Donald Douglas

Donald Douglas

Nascimento : 1905-08-24, Kinleyside, Scotland, UK

Morte : 1945-12-31

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Donald Douglas (24 August 1905 – 31 December 1945) was a Scottish actor in films and on radio. Douglas appeared in over 100 films from the late 1920s to the 1940s including The Great Gabbo (1929), Life Begins (1932), Men in White (1934), Madame X (1937), Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941), Now, Voyager (1942), Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942), Tall in the Saddle (1944), Murder, My Sweet (1944), Show Business (1944) and Gilda (1946). Douglas was a one-man cast on The Black Castle. He played all roles in each episode and was the announcer. A review of The Black Castle in the trade publication Billboard complimented Douglas's handling of multiple roles in the drama. Bob Francis wrote: "Except for the fact that he is inclined to ham the wizard, making the role often seem more silly than awesome, Douglas puts on a good 15 minutes. His vocal changes are sharp and clear, and his characterizations come over effectively." He also had the title role in John Steele, Adventurer and played Chief Jake Workley in Scattergood Baines. He was also a member of the cast of Kelly's Courthouse. Douglas died on 31 December 1945 in Los Angeles, California, aged 40, after emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Perfil

Donald Douglas

Filmes

Gilda
Thomas Langford
Na Argentina, Johnny Farrell é um jogador de dados que se vê numa situação de roubo e é salvo por Ballin Mundson, um proprietário de um casino. Johnny começa a trabalhar para Ballin como seu braço-direito. A situação muda com a chegada de Gilda, sua amante no passado e que recentemente se casou com Ballin.
The Truth About Murder
Paul Marvin
A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of his wife.
Tokyo Rose
Timothy O'Brien (as Don Douglas)
Lotus Long plays the title role, an American-educated Japanese woman broadcasting enemy propaganda to American troops. Captured GI Pete Sherman (Byron Barr) is one of a group of POWS slated to be interviewed on Tokyo Rose's radio program. Instead of advising his comrades to surrender (as ordered), Sherman uses his innate Yankee knowhow to hoist the treacherous oriental deejay on her own petard. Managing to make his escape, Sherman hooks up with the Japanese Underground, convincing anti-militarist Charlie Otani (Keye Luke) to aid in a kidnapping plot aimed at Tokyo Rose.
Club Havana
Johnny Norton (as Don Douglas)
A doctor answers a suicide call in a Latin nightclub.
Tarzan e as Amazonas
Andres
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
Czarina
Variatinsky (uncredited)
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
Grissly's Millions
Ellison Hayes
An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.
The Strange Mr. Gregory
John Randall (as Don Douglas)
The title character, played by Edmund Lowe, is a famous magician who fakes his own death -- then reappears as his nonexistent twin brother. It's all part of Gregory's master scheme to pin his "murder" on innocent John Randall (Don Douglas), the husband of Ellen (Jean Rogers), the woman Gregory loves.
Até a Vista, Querida
Police Lt. Randall
Philip é contratado por Moose, um trapaceiro de quinta categoria que acaba de sair da prisão. Ele deve encontrar Velma, a ex-namorada de Moose, desaparecida há seis anos. Durante a investigação, o detetive depara-se com uma complexa rede de crimes. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Heavenly Days
Dr. George Gallup
Fibber McGee and Molly innocently get mixed up with the federal government.
Adorável Inimiga
Harolday
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwart the scheming to take the ranch from its rightful owner.
Show Business
Charlie Lucas (as Don Douglas)
Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.
The Falcon Out West
Attorney Steven Hayden
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas, his own kidnapping and near death.
Wintertime
Jay Rogers (uncredited)
Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her uncle to invest in the inn and modernize it. After the hotel opens, Nora's uncle faces financial ruin and her romance hit a snag in the form of pretty reporter.
Behind the Rising Sun
O'Hara
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
Comboio Para o Leste
Lieutenant-Commander (uncredited)
O tenente Joe Rossi é primeiro oficial num Navio da Liberdade em um grande comboio de Halifax para Murmansk. Depois de submarinos alemães atacarem o comboio seu navio se separa e está indo sozinho para Murmansk. Apesar dos ataques de aviões e submarinos alemães ele luta para levar o navio em segurança para Murmansk.
He's My Guy
Kirk (as Don Douglas)
The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.
Quanto Mais, Melhor
FBI Agent Harding
Washington. Durante a 2ª Guerra Mundial uma jovem, Connie Milligan, aluga metade da sua casa para Benjamin Dingle, um amável senhor. Ele por sua vez aluga metade da sua parte para Joe Carter, um sargento da força aérea. Esta situação resulta em um inocente ménage à trois, na qual Benjamin banca o cupido.
Seis Destinos
'Hen 'Henderson (Robinson sequence) (as Don Douglas)
