Richard Denning

Richard Denning

Nascimento : 1914-03-27, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

Morte : 1998-10-11

História

Richard Denning (March 27, 1914 – October 11, 1998) was an American actor who starred in such movies as Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) and An Affair to Remember (1957), and on radio with Lucille Ball as her husband George Cooper in My Favorite Husband (1948–1951), the forerunner of television's I Love Lucy, for which Denning was replaced by Ball's real-life husband, Desi Arnaz. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Denning, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Richard Denning

Filmes

Mary Stuart, Rainha da Escócia
Francis, King of France
Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.
I Sailed to Tahiti with an All Girl Crew
Commodore
It's silliness on the high seas as two sneaky sailors race across the South Pacific in this fast-paced and campy comedy. The fun begins when one bets the other $20,000 that he, with an all girl crew, be the first to Tahiti in a sailboat race. The other, not to be outdone, has a few monkeyshines up his sleeve and actually wins the race. The beaten bettor then makes the claim, that he can beat the victor to the mainland using a crew comprised of baboons. That is too much to resist for the other and the race is on.
The Movie Orgy
Self (archival footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Alice's Father
Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical.
Nos Domínios do Terror
Jonathan Maulle
O filme reúne três contos de Nathaniel Hawthornes: A Experiência do Dr. Heidigger: Alex Medbourne e Carl Heidigger são amigos e, após uma tempestade, encontram o corpo inalterado da ex-noiva de Carl morta há 38 anos. Eles suspeitam que um líquido misterioso fosse o responsável pela conservação do corpo. Juntos planejam usar o líquido para ressuscitá-la. A Filha de Rappaccini: Em Pádua, o jovem Giovanni Guasconti se apaixona pela bela Beatrice, a filha de Rappaccini, um eminente cientista. Porém, Giovanni só pode vê-la da varanda da sua casa, pois Beatrice não permite que ele vá até seu jardim. A Casa dos Sete Telhados: Na Nova Inglaterra, em 1691, vários inocentes foram executados, acusados de bruxaria. Os responsáveis foram os membros da família Pyncheon, que assim tomaram as terras dos acusados e aumentaram seu poder.
No Greater Love
Dr. George Lund
A dentist and his wife join Christian missionaries for duty in Africa.
Desert Hell
Sgt. Major Pierre Benet
This melodrama tells the tale of a great battle between the French Foreign Legion and the rebellious Arab tribe, the Tuaregs, who fight it out upon the blistering Sahara sands. Just before the Legionnaires embark upon their dangerous mission, the commander discovers that he is being cuckolded by his lieutenant. Because the mission is urgent, there is no time to fight over the commander's wife. Unfortunately, as they travel, the tension between the two mounts and they begin squabbling over how to plan the attack. Their inability to work together results in tragedy.
A Força do Amor
Al Reynolds
Change of pace comedy casts Lana Turner and Jeff Chandler as competing pilots who fall in love.
O Escorpião Negro
Hank Scott
No México, após uma intensa atividade vulcânica, uma fenda se abre no subsolo libertando uma horda de escorpiões gigantes que espalham o terror pelos povoados vizinhos. Para impedir uma tragédia, dois geólogos se unem a uma fazendeira local em busca de uma solução.
Tarde Demais para Esquecer
Kenneth Bradley
Um homem e uma mulher vivem um romance enquanto estão em um cruzeiro que parte da Europa com destino à cidade de Nova York. Apesar de serem noivos de outras pessoas, ambos concordam em se reunir no topo do Empire State Building em seis meses. No entanto, um acidente infeliz a impede de ir ao encontro, e ele teme que ela tenha se casado ou que tenha deixado de amá-lo.
The Buckskin Lady
Dr. Bruce Merritt
Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Angela Medley, who is forced by circumstances to align herself with outlaw Slinger. But Angela has never gotten over her love for honest frontier doctor Bruce Merritt, and at the first opportunity she redeems herself by catching a bullet intended for the doc. Henry Hull delivers the film's most memorable performance as Angela's drunken wretch of a father. Per the title, Buckskin Lady affords the viewer ample opportunity to see Patricia Medina in form-fitting western garb.
Paraíso em Fúria
Duke Bradley
Gangster Zac Cotton and his two henchmen, Mitch and Sonny, try to get a boat to get off a tropical island after a botched robbery heist.
Assignment Redhead
Major Gregory Keen
An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.
Girls in Prison
Rev. Fulton
