Tom Keene

Tom Keene

Nascimento : 1896-12-30, Rochester, New York, USA

Morte : 1963-08-04

História

Tom Keene (1896–1963) was an American actor known mostly for his roles in B Westerns.

Perfil

Tom Keene

Filmes

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
(archive footage)
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.
Plano 9 do Espaço Sideral
Col. Tom Edwards
Uma dupla de alienígenas que estava irritada com as "estúpidas mentes" do planeta Terra, faz sua base em um cemitério da Califórnia, pois planejavam através do "Plano 9", que se refere a um eletrodo de longa distância que é colocado nas glândulas pineal e pituitária dos mortos, criar um exército de zumbis que marchassem para conquistar as capitais do mundo. O fato de ressuscitarem só três mortos não os desencoraja. Jeff Trent (Gregory Walcott), um piloto de uma linha aérea que vive perto do cemitério precisa salvar Paula (Mona McKinnon), sua mulher, destes seres.
Dois Vigaristas Roubados
Tom Keene
Dois incompetentes foras da lei tentam um último golpe antes de se regenerarem.
Dig That Uranium
Frank Loomis
The boys buy a uranium mine out west, but when they get there they find that it's pretty much worthless. However, the local badmen are distrustful of these new strangers, and when they mistakenly get the impression that the mine is loaded with uranium, they hatch a scheme to get rid of the boys and take over the mine.
Outlaw's Daughter
Bank Manager (uncredited)
Led astray by outlaw leader Jess, the "outlaw's daughter" Kate joins Jess' gang and follows in her dad's footsteps. Town marshal Dan tries his best to reform the girl, but this proves difficult inasmuch as Kate holds Dan responsible for her father's death. Only after most of the bad guys have been decimated by Dan does Kate discover the true identity of her dad's murderer. Having fallen in love with Kate, marshal Dan offers to let her escape prosecution, but she's made of sterner stuff than that.
No Reino das Sombras
Sheriff
A savage story of hate turned love and frenzy turned loose!
Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid
The Tucson Kid
Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s Western that tells of the adventures of the Tucson Kid, who investigates suspicious insurance claims.
Red Planet Mars
Maj. Gen. George Burdette
Husband-and-wife scientists (Peter Graves, Andrea King) pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars.
Em Cada Lar, Um Romance
Abbott (uncredited)
Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. He takes over his uncle's newspaper to take on big business as an enemy of the people. Miss Martin works in the "Herald" newspaper office. When tragedy strikes, Blake must re-examine his views.
Texans Never Cry
Tracy Wyatt
A Texas Ranger tries to bring down counterfeiters selling fake lottery tickets.
The Sun Was Setting
Paul
A woman is dying in her apartment. Two friends visit her and she tells them she wants to go to Chinatown. They convince her not to go, and then leave themselves. Unable to stand her confinement, the woman dies.
Trail of Robin Hood
Tom Keene
Retired actor Jack Holt is raising Christmas trees for sale at a cost which permits every family to have one. A commercial tree company tries to drive Holt out of business. Roy saves the day, of course.
Fury
Sheriff
Desperadoes of the West
Ward Gordon
A group of ranchers, led by Colonel Arnold and Ward Gordon, are drilling an oil well but getting fierce opposition from an unknown gang of outlaws. Eastern promoter J.B."Dude" Dawson, is behind the gang as he is out to prevent the co-op members from striking oil before their lease expires, so he can secure the property for his company. When Ward, with the help of Arnold and his daughter Sally, arranges for a new driller to be brought in, the replacement man is killed and one of Dawson's men takes his place.
Storm Over Wyoming
Tug Caldwell (as Richard Powers)
Dave Saunders and his sidekick Chito, cowhands looking for work, arrive in Sundown Valley, Wyoming just in time to stop sheep ranch foreman Jess Rawlins from lynching cattleman Tug Caldwell. Rawlins seems set on starting a range war; but why? Before Dave and Chito can find out, they must convince Chris Marvin, Rawlins's attractive boss, that he's no good...and get out from under a framed murder charge. - Rod Crawford
Brothers in the Saddle
Nash Prescott
When he thinks his brother has let him down, a cowboy goes bad.
Indian Agent
Monty Hutchins