Breves histórias ligadas por um casaco azarado, uma boa oportunidade para ver algumas grandes estrelas no seu auge. A primeira história é um triângulo amoroso com Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, e Thomas Mitchell. O casaco vai para outro proprietário, um conto fantasioso com Henry Fonda, Ginger Rogers, e Cesar Romero. Em seguida é comprado por Elsa Lanchester para seu marido (da vida real), Charles Laughton, dando má sorte ao músico e compositor. Depois ele vai para as mãos de um advogado expulso, Edward G. Robinson, que encontra um colega de classe, George Sanders, em uma muito elegante reunião da faculdade. O casaco é levado por dois bandidos que o perdem e então é encontrado pelos mais pobres dos pobres da comunidade negra na depressão de 1930, interpretados pelo famoso cantor Paul Robeson e a grande Ethel Waters, que vão ao seu pastor, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, para quem o casaco finalmente traz algo de bom.
Little Tokyo, U.S.A.
Hendricks
Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of speculation about prewar Japanese espionage activities. Los Angeles cop Preston Foster suspects that there's dirty work afoot in the city's Japanese community, but no one will believe him except for intrepid girl reporter Brenda Joyce. When the spies frame Foster on a trumped-up murder charge, Joyce does a little detective work herself. The enemy agents are rounded up just before they can do any real damage. Because of its strident insistence that most (if not all) Japanese-American citizens were secretly loyal to the Rising Sun, Little Tokyo USA is seldom seen these days.
Don't Talk
FBI Agent Jack Sampson
This Crime Does Not Pay series entry dramatizes the idea that during wartime, people should not discuss anything related to their work when in public. A casual remark can be overheard by an enemy agent and used to sabotage the war effort. In this short, the story involves shipments of parts to a defense plant.
On the Sunny Side
Mr. George Andrews (as Don Douglas)
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy when his school-friends do the same. But his isn't so happy when things begin to change when his father fore-goes their evening game of Chinese Checkers to play chess with Hugh, and Hugh shows himself to be a formidable scholar, and impresses Don's girlfriend Betty, and becomes more popular with the boys than Don was...and Don is beginning to think that Hugh is too much of a good thing. Don gets downright depressed and decides to run away. Uh, oh, here comes Hugh.
Melody Lane
J. Roy Thomas
In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortune but find themselves in trouble when a radio sponsor finds himself accused of kidnapping a girl. Songs include: "Septimus Winner," "Peaceful Ends the Day," "Cherokee Charlie," "Let's Go to Calicabu," "Swing-a-Bye My Baby," "Changeable Heart," "If It's a Dream Don't Wake Me," "Since the Farmer in the Dell," "Caliacau," and "Listen to the Mockingbird."
The Night of January 16th
Attorney Polk
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner (Nils Asther), Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle (Robert Preston), who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
Mercy Island
Clay Foster
The beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a fun-filled fishing trip that becomes a nightmare when the charter boat is wrecked on an isolated island. Unfortunately, there are very few provisions and the group must fend for themselves. They are eventually assisted by a hermit, but before that one of the group goes insane, and another is eaten by an alligator.
Sargento York
Captain Tillman (uncredited)
Alvin Cullum York (Gary Cooper) vive é um soldado pacifista que terá que deixar suas crenças cristãs de lado para participar do front na Primeira Guerra Mundial. Vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Ator (Gary Cooper) e Melhor Montagem, indicado a outras nove categorias.
A Porta de Ouro
Joe (uncredited)
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
Herdeiro em Apuros
Deputy Commissioner O'Neill
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.
Quem Com Ferro Fere
James 'Jim' Duff (as Don Douglas)
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
The Great Swindle
Bill Farrow
In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a warehouse. The detective does get some good photographs as evidence, but they are stolen from his apartment. He really isn't a great sleuth and winds up accusing everyone but the real culprit of the crime. As a result, he loses his job and must perform the investigation on his own.
A Shot in the Dark
Roger Armstrong
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
Mortos Que Matam
Jed Thomasson
When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
Testemunha Ocular
O detetive particular Michael Shayne tenta o seu melhor para secretamente escoltar a testemunha de julgamento Helen Carlson pelo trem de Denver a São Francisco.
Murder Among Friends
Joe Ellis
A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy.
Cheers for Miss Bishop
Delbert Thompson
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.
Asas nas Trevas
1st Duty Officer
Presunçoso piloto em treinamento deseja se destacar numa unidade aérea da Marinha.
Gallant Sons
Hackberry
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
I Love You Again
Herbert
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
Deadwood Dick
Dick Stanley, aka Deadwood Dick
