Roland Drew

Roland Drew

Рождение : 1900-08-04, Elmhurst, New York, USA

Смерть : 1988-03-17

Профиль

Roland Drew

Фильмы

Кураж в два часа
Steve Maitland
Таксистка Патти Митчелл сбивает внезапно выбежавшего на дорогу мужчину. Выясняется, что у незнакомца все признаки амнезии – он не знает, ни кто он, ни где он находится. Патти решает помочь мужчине. Когда проверка карманов не даёт результата, оба решают обратиться в полицию, но в последнюю минуту им на глаза попадается вечерний выпуск газеты с сообщением о совершенном накануне убийстве и описанием внешности предполагаемого убийцы...
Silent Partner
Harry Keating
A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.
The Contender
Kip Morgan
A truck driver turns to prizefighting with hopes of earning enough cash to send his son to military school. 1944.
Bermuda Mystery
John Best
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.
Принцесса О'Рурк
First Airline Dispatcher (uncredited)
Пилот влюбляется в европейскую принцессу, которая скрывает свой статус во время поездки в США.
The Hard Way
Roland (Uncredited)
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
The Hidden Hand
Walter Channing
Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who uses her insane brother, John Channing, to frighten her other relatives because they are after her money. Further complications arise when another murderer arrives on the scene and plants the blame on John.
Secret Enemies
Fred Blosser - Chauffeur
FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate hunting lodge.
Через океан
Capt. Harkness
Для всего мира Ричард Лилэнд — разжалованный капитан артиллерии, с позором изгнанный из вооруженных сил за казнокрадство. Для узкого круга избранных Рик — тайный агент, пытающийся раскрыть заговор японцев, готовящихся к военным действиям против Америки.
Важная шишка
Faye
«Крутой» парень Дюк Бёрн выходит на свободу после третьего срока и двадцати лет тюрьмы, полный растерянности и страха. Четвертое задержание для него — это пожизненный срок. Он готов начать жизнь заново, но прошлое вновь затягивает его…
Spy Ship
Nils Thorson
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.
Murder in the Big House
Mile-Away Gordon
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
I Was Framed
Gordon Locke
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
Lady Gangster
Carey Wells
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, she is thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners don't have the same ideas.
Bullet Scars
Jake, truck driver henchman
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also taken. Dillon tells Bishop that if Joe dies, he will be killed, but Bishop knows he will be either way. Joe dies, but Nora and Steve conceal it from Dillon and send a plea for help in a prescription that Bishop writes in Latin.
Человек, который пришел к обеду
Reporter (uncredited)
После того как едкий критик Шеридан Уайтсайд ступает на порог провинциального дома бизнесмена Огайо и ломает ему бедро, он со своей свитой становится полноправным владельцем дома.
Dangerously They Live
Dr. Murdock
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
Steel Against the Sky
Weather Man (uncredited)
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
Law of the Tropics
Hotel Clerk
Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. But he receives a telegram from her telling him she has married someone else. He goes to a waterfront café where he meets a singer, Joan Madison, and tells her his troubles. He asks her to marry him and return to the plantation with him using the name of the girl he was to marry. This strikes her as a great idea as she is a wanted fugitive.
Сержант Йорк
Officer (uncredited)
Этот фильм посвящен истории жизни американца, героя первой мировой войны Элвина С. Йорка, захватившего во время боя в одиночку 132 немецких солдата. Это событие произошло во время наступления Мойзе-Аргонн во Франции. После этого подвига простой солдат стал одним из самых любимых героев Америки.
The Smiling Ghost
Hilton Fairchild
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
Мужская сила
Citizen Reporting Power Outage (uncredited)
Работник электростанции Джонни Маршалл помогает своему коллеге встретить дочь, выпущенную из тюрьмы. Ему достаточно взгляда, чтобы понять — эта женщина приносит только несчастья. Однако с Фэй знакомится его лучший друг Хэнк, который делает ей предложение, и попытка Джонни расстроить свадьбу проваливается. А когда Фэй признается ему в любви, он хочет самоустраниться — но поздно.
Bullets for O'Hara
Bradford
A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
Underground
Gestapo
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
Mystery Sea Raider
Navigating Officer
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
Wildcat Bus
Davis
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
The Saint Takes Over
Albert 'Rocky' Weldon aka Rocks
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris. This film focuses on the character of Inspector Henry Farnack. When Farnack is framed by a gang he is investigating, it is up to The Saint to clear his name.