Honest government agent Dave Taylor sets out to find the men responsible for stealing food supplies from an Indian reservation.
Sangue na lua
Ted Elser
Um estranho chega na cidade para se juntar à um velho amigo, assumindo que é um pistoleiro contratado. Ao perceber a natureza ilícita do negócio ante esse seu amigo e os colonos, que estão sendo usados, os dois procurarão resolver a situação o tanto quanto possível.
Traição
Al
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
Return of the Bad Men
Jim Younger
US Marshall Vance is assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws.
Berlin Express
Major
Robert Ryan leads a group of Allied agents fighting an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Western Heritage
Spade Thorne
A forger has made a copy of a Spanish land grant and Arnold is after it. Arnold and his men attack, shoot the forger, and take the deed while Russ tries unsuccessfully to stop them. Arnold presents it at the recorders office. It appears authentic and he starts evicting ranchers from their land. But Russ knows something is wrong as one of Arnold's men was a man he fought with during the attack.
The Judge Steps Out
Mrs. Winthrop's Attorney (uncredited)
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Wild Horse Mesa
Hod Slack
Dave and Chito are working for Melburn who is looking for wild horses. Olmstead has his men looking for then also. When Dave finds them first, Olmstead buys them from Melburn and then kills him. A clue leads Dave to Olmstead's where he breaks in and finds the murder weapon. When he takes his evidence to the Marshal he learns Olmstead has been murdered and he is the one under arrest.
Dick Tracy Contra o Monstro
Dr. Frankey (uncredited)
Dick Tracy enfrenta um vilão que rouba bancos usando um gás nervoso.
Rancor
Detective
O detetive Finlay encontra evidências de que um ou mais soldados de um grupo de 4 amigos podem estar envolvidos no assassinato do judeu Joseph Samuels. Flashbacks revelam os acontecimentos da noite fatídica através de diferentes pontos de vista. O Sargento Keeley investiga por conta própria e tenta livrar o amigo Mitchell, que tem as evidências apontadas para si. Porém, ambos os detetives começam a perceber o verdadeiro e horroroso motivo para o crime.
Montanhas Perigosas
Dennison
A stagecoach owner goes to jail to catch a holdup gang.
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Steve Bland
Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. The owner has given him the "only" key to the front door. But there are six other keys, and peculiar characters, some of them up to no good, keep turning up as the mystery deepens.
Thunder Mountain
Johnny Blue
Marvin Hayden returns to find his ranch is about to be sold at auction and the Hayden Jorth feud still going strong. Carson wants the Hayden ranch and tries to kill Hayden. When he fails he kills Chick Jorth with a rock. As Hayden does not carry a gun and the two had argued earlier, Hayden is arrested for the murder. With Hayden in jail, his friends Chito, Ginger, and his Lawyer Gardner now go to work to find the murderer.
Dick Tracy em Luta
Fred
Dick Tracy investiga o roubo de uma fortuna em casacos de pele, uma possível fraude no seguro e vários assassinatos, todos ligados a um formidável bandido que usa um gancho no lugar da mão direita.
San Quentin
Hal Schaeffer
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.
Girls of the Big House
Barton Sturgis
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
Dangerous Intruder
Curtis
A female hitchiker is taken in by a family after a horrible car accident. While she recovers, she begins to unravel a murder mystery involving the woman of the house.
Sergeant Mike
Reed
A soldier becomes quite upset when he is transferred from the highly coveted machine-gun unit to the canine corps. He begins to change his opinion when he learns that his army dog Mike was a gift from an eight-year-old whose father was killed in the war. Now the soldier becomes committed to training Mike into the best army dog there ever was.
Lights of Old Santa Fe
Frank Madden
Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers, the Gabby Whittaker and Madden rodeo's are competing for bookings. When Gabby gets a date in Albuquerque, Madden has his man destroy his equipment. Roy finds a broken rawhide rope at the scene and uses it to bring Madden to justice.
San Diego I Love You
Reporter (uncredited)
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
The Port of 40 Thieves
Scott Barton