An inmate is persuaded to take part in a breakout by cellmates anxious to cash in on loot they believe she has hidden.
The Oklahoma Woman
Steve Ward
After six years in jail Steve returns to claim a ranch left him in a will. The town is in the middle of a rough election masterminded by saloon owner Marie. Steve is soon on the side of the opposition candidate and his pretty daughter. The town's tough sheriff is on no-one's side, least of all Steve's
Day the World Ended
Rick
After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll, and a prospector, find temporary shelter in the remote-valley home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter, but soon have to deal with the spread of radioactivity - and its effects on animal life, including humans.
A Cilada
Frank Daniel
Undercover agents investigate a murderer in Chicago.
The Gun That Won the West
'Dakota' Jack Gaines
In the late 1880s, Colonel Carrington and his command are assigned the job of constructing a chain of forts in the Sious Indian territory of Wyoming. Carrington recruits former cavalry scouts Jim Bridger and "Dakota Jack" Gaines to lead the project. Bridger and Gaines are friendly with Sioux chief Red Cloud, and they feel a peace treaty with the Indians can be made. If an Indian-war breaks out, the cavalry is depending on getting a new type of Springfield rifle. Bridger, Gaines and Gaines wife, Maxine, arrive at the fort for the conference. Gaines, in a drunken fit, tries to intimidate the Indians unto signing a treaty. Chied Red Fox threatens war if his territory is invaded by any troops building forts.
O Cadáver Atômico
Dr. Chet Walker
Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police bullets which strike them. A police doctor's investigation of the deaths leads to the discovery of an army of dead criminal musclemen restored to life, remotely controlled by a vengeful former crime boss and a former Nazi scientist, from the latter's laboratory hidden in the suburbs.
The Magnificent Matador
Mark Russell
Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.
Air Strike
Stanley Blair
Tasked with training a group of untested new recruits, a no-nonsense Navy commander faces a host of challenges as he attempts to transform the greenhorns into a squadron of crackerjack jet pilots. Don Haggerty co-stars as the unit's second-in-command who clashes bitterly with the cocky young upstart of the team after the lad shows off with some reckless aerial acrobatics.
Vênus Invade a Terra
Frank Brooks
Quando robôs gigantes chegam do espaço e Chicago fica deserta. Um grupo de sobreviventes tentam encontrar maneiras deter a ameaça, uma vez que as forças militares parecem não surtir efeito.
Battle of Rogue River
Stacey Wyatt
In 1850 Oregon is trying to gain statehood, but a truce is needed with the Indians before it can be accomplished. A new Army commander, Major Archer, is dispatched to bring order and peace to the territory.
O Monstro da Lagoa Negra
Dr. Mark Williams
Na Amazônia brasileira, o pesquisador Carl Maia fotografa o que parece ser a nadadeira de um anfíbio possivelmente extinto. Carl viaja para mostrar sua descoberta e obter apoio financeiro, mas ao retornar com outros pesquisadores, descobre que dois funcionários deles foram mortos. Eles rumam para a Lagoa Negra, onde acham uma misteriosa criatura anfíbia, que pode ser o elo perdido entre duas espécies - uma aquática e outra terrestre.
O Tesouro Perdido do Amazonas
Jerry Russell
At Rio Galdez's remote Brazilian trading post live assorted outcast Americans and Europeans, including Jerry Russell, ex-engineer who became obsessed with the Jivaro headhunters' treasure, quit his job, and took up with the bottle and local girl Maroa. But he still gets letters from his nominal fiancée in California, and unexpectedly the shapely, glamorous Alice Parker arrives, expecting to marry a rich planter. Disillusioned, Alice is almost ready to fall into Rio's arms when news comes that Jerry is missing in Jivaro country.
The Glass Web
Dave Markson
The ice-cold diva Paula ruthlessly exploits the guys she dates. While blackmailing the married Don with a recent one-night-stand, she has a secret affair with Henry, who works as researcher for the weekly authentic TV show "Crime of the Week", which Don writes for. When Henry fails to help her to a role, she insults him deadly... and ends up dead herself. Now Don desperately tries to hide his traces, but Henry sabotages his efforts and suggests he write the unsolved murder case for next week's show...
The 49th Man
Chief Investigator Paul Reagan
Two federal agents do not believe an atomic-bomb threat is just another war game.
Target Hong Kong
Mike Lassiter
Yankee soldiers-of-fortune smash a spy plot aimed at seizing Hong Kong.
O Laço do Carrasco
Lee Kemper
