Larry J. Blake
Nascimento : 1914-04-24, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Morte : 1982-05-25
História
Larry J. Blake was born in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, New York on April 24, 1914. At the age of 18, his talent at impersonations and dialects grew into a vaudeville act. Blake eventually became a headliner, playing the Orpheum circuit, as well as the Roxy Theatre and the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center.
In 1936, he signed to a contract with Universal studios, and his first job was in the serial Secret Agent X-9 (1937). Right after that, he was chosen for a featured role in James Whale's The Road Back (1937), a sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). He appeared in other films for Universal including a string of 1938 films, Trouble at Midnight (1937), Air Devils (1938), Nurse from Brooklyn (1938), and The Jury's Secret (1938).
With the outbreak of WWII, Blake joined the U.S. Navy serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific. He was mustered out and treated at a Naval hospital for his alcoholism. A Catholic priest helped Blake join Alcoholics Anonymous, and in 1946 he help start the first A.A. group for members of the motion picture industry.
Blake returned to acting in 1946, working steadily in supporting and bit parts throughout the 1950s. He is best known for his roles in Sunset Blvd. (1950) and High Noon (1952). In Sunset Boulevard he played the first finance man who comes to repossess William Holden's car. In High Noon, Blake played Gillis, the owner of the saloon who is punched by Gary Cooper.
As television's popularity began, Blake found plenty of work from westerns, crime dramas to comedies. He was a regular in The Pride of the Family (1953) television series, as well as the recurring part of the friendly jailer in Yancy Derringer (1958).
His last role was as the museum security guard in Time After Time (1979), when he was forced to retire due to emphysema. Until his death in 1982, Blake continued helping others in the A.A. program. (IMDB)
Guard
Londres, 1893. A cidade está em pânico em razão das mortes cometidas por Jack, o Estripador. O escritor H.G. Wells está entusiasmado em mostrar aos seus amigos uma invenção extraordinária, que ainda não foi testada: Uma máquina do tempo. Neste momento chega a polícia dando uma busca no local, pois o perigoso assassino se encontra nas proximidades. Logo descobrem provas comprometedoras de que John Lesley Stevenson, um dos convidados do escritor, é o criminoso, mas ele desapareceu como por encanto. De repente, Wells entende o que aconteceu: Stevenson usou a máquina do tempo para escapar, mas como não tinha a chave, a invenção voltou ao ponto de partida.
Cameron
Um cientista cria um super computador orgânico com inteligência artificial que se torna obcecado por seres humanos e, em particular, pela esposa do criador.
Jailer
A valuable medallion believed to prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times is sought.
Pete
Dexter Riley e seus amigos acidentalmente descobrem um novo produto químico que parece dar temporariamente super-força a quem utilizá-lo.
Police Officer
Quando um ambicioso milionário decide construir um arranha-céu no terreno de uma bondosa senhora, Herbie, o fusquinha com personalidade própria, decide ajudá-la.
Police Commissioner
Após ser acusado de matar sem necessidade um jovem armado, o detetive Lou Torrey é transferido para Los Angeles. Lá prende Armitage, que era procurado por assassinato em Nova York. Torrey recebe a incumbência de levá-lo até lá, mas antes de Armitage ser entregue é morto na frente de detetive, que nada pôde fazer. Torrey gradativamente descobre uma trama de Don Alberto Vescari, um mafioso siciliano que está usando veteranos do Vietnã para se vingar de algo que aconteceu há 42 anos.
Poker Player with Glasses
Sisters Myra and Ellie have finally had enough of their miserable, dead-end lives. When their stepfather Charley (the titular "Bonnie" being long dead) tried to rape Myra, Ellie ventilates him with a shotgun, and the pair run off to their wealthy uncle's mansion in El Paso. From that point on, the two undergo a transformation in their personalities, and start to enjoy living their lives on the wild side.
Water Balloon Game Barker-Operator (uncredited)
Quando o governo britânico suspeita da existência de uma rede mundial de contrabando de diamantes, 007 (Sean Connery) é chamado para investigar. Ele logo descobre a extensão do problema e viaja para a América, onde o milionário proprietário de um cassino é suspeito de estar por trás de tudo. Só que ele é ninguém menos que Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Charles Gray), o arquiinimigo de James Bond, que sabe exatamente o que tem de fazer, principalmente quando as mais poderosas potências nucleares do planeta estão envolvidas.