A widow confesses she murdered her husband and kills two more people before her stepdaughter and an attorney prove her wrong.
Jungle Woman
Joe, the Fingerprint Man
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
The Great Alaskan Mystery
Burger
The obsessive scientist Dr. Miller is working on a matter-transmitter invention called the Paratron; a conspiratorial team of spies and no-goods pursue him to Alaska, trying to steal the device.
The Navy Way
Steve Appleby
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
Arizona Round-Up
Tom Kenyon
Tom Kenyon and his sidekick Pierre La Farge are hired by rancher Mike O'Day who, with his daughters Toni and Sugar, provides wild horses for the government remount station.
Where Trails End
Tom Kenyon
Prince the wonder horse and his gallant rider gallop off to protect hapless ranchers from the ruthless Nazi bad guys who are trying to steal their land so they can exploit the valuable tungsten deposits in this WW II western. Mayhem ensues, but soon the villains are vanquished and America's tungsten deposits are safe once more.
Western Mail
Tom Allen
Working undercover, Allen and sidekick Mendoza are out to stop the mail train robberies. Rivers and his gang are the culprits and by joining up with them, they hope to get the evidence they need.
Lone Star Law Men
Tom Sterling
Outlaws are running wild in a border town. A marshal is sent in to clean it up.
Riding the Sunset Trail
Tom Sterling
Before changing his name to Richard Powers, cowboy hero Tom Keene spent the waning days of his stardom at Monogram, churning out westerns like Riding the Sunset Trail. When ingenue Betty Dawson (Betty Miles) and her kid sister Sugar (Sugar Dawn) are cheated out of their cattle ranch, Tom Sterling (Keene) and his sidekick Mendoza (Frank Yaconelli) vow to get the ranch back for the girls. This requires Sterling to cross six-guns with Pecos Dean (Gene Alcase), a former friend who'd turned bad.
The Driftin' Kid
Tom Sterling / Jim Vernon
In this western, the good-guy battles his bad-guy double and his band of outlaws to protect a purty gal's ranch.
Dynamite Canyon
Tom Evans
In this western, the bad guy kills a rancher and a Texas ranger so that the location of a copper mine will remain a secret. Another ranger goes undercover to catch the outlaw. The killer hires him. His assignment is to create trouble for the late rancher's daughter who has taken over the land. He cons her into to giving him the deed for the ranch. He takes it to the outlaw, but first he stops to warn the other rangers.
Wanderers of the West
Tom Mallory posing as Arizona
In this western, a rancher's son rides out for revenge against the rustlers who killed his father. The pursuit stretches between Montana to Arizona and it becomes more difficult because though the son knows the killer's name, he has never seen his face. Fortunately, the killer doesn't know what the son looks like either.
The Painted Trail
Tom Gray / Pecos Kid
Tom Keene, formerly George Duryea and latterly Richard Powers, made his final starring appearance in the Monogram western The Painted Trail. Keene is cast as a former federal agent who is drawn out of retirement to stem the activities of smugglers Boss (Leroy Mason) and Driscoll (Walter Long). Disguising himself as an outlaw, our hero gains the confidence of the two desperadoes, only to be found out at the least appropriate time. Rest assured that Keene saves the day and manages to march ingenue Ann (Eleanore Stewart) to the altar.
Romance of the Rockies
Dr. Tom Foster
A doctor comes to the aid of local ranchers who are fighting to protect their water rights.
Where Trails Divide
Tom Allen
Tom Allen comes to Rawhide to open a law office. But he becomes the Sheriff instead and goes after Wilson and his outlaw gang hoping his brother Billy is not one of them.
God's Country and the Man
Jim Reid
Cowboy and his friends set out to track down his father's killer. On the way, they discover a vein of gold. The killer finds out about it, and returns to try to take it from them.
Raw Timber
Tom Corbin
Forest Ranger Tom Corbin patrols the lumber grant of the McFarland and Williams Lumber Company, party owned by Dale McFarland. Tom discovers that Bart Williams is systematically cutting excess timber and falsifying his timber reports to the government. Williams is assisted by "Bull" Riley, who, suspecting that Tom has discovered their thievery, gives Tom a beating in an unfair fight.
Drums of Destiny
Capt. Jerry Crawford
