Onslow Stevens

Onslow Stevens

Nascimento : 1902-03-29, Los Angeles, California, USA

Morte : 1977-01-05

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Onslow Stevens (March 29, 1902 – January 5, 1977) was an American stage, television and film actor. Stevens became involved in performing in 1926 at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where his entire family worked as performers, directors and teachers. His Broadway debut came in Stage Door (1936). He starred over 80 films, at first as the lead actor, but mostly in character roles later in his career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Onslow Stevens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Onslow Stevens

Filmes

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Self (archive footage)
Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker explains how the make-up was done on Chaney's character. Screenwriter Curtis Siodmak took very little from earlier werewolf legends, providing his own story for some of the films. This documentary displays clips from several other movies, including "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "House of Dracula" (1945).
The Couch
Dr. W.L. Janz, M.D.
A psychopath (Grant Williams) calls the police before he kills, in between sessions with his father-figure analyst (Onslow Stevens).
All the Fine Young Cannibals
Joshua Davis
An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.
Lonelyhearts
Mr. Lassiter
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.
Tarawa Beachhead
Gen. Nathan Keller
A soldier is expected to never question the actions of his commanding officer, but when a Marine sees his CO breaking the law, he finds himself facing a difficult dilemma in this provocative war drama.
The Party Crashers
Mr. Nickerson
Troubled teenagers, ineffectual parents, and a climactic tragedy.
Kelly and Me
Walter Van Runkle
Failing vaudeville performer, Len, is taken under the wing of the German Shepherd wonder dog, Kelly, and a new act is born. Len hopes all his dreams are coming true when he finds himself in Hollywood ... but Kelly is the one in demand on the big screen.
Os Dez Mandamentos
Lugal
A épica vida de Moisés, desde recém-nascido, quando foi colocado nas águas em um cesto e acabou sendo adotado por uma princesa egípcia, até quando descobre sua real condição e decide liderar seu povo que, escravizado pelos egípcios, anseia pela liberdade.
Fora da Lei
Chief Agent Alec Conrad
A government agent's son wins respect and love when he challenges counterfeiters.
Honra a um homem mau
Hearn
Jeremy Rodock é um rancheiro durão que arrasa ladrões assim que olha para eles. Recém-saído da Pensilvânia, Steve Miller acha difícil se acostumar com os costumes de Rodock, embora tenha um brilho imediato em sua garota grega Jocasta.
O Código do Diabo
Johnny Achilles
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
Traição Heróica
Col. Ethan Waters
Dr. Allen Seward is assigned to a western cavalry post where his predecessors had been drunks and slackers. The post doesn't take kindly to him either, especially after he disregards regulations and tends to sick Indians on the malaria-infested reservation. The Indians break away from the reservation to move to a healthier higher ground, and when they join with the Comanches to besiege the fort, Seward is branded as a "woodhawk", the bird that turns against its own. Donna Reed is present as the niece of the post commander; Phil Carey is a cavalry captain that believes the only good Indian is a dead Indian, and May Wynn is the white girl raised by the Indians and married to the chief's son.
O Mundo em Perigo
Brig. Gen. Robert O'Brien
Testes nucleares no deserto resultam no crescimento de formigas gigantes que ameaçam o sudoeste dos Estados Unidos , uma equipe de investigadores e o exército procuram uma maneira de controlar a dispersão das formigas.
Fangs of the Wild
Jim Summers
A young boy living at a mountain lodge witnesses a murder, and is then targeted himself by the killer.
A Lion Is in the Streets
Guy Polli
A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?
Investida de Bárbaros
Grover Johnson
A frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.
The San Francisco Story
Capt. Jim Martin
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It isn't until he meets a beautiful San Franciscan (Yvonne De Carlo), that Nelson decides to get involved with bringing law-and-order to the city by the bay!
O Segredo
Judge Williams
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
All That I Have
Attorney Palmer
Dr. Charles Greyson is a famous and wealthy former surgeon. His nephews have taken him to court to challenge his competency, due to his recent inexplicable gifts of large amounts of cash to the church, and, apparently, to some nefarious scam artists. The film is portrayed as a courtroom drama first painting "Dr. Charlie" as incompetent and easily swindled, then telling his side of events and putting them into context. In the courtroom, and by use of flashback, we hear of Dr. Charlies' move away from impersonal contribution on an institutional level, and preferring to express Christian stewardship directly to people who need it, and by helping spread the word of God by donating to Mission fronts who fight fear, anxiety and destitution around the world. We even find the scam artists having turned a new leaf, and creating new lives for themselves. Message being that all that we are we owe to God, and the profits gained from our God-given abilities require care and thought before sharing.
Hills of Utah
Jayda McQueen
A singing doctor (Gene Autry) on horseback heals a feud between cattlemen and copper miners.
Sirocco
Emir Hassan
A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
Lorna Doone