Prisoner in Compound
Na Oklahoma de 1873, Jed Cooper é confundido com um trapaceiro, linchado e levado à forca. Mas o grupo de justiceiros liderado pelo Capitão Wilson cometeu um erro fatal: Cooper foi deixado vivo, e agora vai cobrar caro por tudo o que sofreu.
First Outspoken Man (uncredited)
Durante a Convenção de 1888, que determina os limites e divisões do território americano, uma família de músicos enfrenta problemas quando seus membros divergem quanto à inclinação política. Ao se mudar para Dakota, um território pró-republicano, a orientação democrata do avô acaba trazendo dificuldades para a família.
Honest Hal (uncredited)
An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.
Police Officer (uncredited)
O gato D.C. aparece em casa com um relógio de pulso no pescoço e um pedido de ajuda nele. Desconfiada, Patti, a dona do felino, fala com o FBI acreditando que o item é de Margaret, sequestrada recentemente. Ela então se junta ao agente Zeke Kelso e seu bichinho de estimação para investigar o caso. .
John Murphy
A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the life of Dutch Schultz.
In this drama, set just after the end of WWII, an American officer falls in love with a German woman. Their blissful affair is disrupted when her German ex-lover returns and tries to exact his jealous revenge upon the Yankee. When the ex-lover shows up dead, the American is blamed.
Hap's Lead Henchman
Desmond plays convict Mike Gilbert, who goes on the lam with fellow prisoners Gruber and Graham when he finds out his wife is divorcing him and feels he has nothing to lose. Gruber intends to get his robbery loot, which his father, Curly, has successfully hidden from the law. After commandeering a plane, they double-cross Graham, who assembles his gang to get revenge - and Gruber's loot. Meanwhile, Gilbert falls in love with Robbie, his ex-wife’s sister. Through Robbie’s influence, Gilbert decides to go straight, but his cohorts aren’t quite so willing to reform.
Auctioneer
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.
Roadblock Sergeant
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
Detective
A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.
Ray Perkins
Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a result, things don't go as smoothly as planned.
Motorcycle cop
Ray Harryhausen apresenta pela primeira vez colorido. Estrelando Hugh Marlowe e Joan Taylor. Atenção! Perigo! Seres alienígenas estão por toda parte atacando o planeta Terra em um dos mais impressionantes filmes clássicos de ficção cientifica de Ray Harryhausen. O Dr. Russell Marvin (Hugh Marlowe) trabalha para a operação Skyhook, um projeto do governo que envia foguetes ao espaço para testar vôos futuros no espaço. Quando os foguetes começam a desaparecer misteriosamente, o Dr. Marvin começa uma investigação, juntamente com a sua mulher e assistente, Carol (Joan Taylor) e descobre que os foguetes têm sido interceptados por um exército de alienígenas que dão um ultimato a humanidade: Lealdade ou morte! Ao passo que os alienígenas começam a atacar cidades, incluindo um inesquecível ataque a Washington, D.C., o Dr. Marvin e sua mulher precisam encontrar uma maneira de parar os invasores antes que seja tarde demais.
Hank Durgis
The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and his daughter attempt to help the stranger, the sheriff investigates the murders; and they uncover a sinister experiment involving two rogue scientists, a car accident victim, his wife and children, and a serum that causes a man to turn into a ravaging werewolf.
Tim
A morte do magnata da mídia Amos Kyne (Robert Warwick) provoca uma disputa de poder nas suas empresas. Ao mesmo tempo, Nova Iorque sofre com os ataques de um serial killer de mulheres. Edward Mobley (Dana Andrews) precisa capturar o assassino, evitar que as empresas Kyne caiam em mãos erradas e ainda tentar salvar seu relacionamento do fim.
Max Harkness (as Larry Blake)
Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vicker, so he can put his old rackets back into the auto factories. Vickers fights him off, ultimately winning help from Linden's attractive daughter Barbara and from Joni Calvin, Vickers' moll.