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Prince Barin
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov, this time with ready-made allies waiting: Prince Barin of Arboria and Queen Fria of the frozen northern land of Frigia; where, it so happens, is found polarite, antidote to the plague. But Ming will use all his forces to keep our heroes from thwarting his plans of conquest.
The Invisible Killer
Lt. Jerry Brown
Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweetheart, Detective Lieutenant Jerry Brown, chief of the police Homicide Squad. When the call comes in that there has been a killing at Lefty Ross' place, a notorious gambling joint, Jerry is peeved when Sue beats him there. He discovers that gambler Jimmy Clark was killed as he answered a telephone call, and his body is riddled with bullets but Jerry can't find any weapon. Sue is amazed to see Gloria Cunningham there. Gloria's father is one of the town's leading reformers and she is engaged to District Attorney Richard Sutton. Ross decides to give Sutton all the information he needs and makes an appointment to go to Sutton's home. Once there, Ross is called to the telephone before he can give any information, and is killed in the same mysterious manner as Jimmy Clark.
Hitler - Beast of Berlin
Hans Memling
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation. He convinces his brother-in-law Karl Bach, the brother of his wife Elsa, that Hitler is leading Germany toward a second world war. Karl, in love with Anna, joins the movement, determined to restore German culture and save the people from the brutality of the Storm Troopers and the Gestapo. The group has an inside link through Albert Stalhelm, a Storm Trooper and one of Hitler's Elite Guards. Albert is sickened by the brutalities he sees and wants to resign and flee Germany, but Hans persuades him to remain until they can find a replacement. He agrees, but warns the group that he is forced to join in the Nazi orgies and liquor loosens his tongue...
Mystery of the White Room
Dr. Norman Kennedy
A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
The Last Warning
Paul Gomez
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
The Lady in the Morgue
Sam Taylor
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Some Blondes Are Dangerous
Paul Lewis
"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his ever-loving girlfriend Judy Williams in favor of sexy blonde Rose Whitney.
She Asked for It
Randolph Stettin
Dwight Stanford and his wife, Penny, are a pair of spendthrifts who can't hold on to money, dependent for support on Dwight's rich uncle, who sends them a monthly allowance. Conrad Norris, Dwight's cousin, disapproves of Dwight and Penny, and resents his uncle's generosity. The uncle is the victim of a hit-and-run accident and, there being no will, Conrad, as next of kin, inherits. Switch, the uncle's lawyer, tells Dwight he is shutout with no hope of appeal. Dwight starts writing mystery novels about a fictional detective named Steven Knight, which become instant hits and the money pours in.
The Great Gambini
Stephen Danby
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
From Nine to Nine
Inspector Vernon
Ruth Roland in her last role alongside Roland Drew in a mystery about murder, blackmail and stolen jewels.
Ex-Flame
Umberto
A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not only her house but her young son is taken away from her.
The Love Trader
Tonia
A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain and is thrown suddenly into the romantic, colorful and licentious atmosphere of a South Sea island outpost. With her inhibitions and repressed desires what will be her reaction to the charms of the sensuous of the beautiful tropic nights and the call of love?
The Racketeer
Tony Vaughan
A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
Evangeline
Gabriel
A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forcibly relocated by the British.
Broadway Fever
Eric Byron
Lady Raffles
Warren Blake
Interrupted during a robbery, thief Lady Raffles hides in an adjacent mansion and is mistaken for a maid during a party thrown by Warren Blake, who plans to present his mother with a diamond necklace. Also in attendance are Lillian and Dick, two jewel thieves who recognize Lady Raffles and fear that she is there to rob Warren as well. But sparks fly between Warren and Lady Raffles, despite Dick and Lillian's attempts at sabotage.
Ramona
Felipe
Based on the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of 1884 about a young woman of partial Native American descent, who experiences love and loss in 1800s California.
Fireman, Save My Child
Walter
Two firemen must put up with a variety of travails in their job, especially their chief's spoiled and bratty daughter, who keeps turning in false alarms whenever she needs some heavy lifting done so that she can get the responding firemen to do it.
Fine Manners
Buddy Murphy
The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve.
Fascinating Youth
Randy Furness (as Walter Gross)
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.