himself becoming attracted to her.
Duelo de Gigantes
Freighter
Rico rancheiro contrata um mercenário para caçar um ladrão de cavalos que está ameaçando o fruto do trabalho de sua vida, e sua família. Mas a perseguição, que era pra livrar a região da violência, resulta numa série de eventos brutais e selvagens.
The Baby Maker
Toy Shop Owner (uncredited)
Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the wife's inability to have children. She accepts but finds that knowing the parents, and developing a relationship with them for the entire pregnancy complicates the simple arrangement.
Alô, Dolly!
Pushcart Man (uncredited)
Dolly Levy é uma viúva socialite que trabalha como casamenteira. Ela viaja para Yonkers para encontrar uma parceira para o "meio-milionário" Horace Vandergelder. Dory insentiva os dois funcionário de Vangergelder a viajar para Nova Yorque para procurar garotas onde acaba se metendo em grandes confusões.
A Time for Dying
Milton
Cass Bunning, a farm boy with a talent for shooting, meets up with Nellie, a naive woman from the East, who has been lured West by the promise of a waitressing job which turns out to be in a brothel.
To Die in Paris
Trusty
Beauty and the Beast
Mario
A low-budget re-telling of the classic fairy tale.
O Vento Será Tua Herança
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Numa cidade marcada pela forte presença da comunidade religiosa, professor é preso por ensinar a Teoria da Evolução de Darwin. O caso vai para o tribunal, onde acontece uma série de inflamados debates ideológicos, que mexem com a localidade e com seus habitantes. Baseado em caso real ocorrido em 1925, com os debates entre Clarence Darrow e William Jennings Bryan reconstruidos a partir das transcrições do julgamento real.
O Diário de Anne Frank
Sneaky Thief (uncredited)
Na Holanda ocupada pelos nazistas, Otto Frank e sua família decidiram se esconder, devido às crescentes perseguições contra os judeus. O empresário Kraler e seu assistente Miep preparam um esconderijo nos quartos que ficam em cima de seu local de trabalho, e combinam com os Franks e outra família, os Van Daan, para ficar lá. Mais tarde, a eles se junta o dentista Dussel. Juntos, eles tentam evitar serem detectados, enquanto esperam a Holanda ser libertada pelos Aliados. Por isso, satisfazer as necessidades básicas pode se tornar um desafio, e até mesmo pequenos incidentes poderiam apresentar um sério risco de serem descobertos. Baseado no diário de Anne Frank, e na peça de teatro que foi adaptado a partir dele.
Lonelyhearts
Joe
Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings. Adam feels his readers' pain, and eventually, he takes an assignment to meet with Faye Doyle, who is exasperated by her crippled husband. When Faye tries to seduce Adam, he must choose between his job and his girl.
O Túnel do Amor
Day Motel Man
Isolde Poole (Doris Day) e August "Augie" Poole (Richard Widmark) são incapazes de ter um bebê, depois de anos de tentativas. Eles contratam a Agência de Adoção Rock-A-Bye, e a Srta Novick (Gia Scala) é designada como investigadora. Por conta de um absurdo mal entendido ela fica com uma impressão muito ruim de Augie Poole e o seu relatório será desfavorável. Por circunstâncias ainda mais rebuscadas, Augie é capaz de mudar a ideia da Srta. Novick e então passa a acreditar que o bebê que ela está carregando é dela. Rock-A-Bye encontra um bebê para os Pooles, e Augie está convencido de que o bebê é da Srta Novick, e que ele é o verdadeiro pai. Tanto que sua esposa Isolde passa a acreditar também. Ela corre o risco de deixá-lo, mas todos os mal-entendidos são finalmente esclarecidos por um final feliz.
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
Pete Beasley
A lawman goes undercover in order to capture the outlaws who murdered his wife.
The Book of Acts Series
Crippled Man at the Temple
The Book of Acts is a 10-part series of short Bible films dramatizing the 28 chapters that comprise the Acts of the Apostles. The series was produced in 1957 by Family Films on behalf of Broadman Films, based in Nashville, Tennessee.
O Assassino Anda Solto
Clothing Store Owner (uncredited)
Um desequilibrado criminoso cuja mulher, acidentalmente foi morta por um detetive da polícia durante sua prisão, pretende vingar-se matando a esposa do policial.