Counsellor Doone
An English farmer leads a village uprising against their corrupt landlords.
O Corsário Maldito
Cmdr. James McLean
A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishingboat realises that it's a U-boat supply ship in disguise, loaded with torpedoes. So, together with his crew and a group of villagers he sets about a plan to blow the ship as well as any U-boats that approach it. Based on the novel "The Gaunt Woman" by Edmund Gilligan.
Revenue Agent
Sam Bellows
Accountant Augustis King discovers that his wife, Marfhe, is having an affair with his boss Sam Bellows. He telephones Internal Revenue Bureau that he can give evidence of a large tax-evasion racket. Before IRS-agent Steve Daniels arrives, King is murdered by a henchman of Bellows and his partner, Ernie Medford. Daniels discovers that Bellows and Medford are smuggling gold bullion from their mine in Mexico, and sell and bank the money under assumed names. they hide the bullion in a compartment welded to the bottom of a car.
One Too Many
Dr. Foster
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.
State Penitentiary
Richard Evans
A man wrongly accused of a crime must decide between getting involved in a prison break, or remaining in jail until his wife can prove his innocence.
Motor Patrol
Lt. Dearborn
A cop poses as a member of a stolen-car ring to capture the men responsible for the murder of his fiancee's brother.
Mark of the Gorilla
Professor Brandt
Nazis dressed to look like Great Apes are looking for gold, and Jungle Jim must stop them.
Red Hot and Blue
Capt. Allen
A Broadway director rescues a starlet from mobsters who blame her for a shooting.
Bomba, the Jungle Boy
George Harland
George Harland and his daughter Pat are photographers who discover a wild boy in the jungle. When Pat becomes lost, Bomba brings her back, overcoming plagues of locusts, forest fires and fierce wild animals.
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Dr. Walters
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland, uses Triton's talent to make money; but Triton's inability to prevent what he foresees, causes him to break up the act and become a hermit. Years later, Triton has new visions and desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family. Can his warnings succeed against suspicion, unbelief, and inexorable fate?
The Gallant Blade
Gen. de la Garance
Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.
Espiões
Igor Braun
A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?
The Creeper
Dr. Jim Borden
Dr. Morgan (Onslow Stevens) and Dr. Cavigny (Ralph Morgan) star as a brace of scientists who return from the West Indies with a potent, phosphorescent serum that allegedly changes human beings into cats.
Eu e o Sr. Satã
Dr. Matt Higgins
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
Paixão Selvagem
Jack Lestrade
O homem de negócios, Logan Stuart (Dana Andrews), está escoltando a noiva de seu amigo, Lucy Overmire (Susan Hayward), de volta para sua casa na distante cidade de Jacksonville, no Oregon. No trajeto de sua dura jornada Lucy se sente atraída por Logan cujo coração parece pertencer a outra pessoa.
O.S.S.
Field
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John Martin as spy Philippe Martine (Alan Ladd) along with Miss Ellen Rogers posing as her college roommate, Madame Elaine Duprez (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Robert Bouchet, Tech Sgt., A.U.S. as Albert Bernardito (Richard Benedict) to acquire secret Nazi plans. After nearly getting caught they succeed and get new identities. However they discover a secret that could change the war and risk their lives to get the information back to London before it jeopardizes their lives. Martine and Duprez then get reassigned to assist fellow spy Frank Schmidt aka Parker (Richard Webb) embedded in the German army so he can relay important Nazi troop movements. Then she is discovered by an old foe, Col. Paul Meister (John Hoyt) but Martine must radio the vital information and misses her.
A Casa do Drácula
Dr. Franz Edelmann
Os veteranos do terror Lon Chaney (Lobisomem) e John Carradine (Drácula) chegam ao laboratório do Dr. Edelman (Onslow Stevens) para implorar uma cura para seus instintos assassinos. Mas apesar da sinceridade do Lobisomem, Dracula na verdade procura apenas se aproximar da enfermeira (Martha O'Driscoll), quem ele pretende convencer a se tornar uma de suas "princesas das trevas". A loucura chega a seu extremo quando o doutor descobre o corpo de Frankenstein e faz tentativas de trazê-lo de volta à vida. Esses fatos são mais do que os moradores da vilas vizinhas podem suportar, levando-os a se unir para impedir as loucuras que ameaçam a segurança de seus familias e moradias.
Hands Across the Border
Brock Danvers
Horse breeders Adams and Brock are vying for the Army contract. When Adams is killed trying to ride his horse Trigger, Roy saves the horse from being shot. He trains him and then plans to ride him in the race to win the contract.
Encontro em Berlim
Rudolph Von Preissing
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
Idaho
Bob Stevens
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
Sunset Serenade
Gregg Jackson
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Songs include "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral," "He's a No Good Son of a Gun," "Sandman Lullaby," "Song of the San Joaquin," and "I'm a Cowboy Rockefeller."
Go West, Young Lady
Tom Hannegan
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
A Bela e o Monstro
J. Stanley McMasters
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
Bob Dunbar
When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the official investigator, but most of the clue gathering is done by amateur sleuths Kirk Pierce and Sally Ambler.