Healy (uncredited)
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
Connors
A delinquent girl involves an innocent friend in an armed robbery followed by a jail-break and hostage-taking with her equally delinquent boyfriend.
Deputy sheriff
A new parson arrives in the mining town of Lodestone and attempts to build a church. Western.
Reporter #2
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.
Wayne - Waiter (uncredited)
The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff's department, Dial Red "O" (the correct title with the number 0 (zero), as on a telephone dial, shown in ") opens with war-torn veteran Ralph Wyatt getting word that his wife is divorcing him, and he flees the psychiatric ward of the veteran's hospital, wanting to talk to her. His escape touches off an all-out manhunt, led by Lieutenant Andy Flynn of the sheriff's department.
Capt. Biff McGann (uncredited)
Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.
Dave Singer
A New Yorker inherits an old river boat and decides to turn it into a night club while falling in love with Sally Jane, the granddaughter of his worse enemy.
Minetti
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
Mr. Devlin (uncredited)
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.
Police Captain
A gangster and his wife attempt to go straight. Comedy. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
Gillis - Saloon Owner (uncredited)
Para o xerife Will Kane (Gary Cooper), o dia do seu casamento será marcado não pela emoção, mas pela adrenalina e a perseguição com o perigoso bandido Frank Miller. Miller fugiu atrás de vingança, já que Kane o colocou na prisão. Mas, agora, nem a população local irá ajudá-lo.
Police Radio Voice (uncredited) (voice)
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
Walt Williams
A once-famous concert pianist has had her career ruined by her alcoholism. Her husband and a member of Alcoholics Anonymous try to help her recover.
1st Finance Man
Uma estrela veterana do cinema mudo se recusa a aceitar que seu reinado acabou. Então ela contrata um jovem roteirista para ajudá-la a reconquistar o sucesso. O escritor acredita que pode manipular a atriz, mas percebe que está redondamente enganado.
Pete Weiss
A teacher (Dorothy Patrick) weekends at her fiance's (Robert Rockwell) cabin, where a fugitive hides his loot.
Capt. Ed Roberts
A duped bride joins a bookie in love and crime.
Plainclothesman
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.
Louie Perez (as Larry Blake)
A lawyer spooks gangsters by faking a framed singer's electrocution.
Martin (uncredited)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Schultyz (as Larry Blake)
Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for Mimi. But they are ordered by their skipper Muldoon (Ralph Sanford) to remain on board and guard against theft of foodstuffs by a black market gang.
Hollis Smith (as Larry Blake)
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
Police Photographic Technician (uncredited)
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
Det. Sgt. Sharpe
Jewel thieves battle investigators.
Detective Lieutenant Jerry McMullen
In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.
Charles
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
Rick Daniels
When a troupe of showgirls with their impresario and press agent vacation at a Malibu Beach resort, two of them are garroted. Charlie takes on the case assisted by Number Two Son Jimmy and faithful chauffeur Birmingham Brown.
Karl
Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patti fly to his privately-owned remote island and have to crash land. Also on the island is a group of shipwrecked people, including a German professor, his daughter, an English journalist, a wealthy widow, a sailor and a Nazi Agent.
Simon Gillette
Two women private detectives arrive at a dude ranch in time to investigate the murder of their client's philandering husband.
Policeman (Uncredited)
A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
Announcer
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
Truck Driver
A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.
Ben Dawson
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
Interviewer
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.
Silent Sam (as Larry Blake)
A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
John P. 'Horseshoe' Donovan
Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.
Larry Craine
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do it, and sets out to find the real killer and clear his own name.
Trigger Magee
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
Bill Sheldon
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Tony Michaels (as Larry Blake)
Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharged from WWI, Cameron goes into the dairy-farming business, only to be hounded by his chief creditor, flint-hearted banker Everett Benson (Charles Halton). Despite his uncharitable feelings for Benson, Cameron falls in love with Catherine (Catherine Hughes), the banker's daughter.
Weil (as Larry Blake)
Após a Primeira Guerra Mundial, um grupo de ex-soldados alemães tenta se adaptar à vida civil.
Chief FBI Agent Wheeler (as Larry Blake)
A secret agent goes after the gang that stole the crown jewels of a European monarchy.