O Filho Pródigo
Zubeir
70 A.C. Micah (Edmund Purdom), o filho de Eli (Walter Hampden), fica tão obcecado por Samarra (Lana Turner), uma sacerdotisa pagã, que pega parte da fortuna de seu pai e vai atrás dela, que foi para Damasco. Apesar de desejar muito Samarra ele se recusa a fazer qualquer oferenda aos deuses que ela adora, pois Micah jurou ser fiel apenas para Jeová. Mas Samarra planeja seduzir Micah e fazê-lo abandonar sua fé.
The Unlighted Road
Roy Montana
Young Jeff Latham stops at a roadside diner and ends up working there. After meeting a nice local girl, everything seems to be going his way. Things get complicated when he unwittingly gets involved with criminals working out of the diner.
Sombras da Loucura
Seedy Movie House Patron (uncredited)
A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.
I Beheld His Glory
Eltheas' Friend
Cornelius is a Roman Centurion who, upon orders from the Apostle Thomas, is sent to proclaim the glories of Christ. Cornelius recounts Jesus' Entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper, Crucifixion, and His appearance before Mary Magdalene.
Tangier Incident
Steve Gordon, an American agent posing as a black market operator, is in Tangier on a mission to stop the plans of three atomic-scientists who are there to pool their secrets and sell them in a package to the Communists.
Street Bandits
Gus Betts
A lawyer (Robert Clarke) defends a slot-machine king, and his bride (Penny Edwards) and partner (Ross Ford) don't like it.
Uma Rua Chamada Pecado
Passerby (uncredited)
Blanche vai visitar sua irmã grávida e o marido dela, Stanley, que não gosta dela e começa a forçá-la a falar sobre uma propriedade que sabe que foi deixada para as duas. Aos poucos o clima entre Stanley e Blanche vai ficando cada vez mais pesado.
Conspiração
Telegraph Clerk (uncredited)
Detetive embarca em trem que leva centenas de pessoas para o primeiro discurso de Abraham Lincoln como presidente dos Estados Unidos por suspeitar de conspiração para assassiná-lo. Durante a viagem, evidências parecem confirmar a suspeita.
Terrível Suspeita
Man At Accident
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
A Mulher Sem Nome
Ramon Santez
A secret service agent falls in love with an illegal immigrant.
A Noite de 23 de Maio
Baggage Clerk (uncredited)
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
Motor Patrol
Bud Haynes
A cop poses as a member of a stolen-car ring to capture the men responsible for the murder of his fiancee's brother.
Pier 23
Lefty - Policy Man
Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur sleuth Dennis O'Brien. In Pier 23, O'Brien first tackles the case of a wrestler who has died of a suspicious heart attack after refusing to lose a match. He then agrees to help a priest talk an escaped criminal into returning to prison. The film's two-part structure leads to repetition and predictability, but it's fun to watch TV's "Ward Cleaver" making like Philip Marlowe.
Punhos de Campeão
Hamburger Man (uncredited)
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
I Cheated the Law
Al Markham
An attorney (Tom Conway) learns he was duped into being his gangster murder client's (Steve Brodie) alibi.
A Vida Íntima de uma Mulher
Algerian Piano Player (Uncredited)
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.
A Fera de Kumaon
Panwah's Father
Nas selvas um médico caça um tigre, vicioso comedor de homens, e experimenta uma pessoal mudança atraído pelos costumes e crenças dos nativos. .
The Miracle of the Bells
Mr. Kummer
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.
Os Piratas de Monterey
Juan
A woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part of a movement to overthrow the Spanish in California.
Monsieur Verdoux
Bank Manager's Friend (uncredited)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin) é um assassino em série golpista. Ele casa com senhoras ricas e logo depois as mata para ficar com toda a herança. Esse dinheiro ele usa para sustentar sua verdadeira família, que se encontra em dificuldades financeiras desde que Verdoux se deu mal nos negócios.
Lighthouse
Quimby, Insurance Adjustor
Two men (Don Castle, John Litel) and a woman (June Lang) form a triangle confined by a lighthouse.
The Brute Man
Pawnbroker (uncredited)
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.
Envolto nas Sombras
The Real Fred Foss (uncredited)
Investigador particular Bradford Galt mudou-se para Nova Iorque vindo de San Francisco depois de cumprir uma pena de prisão por culpa de seu parceiro advogado Tony Jardine. Quando ele descobre que alguém o está seguindo, e possivelmente tentando matá-lo, Galt acredita que Jardine está por trás disso. Ele descobre que é um pouco mais do que isso, e está cada vez mais feliz por ter sua atraente nova secretária Kathleen, por várias razões.