In this war film, set in 1817, an American Army captain searches throughout Spanish-ruled Florida for his brother who has been abducted by an evil Don. En route he begins to romance the daughter of the Don.
The Law Commands
Dr. Keith Kenton
Night riders are terrorizing homesteaders, and the town doctor tries to keep the locals from forming a vigilante group. After more towns people are killed, however, the rest of the town makes the doctor the town sheriff and tells him to clean up the gang.
Under Strange Flags
Tom Kenyon
Not quite a western, not quite a historical drama, Under Strange Flags is a little bit of both, and a lot of former RKO Radio cowboy hero Tom Keene. The star is cast as Tom Kenyon, a roving adventurer in Mexico during the Revolution. Hoping to protect the silver mine owned by heroine Dolores De Vargas (Luana Walters), Tom receives unexpected assistance from none other than rebel leader Pancho Villa (Maurice Black).
Rainha de Louisiana
John Colfax
The Louisiana Purchase is imminent and Gilmore is smuggling guns into St. Louis so his men can make him Governor of the new Louisiana Territory. But John Colfax fights to defeat Gilmore.
Battle of Greed
John Storm
When silver is found in Virginia City, Lawyer John Storm leads a group from Indiana west. He soon has to defend them all in court against a company that is after their claims. Fighting a crooked Judge, he gets a mis-trial by telling how much each of the jurors was bribed. Then he gets the Governor to appoint a new Judge. But just as the retrial opens, the Judge learns his daughter has been kidnaped.
A Tentadora
Captain John Carroll
In this drama, a Mexican woman attempts to live a peaceful life in California. Unfortunately, land-grabbers kill her father and begin harassing her. Desperate, she sends an impassioned plea for help to Washington, who sends her is special aide to mediate.
The Glory Trail
Captain John Morgan
It's just after the Civil War and Captain Morgan and his confederate soldiers are establishing a town on the Bozeman trail. Colonel Strong and his union men are at the nearby fort. Things are peaceful until Riley has the Indians attack a union wagon train and leave a confederate sword at the scene.
Desert Gold
Randolph Gale
Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He has also hired mining engineers Gale and Mortimer to locate the mine. When Gale sees Kasedon's cruelty to Moya, he switches sides.
Drift Fence
Jim Travis
Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis, who, at a rodeo, meets city dweller Jim Traft (Benny Baker), who has come west to erect a fence that will prevent Clay Jackson (Stanley Andrews) from continuing his cattle rustling business. A tough Western type, Travis suggests that he impersonate Traft and the building of the fence soon begins. But Travis is opposed by Slinger Dunn (Crabbe) and his family, whose small ranch will suffer from the division of the land. A romance between Travis and Slinger's sister, Paula (Katherine DeMille), paves the way for a meeting of the minds, however, and Slinger switches sides completely upon learning that Travis is a Texas Ranger in disguise. An in-house production (as opposed to Harry Sherman's Hopalong Cassidy Westerns), Drift Fence was the closest Paramount came to a B-Western in the mid-'30s. Zane Grey's original novel was published in 1932.
Timothy's Quest
David Masters
Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with a dislike for children. Timothy eventually wins her over, and also pushes along the romance for her niece, Martha (Eleanore Whitney), with David Masters (Tom Keene).
Hong Kong Nights
Himself
Customs agents track a ring of arms smugglers into Hong Kong.
O Pão Nosso
John Sims
John e Mary são citadinos duramente afetados pela crise financeira da Grande Depressão. Impulsionados pela bravura (e por puro desespero), eles fogem para o campo e, com a ajuda de outros trabalhadores, criam uma comunidade agrícola – uma minissociedade baseada nos ensinamentos de Edward Gallafent.
Cross Fire
Tom "Jack" Allen
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.
Sunset Pass
Jack Rock / Jim Collins
A US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers.
Son of the Border
Tom Owens
An honest rancher, after killing his best friend who's turned outlaw, takes his pal's orphaned younger brother into his own home. The boy, however, isn't aware he's now living with the man responsible for his brother's death. This 1933 RKO B-western, directed by Lloyd Nosler, stars Tom Keene, Lon Chaney Jr., David Durand, Julie Haydon, Edgar Kennedy, Charles King and Al Bridge.