Nesta produção, Scott está maravilhoso, mas seu papel não é de herói, ele é o Major Matt, o líder de um grupo de ex-soldados Confederados. O filme inicia com Matt e seu grupo atacando um carregamento de ouro da União - apesar da guerra ter acabado há um mês. Sabendo que ele e seu pelotão poderiam ser enforcados por assassinato, Matt decide levar alguns reféns. O filme não é tão previsível quanto soa, entretanto a relação de Matt com um dos reféns (Donna Reed) é um pouco diferente. Felizmente, a química interpretativa entre os dois astros, faz a relação deles se destacar na trama. Em termos de ação o filme é fantástico. O Laço do Carrasco é uma pérola do gênero, uma das belas obras da filmografia de Scott.
Anjo Escarlate
Malcolm Bradley
After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's identity.
Okinawa
Lt. Phillips
On the eve of their return to the states, the crew of the U.S.S. Blake is unpleasantly surprised when their new captain, Lt. Commander Hale, announces that they've been reassigned to the upcoming invasion of Okinawa. With the news turning the crew against him, Hale must rise to the occasion to keep his men inline.
Week-End with Father
David "Shorty" Bowen
Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.
Week-End with Father
Don Adams
Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.
Why Men Leave Home
Dr. John Waldron
A housewife, suspecting her husband of having an affair with a younger woman, enlists the help of a make-up artist to become more attractive to him.
Insurance Investigator
Tom Davison
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
Flame Of Stamboul
Larry Wilson
An American agent working undercover as a cafe pianist in Cairo sets out to capture a notorious spy and jewel thief known as "The Voice". Director Ray Nazarro's 1951 drama stars Richard Denning, Lisa Ferraday, Norman Lloyd, George Zucco, Nestor Paiva, Donald Randolph and Dick Elliott.
Double Deal
Buzz Doyle
An oil engineer surrounded by foul play helps an heiress bring in a well.
Harbor of Missing Men
Jim 'Brooklyn' Gannon
A smuggler hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman and his daughter.
Casei-me Com um Morto
Hugh Harkness
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
Disaster
Bill Wyatt
A construction worker wanted by the authorities is vindicated by virtue of his heroism when an airplane crashes into a skyscraper.
Unknown Island
John Fairbanks
Adventure-seeker Ted Osborne has convinced his finacee Carole to finance his expedition to an uncharted South Pacific island supposedly populated with dinosaurs...
Lady at Midnight
Peter Wiggins
A couple's adopted daughter has an inheritance someone else wants.
Caged Fury
Blaney Lewis
Big cats are killing people... after being trained by a twisted lion tamer.
Seven Were Saved
Capt Allen Danton
A nurse is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW II, to the United States in a plane piloted by Richard Denning. The passengers include a Japanese colonel on his way to Manila to face war-crime charges, and a couple who were married on the day they were liberated from a Japanese prison camp. During the flight, the colonel breaks away from his guards, causes the plane to go out of control, and it crashes into the sea. The survivors get into a rubber boat and go through a minor-league version of "Lifeboat, with no Alfred Hitchcock sightings, until Air-Sea Rescue pilot Jim Willis rides to the rescue.
The Fabulous Suzanne
Rex
Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for investing her money. Her stock broker tries to dissuade her, but she persists and her investments increases her wealth.
Beleza Negra
Bill Dixon
Based on Anna Sewell's novel. In rural England of the 1880's, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her to be present when their mare, "Duchess," gives birth. Anne sneaks out to the stable, however, and is discovered by her father who forbids her ever to ride Duchess again. Despite this punishment, he gives Anne Duchess's colt because it is her birthday, and she names him "Black Beauty."
Quiet Please, Murder
Hal McByrne
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
Ice Capades Revue
Jeff Stewart
Promoter Ann Porter decides to start her own Ice Show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart, a rich, suave young Broadwayite, falls in love with Ann and aids her in her fight against Baldwin.
Capitulou Sorrindo
Taylor Henry
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Jackra the Magnificent
A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests, who stand to gain something if she is shown not to be the missing heir.
West Point Widow
Lt. Rhody Graves
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
Os 4 Filhos de Adão
Jack Stoddard