Mystery Sea Raider
Carl Cutler
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Frederick Keller
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
Those High Grey Walls
Dr. Frank Norton
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police.
Noite de Pecado
Holden
Romance and heartbreak walk hand-in-hand when Philip Chagal accidentally meets Helen Lawrence in a restaurant where she is a waitress. Unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness, he is attracted to her and they make a date to go sailing, arriving at Philip's country home just as a storm is breaking. Helen learns who he is for the first time, a celebrated-and-famous concert pianist and, falling in love with him, decides to leave before matters go further. A hurricane hits and their car is crippled by a falling tree. Rising water forces then to seek shelter in the choir loft of a church, where they spend the night.
There Goes the Groom
Dr. Joel Becker
After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering, until he learns about her gold-digging family.
Flight from Glory
Ellis
Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Richard Lane, Douglas Walton, Paul Guilfoyle, Solly Ward, Walter Miller and Rita LaRoy.
You Can't Buy Luck
Joe Baldwin
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
Murder with Pictures
Nate Girard
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...
A Queima Roupa
Mr. Wendi
A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son.
Easy Money
Dan Adams
Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.
F-Man
Mr. Shaw
Johnny Dime has aspiration of becoming a "G-Man" , gums up the work of Rogan, an actual government agent is his pursuit of Public Enemy No. 1. Dimes ambitious goal is to improve his "F" rating to a "G". His sweetheart, Evelyn hopes to not get shot in the process.
Três Sobre a Pista
Pecos Kane
An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be a major outlaw himself.
Yellow Dust
Jack Hanway
After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
The Bridge of Sighs
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Powell
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
Forced Landing
Farraday
In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are trying to locate a hidden cache of loot. Unfortunately, something goes wrong during the trip and the pilots must land the plane in the Arizona desert during a terrible storm. There all of the passengers and crew find cramped accommodations in a lonely farmhouse where murder, mystery and mayhem occur.
The Three Musketeers
Aramis
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Grand Exit
John Grayson
A Stumped insurance company is forced to re-hire the most expensive, most big-headed, but best arson investigator to solve a string of major losses.
Born to Gamble
Dan 'Ace' Cartwright / Henry Mathews
A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family.
A Notorious Gentleman
A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
Life Returns
Dr. John Kendrick
A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently deceased dog.
House of Danger
Don Phillips
To protect a young woman's life, a man pretends to be her injured friend so he can investigate a murder and capture the killers.
I Can't Escape
Steve Nichols, alias Steve Cummings
An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.
In Love with Life
Prof. John Applegate
Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum, and soon finds himself dead broke when publishers show no interest in the dry material he brings to them. He meets a young boy, Laury and his mother, Sharon in the park and is quite taken with them. He gets a job-prospect letter, as a private tutor, and applies at once. His employer is Mr. Morley, a surly, sour, mean-tempered old man who informs John he is to act as a tutor for his grandson, who turns out to be Laury. Sharon, Morleys daughter had eloped against her father's wishes and was abandoned by her husband after Laury's birth.
Affairs of a Gentleman
Lyn Durland
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
The Vanishing Shadow
Stanley Stanfield
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices in his crusade . . . ray guns, robots and a 'vanishing belt.'
I'll Tell the World
Prince Michael
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
I Like it That Way
Harry Rogers
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
The Crosby Case
Francis Scott Graham
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
This Side of Heaven
Walter
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
Bombay Mail
John Hawley
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
Counsellor at Law
John P. Tedesco
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
Only Yesterday
Barnard
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Secret of the Blue Room
Frank Faber
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
Queridinho do Coração
Sir Gerald 'Jerry' Markham
Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.
Nagana
Dr. Roy Stark
A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.
The Golden West
Calvin Brown
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He marries and when his boy is two he and his wife are killed by Indians who take the boy. Twenty years later the boy is now the Indian chief. Betty's daughter is nearby and the two are destined to meet.
Once in a Lifetime
Lawrence Vail
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
Okay, America!
Henchman (uncredited)
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Heroes of the West
Tom Crosby
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath.
Radio Patrol
Carl Hughes
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.