Scarlet River
Tom Baxter
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.
The Cheyenne Kid
Tom Larkin
Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an outlaw with a horse, after a fight Tom rides away on that horse. Arriving in town he is mistaken for the outlaw and offered a job of killing a man. But the man is the father of the girl that Tom's money was to go to but was stolen by the gambler.
Renegades of the West
Tom Bagby
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.
Come on Danger!
Larry Madden - Texas Ranger
Sam Dunning, one of the wealthiest ranchers in the Pecos Valley is found dead with a bullet in his back. Pinned to his body is a note which reads "An eye for an eye, signed Joan Stanton". Danger follows for Larry, a Texas Ranger. Will his sense of chivalry allow him to bring in a woman to face the charge of murder? Along the way, several cowboy tunes and fine locations contribute to the picture's Texican atmosphere.
Beyond the Rockies
Blackjack
A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers.
Ghost Valley
Jerry Long
A cowboy and a beautiful girl inherit a supposedly haunted gold mine.
The Saddle Buster
Montana aka Monty
A rodeo rider can't face the game after he's almost killed by a wild bronco
Partners
Dick Barstow
A rancher is arrested for murdering his young partner's grandfather, but he escapes to try to prove his innocence.
Suicide Fleet
James Keene
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.
Freighters of Destiny
Steve Macey
A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.
Sundown Trail
Buck Sawyer
Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, everything goes to Buck, who is the manager. She does not like Buck, so she makes a deal with the wrong people for cattle and then the outlaws go to the ranch to get the $10,000 from her. But Buck is on the job.
Tol'able David
Alan Kinemon
Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
Pardon My Gun
Ted Duncan
Ted is riding for Pa Martin against Cooper in the big race. When Cooper has his men capture Ted, Peggy overhears them and sets out to free Ted in time for the race.
Night Work
Harvey Vanderman
Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's designated 'Fired Man."; when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired when the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a four-year-old orphan at a cost of ten-dollars a week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn't make ten-dollars a week. But, with the help of Mary, a beautiful young nurse, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life, albeit with some skids along the way.
The Dude Wrangler
Wally McCann
In order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude ranch. Predictable misadventure ensues in this poorly-made early talkie.
Radio Kisses
Marjorie Beebe give advice to the lovelorn service over the air, but she almost fails when she tries to get a man of her own.
Beau Bandit
Bill Howard
Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and his posse. Montero has intentions of robbing the bank owned by skinflint Lucius Perkins, but is sidetracked by the attractions of singing-teacher Helen Wardell. He learns that Perkins has marital designs on Helen and holds the mortgage on her ranch. But Helen is in love with Bill Howard. Perkins offers Montero money to kill his rival.
Honky Tonk
Freddie Gilmore
Nightclub hostess Sophie Leonard educates her daughter Beth abroad and keeps her life secret for her. But suddenly the daughter shows up.
Thunder
Jim
A train operator's obsession with being on time leads to tragedy for his family.
Verdade Que Triunfa
Bob Hathaway
High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings. When a girl is accidentally killed by a stairway collapse, the Girl and Boy go to reform school where they are treated brutally.
Tide of Empire
Dermod D'Arcy
California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
Marked Money
Clyde
Marked Money stars Junior Coghlan as the orphaned son of a seafaring man. His late father has left instructions that The Boy is to be delivered to the home of Captain Fairchild (Bert Woodruff) the father's old sailing master, along with $25,000 in cash to finance the boy's education. The villains aren't interested at all in The Boy, but they do dearly covet the 25 grand he carries with him in a box. (From the Rotten Tomatoes page: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/marked_money/)