O Transviado
Phillips (Uncredited)
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
From This Day Forward
Hoffman
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.
Silêncio nas Trevas
Desk Clerk (uncredited)
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
The House on 92nd Street
Gustav Hausmann
The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.
The Jungle Captive
Fred
Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps a nurse in order to have a female blood donor.
O Mistério do Rádio
Rausch (uncredited)
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
À Noite Sonhamos
Waiter (uncredited)
Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
A Mansão de Frankenstein
Jailer (uncredited)
Um cientista lunático e perigoso foge da prisão e ressuscita Drácula. Seu ato de terror vai mais além, quando ele consegue trazer de volta os monstros Frankenstein e Lobisomem, que estavam congelados e enterrados.
Raiders of Ghost City
Hugo Metzger, alias Abel Rackerby [Chs. 8-9]
During the latter stages of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel (Lionel Atwill), raid all gold shipments destined for Washington from Oro Grande, California. Can they be brought to justice?
Summer Storm
Bit Part (uncredited)
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.
Esta Noite Morrerás
Man at Flophouse (Uncredited)
A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.
Calling Dr. Death
Coroner
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
Mussanti
Don Winslow (titular hero of the serial "Don Winslow of the Navy") is reassigned to the United States Coast Guard, to guard the coast against saboteurs and sneak attacks.
Terra Selvagem
'Dry-Hole'
Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get swindled themselves.
Half Way to Shanghai
Jonathan Peale
A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
Fingers at the Window
Fred F. Bixley
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Quem Com Ferro Fere
Hutch / Hoodlum in Montage
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
They Dare Not Love
Valet
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving. He makes a deal with the Nazis to return in exchange for some Austrian prisoners, but discovers that the Nazis are not to be trusted.
Out of Darkness
Traitorous Assistant Editor (uncredited)
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells of the Nazis' efforts to shut down an underground resistance newspaper in occupied Belgium.
Meet Boston Blackie
The Runt
When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
Dark Streets of Cairo
Dumiel - Captive Jeweller
A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
Sky Murder
Ricoro - Flight Attendant
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
Charlie Chan no Museu de Cera
Willie Fern, museum watchman
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge. The museum also houses a statue of Charlie. Frustrated number-two son kicks statue in rear; oops, number-two son wrong in his assumption
He Stayed for Breakfast
Timid Waiter
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
Buyer Beware
Doctor (uncredited)
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.
Correspondente Estrangeiro
Assassin
Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea) é o correspondente de um jornal de Nova York que viaja para a Europa usando o pseudônimo de Huntley Haverstock, quando a 2ª Guerra Mundial era uma realidade cada vez mais iminente. Inicialmente ele vai para Londres mas logo está em Amsterdã, onde juntamente com várias pessoas testemunha o assassinato de Van Meer (Albert Bassermann), um diplomata holandês. Entretanto, logo ele toma consciência que quem morreu foi um sósia e que Van Meer na verdade foi sequestrado por agentes do inimigo, que querem arrancar do diplomata importantes segredos. Assim sua situação fica desesperadora, pois sua história é em princípio absurda e, além disto, estão querendo matá-lo.
I Love You Again
Malavinksy - Fingerprint Man (uncredited)
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
Sporting Blood
Man at Race Track
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda.
Andy Hardy e a Grã-Fina
Waiter (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.
Conquistadoras da Broadway
Bartell's Assistant
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives.
Know Your Money
Brand the Printer (uncredited)
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.
Jezebel
Customer (uncredited)
Em 1852, em Nova Orleans, uma jovem egocêntrica da aristocracia local provoca o rompimento do seu noivado ao usar um vestido vermelho, quando as moças deviam usar branco. Apesar de seu antigo noivo se casar com outra mulher, ela continua amando-o. Ela tem a grande chance de lhe provar que realmente deixou de ser uma jovem mimada quando uma peste se abate sobre a cidade. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
The Smiling Lieutenant
Arresting Officer (uncredited)
A simple wink, intended by Austrian palace guard Lt. Nikolaus von Preyn for girlfriend, Franzi, is accidentally intercepted -- and misread -- by the visiting Princess Anna. As a result, the soldier has no choice but to marry the royal lady and move with her to the neighboring kingdom of Flausenthurm. His girlfriend follows to continue the romance and, subversively, give Princess Anna tips on how to keep her husband satisfied.
Gentlemen Of The Press
Copy Boy (uncredited)
A newsman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.