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
A Fugitive from Justice
Lee Leslie
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
Island of Doomed Men
Department of Justice Official
Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.
Edison, O Mago da Luz
Jordan
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
O Estranho Caso do Dr. Kildare
Mr. Grayson, Patient losing Eye Sight (uncredited)
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
Charlie Chan no Panamá
Captain Lewis
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
Três Horas Trágicas
Philip Wrede
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Forgotten Victory
Mark Carleton
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of Mark Carleton, a worker for the USDA who travels across the world trying to find wheat that farmers can grow despite various disasters.
Fugitive at Large
Stevens
George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because the daring holdup is successful because the gang leader, Tom Farrow, is an exact-double for Storm.
On Dress Parade
Col. Wm. Duncan
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
Smashing the Money Ring
Gordon (uncredited)
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
Sabotage
Joe Grayson
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
A Casa Mal-Assombrada
John Woodford
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
Second Fiddle
Film Director
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
Stronger Than Desire
Mack Clark - Flagg's Investigator (uncredited)
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
The Zero Hour
Stewart Brewster
A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Ship's Officer - Fight Referee
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
Within the Law
Inspector Burke
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
Fast and Loose
Forbes
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
Asas da Esquadra
Officer of the Day
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
Jesse James
Infantry Captain (uncredited)
Jesse James e seu irmão Frank juram vingar a morte da mãe, morta por um representante da companhia ferroviária de Saint Louis. Eles começam a carreira criminosa roubando os passageiros dos trens, mas logo expandem suas atividades cometendo assalto a bancos.
The Mysterious Miss X
Clarence Fredericks
After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.
Pacific Liner
Ship's Officer (uncredited)
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
Law of the Texan
Chet Hackett
Ore shipments are being stolen and the Rangers send Buck and his men to guard the next shipment. When that is stolen also, Buck is kicked out of the Rangers.
The Spider's Web
Jenkins (the butler)
Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.
Sacrifício de Irmã
District Attorney
A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.
Smashing the Rackets
Harry Spaulding
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
The Crowd Roars
Murray
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
Fast Company
Lt. James Flanner
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
Come Across
Special Agent Thomas
A bank robber pulls off a heist and comes out with a good haul. However, he winds up being forced to give most of it to his gangland "friends" to hide him from the police, and who now turn their backs on him when his money runs out.
Amor de Criança
J.J. Harper (uncredited)
Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.
Special Inspector
Williams
U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper's trucks and sells the loot in the United States.
Headin' East
Eric Ward
A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking their produce shipments.
Navy Blue and Gold
Lt. North (uncredited)
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
Madame X
Mr. Edison
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
The Love Department
Gooper Goopalowski (uncredited)
In this musical short, a love columnist can't find her own love connection.
Sequoia
Forest Ranger (uncredited)
A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
Tomorrow's Children
Dr. Brooks
Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue breeding, and her siblings are disabled, have mental problems or are imprisoned—she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't be passed on to any further. Her boyfriend Jim and a kindly priest search desperately for a way to stop the forced surgery before it's too late.
Alma de Médico
Mac
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important than attending a cocktail party. He soon drifts into an affair with a pretty nurse who shares his passion for healing.
Lazy River
Officer
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
A Woman's Man
Walter Payson - Horseback Rider
A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling with an ambitious, publicity-hungry prizefighter.
He Couldn't Take It
Oakley
Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes a criminal conspiracy while trying to stop his long-suffering girlfriend from taking a vacation with her lecherous boss.
Murder In The Pullman
Vincent Lynch
Noted team of detective and criminologist solve the murder of a new bride, in her compartment, on the train on which they are travelling.
The Great Gabbo
Frank
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.