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, Emilie falls in love with Adam. The boys grow up, but Adam insists that Emilie stay on as part of the family. Her relationships with both the boys and Adam become strained after one son marries a gold-digging viper named Hester. Written by Daniel Bubbeo
Love Thy Neighbor
Joe
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.
Legião de Heróis
Constable Thornton
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Golden Gloves
Bill Crane
An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
Queen of the Mob
Charlie Webster
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
The Farmer's Daughter
Dennis Crane
Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town. The crew set up on a family farm, and all is well until the leading man falls for the farmer's daughter, Patience Bingham. When flighty starlet Sheldon finds out he has a new girlfriend, she takes off, leaving North and Trimble to find a new leading lady.
Parole Fixer
Bruce Eaton
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
Emergency Squad
Dan Barton
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
Geronimo
Lt. Larned
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
Television Spy
Dick Randolph
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
Million Dollar Legs
Hunk Jordan
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?
Grand Jury Secrets
Murph
A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.
Undercover Doctor
Frank Oliver
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities.
A Comédia de um Crime
Fred
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
Some Like It Hot
Mr. Weems
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.
Hotel Imperial
(uncredited)
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
Aliança de Aço
Reporter (uncredited)
Sinopse: Cecil B. DeMille nos leva de volta ao ano 1860, então reconstrói a primeira ferrovia intercontinental, a Union Pacific. Um dos últimos feitos do Presidente Lincoln foi autorizar a expansão da Union Pacific para o oeste dos EUA. Um espetáculo real e histórico, que as vezes mescla as aventuras fictícias do inspetor ferroviário (McCrea), a bilheteira (Stanwyck), e o melhor amigo de McCrea, Preston. Infelizmente, Preston une-se a Donlevy, que está empenhado a destruir a ferrovia, em nome de um cartel de políticos corruptos. Durante um ataque indígena, McCrea e Preston lutam lado a lado para salvar Stanwyck, então o inspetor tenta convencer Preston, a tornar-se um homem honesto.
Sudden Money
Johnny Jordan
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
King of Chinatown
Interne
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
Persons in Hiding
Powder, Henchman
During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
Ambush
Police Garage Mechanic
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
Say It in French
Elevator Passenger
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
Illegal Traffic
Silk Patterson
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.
King of Alcatraz
Harry Vay
A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.
Campus Confessions
Buck Hogan
This comical campus romance showcases the fancy footwork of All-American basketball player Hank Luisetti while it tells the story of a dean's son who does his very best to become a good student. When he fails, he turns to playing basketball and befriends Luisetti, which makes him quite popular. This doesn't sit well with the dean, who wants academics to be more important than sports.
Her Jungle Love
Pilot
While searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell and Jimmy Wallace are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island, escaping unharmed with the aid of Tura, a beautiful jungle girl who is the only inhabitant of the island and is believed a goddess by the natives of the adjoining islands. The three are about to leave the island on a make-shift raft when a gang of savage tribesman land, headed by Kuasa, a half-mad potentate who informs them that all whites are his mortal enemies because an Englishwoman once spurned his love and he got his revenge by stealing her daughter, who is Tura.
Lafitte, O Corsário
Captain Reid
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
Uma Nação Em Marcha
Minor Role
A história sobre o desenvolvimento das comunicações entre os Estados Unidos, durante sua rápida expansão no século XIX. A história narra a vida de Ramsey McCay (Joel McCrea), empregado da recém criada associação entre Henry Wells e William Fargo, e de como graças a sua dedicação, a Wells-Fargo chega a converter-se em uma grande empresa de correios e transporte de mercadorias para o Oeste, presente nos maiores acontecimentos de época.
Hold 'Em Navy
Midshipman Jepson
Two football players fight over the same girl.