Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James Burke (September 24, 1886 – May 23, 1968) was an American film and television actor born in New York City. He made his stage debut in New York around 1912 and went to Hollywood in 1933. He made over 200 film appearances during his career, which ranged from 1932 to 1964; he was more often than not cast as a cop, usually a none-too-bright one, most notably as Sgt. Velie in Columbia's Ellery Queen mysteries in the early 1940s. He appeared in The Maltese ...
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Complete Filmography

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
as Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Alias Jesse James
1959
as Charlie (uncredited)
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent t...

The Unholy Wife
1957
as Sheriff Tom Watling
A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off with her lover. Things go wrong when they accident...

Public Pigeon No. 1
1957
as Harrigan
Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.

Lucky Me
1954
as Mahoney
Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promi...

Lone Star
1952
as Luther Kilgore
Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam ...

Toughest Man in Arizona
1952
Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring ...

We're Not Married!
1952
as Willie's Sergeant (uncredited)
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally m...

Denver and Rio Grande
1952
as Sheriff Ed Johnson
Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sab...

Warpath
1951
as Oldtimer
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but ...

Here Comes the Groom
1951
as O'Neill, Policeman
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.

His Kind of Woman
1951
as Barkeeper in Nogales (uncredited)
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resor...

Raton Pass
1951
as Hank
Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife,...

The Last Outpost
1951
as Stagecoach driver (uncredited)
The cavalry defend a small town from indians.

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
1950
as The Train Conductor
Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.

Let's Dance
1950
as George (uncredited)
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and joble...

Copper Canyon
1950
as Jeb Bassett
A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny...

Red, Hot and Blue
1949
as Doorman (uncredited)
In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob.

Alias Nick Beal
1949
as Bum
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking ...

Shamrock Hill
1949
as Michael Rogan
A young girl holds a special place in her heart for a place called Shamrock HIll, and she tries to stop it from having a television station built on i...

June Bride
1948
as Luke Potter
A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.

Night Wind
1948
as Sheriff Hamilton
A boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it begins attacking strangers several years after the war.

Beyond Glory
1948
as Jim, the Bartender (uncredited)
Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls f...

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948
as Cop (uncredited)
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and ...

The Timber Trail
1948
as Jed Baker
Monte Hale is a stagecoach driver for Jed Baker's stage-line. Jed believes his brother, Ralph, is behind the many hold-ups of his stagecoaches but has...

The Big Clock
1948
as O'Brien
Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned b...

Body and Soul
1947
as Arnold (uncredited)
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, in...

Nightmare Alley
1947
as Rural Marshal (uncredited)
Roustabout Stanton Carlisle joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoho...

Song of the Thin Man
1947
as Policeman Callahan (uncredited)
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
1947
as Police Lt. Burke
The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.

Down to Earth
1947
as Detective Kelly
Upset at a new Broadway musical mocking The Nine Muses, Greek goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth to land a part in the show and change it.

Philo Vance's Gamble
1947
as Lt. Burke
Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been smuggl...

Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
as Harry Weston
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.

California
1947
as Pokey
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Jo...

Two Years Before the Mast
1946
as Carrick
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ship...

Bowery Bombshell
1946
as Detective O'Malley
Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidate...

The Virginian
1946
as Andy Jones (uncredited)
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot...

Young Widow
1946
as Motorcycle Cop (Uncredited)
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.

How DOooo You Do
1945
as Detective
Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.

I Love a Bandleader
1945
as Charles Gibley
A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds romance with a pretty singer. Comedy with music.

Shady Lady
1945
as Crane
A crook becomes the victim of a crafty card player who works for the District Attorney.

Anchors Aweigh
1945
as Studio Cop
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew...

The Horn Blows at Midnight
1945
as Policeman (uncredited)
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactl...

Casanova Brown
1944
as O'Leary (uncredited)
Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, C...

3 Men in White
1944
as First Policeman (uncredited)
Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis competi...

Riding High
1943
as Pete
No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and...

Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
as Bill, Intern Guard (uncredited)
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

Dixie
1943
as Riverboat Captain (uncredited)
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music ...

No Place for a Lady
1943
as Police Substation Chief Moriarty
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it...

A Night to Remember
1942
as Pat Murphy (uncredited)
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to creat...

Army Surgeon
1942
as Brooklyn
Drama about military doctors and nurses during wartime.

Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
1942
as Police Sergeant Velie
Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.

It Happened in Flatbush
1942
as Umpire Shaunnessy
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.

A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
1942
as Sgt. Velie
A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

My Favorite Blonde
1942
as Union Secretary
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded...

A Close Call for Ellery Queen
1942
as Sgt. Velie
Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.

All Through the Night
1942
as Police Lt. Forbes
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
1941
as Sgt. Velie
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by ...

The Maltese Falcon
1941
as Luke
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
1941
as Sgt. Velie
Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to...

Million Dollar Baby
1941
as Callahan
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.

Reaching for the Sun
1941
as Norm
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.

Pot o' Gold
1941
as Lt. Grady
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family ...

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
1941
as Sgt. Velie
Ventriloquist and world traveler Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son,...

Ellery Queen, Master Detective
1940
as Sgt. Velle
Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.

Little Nellie Kelly
1940
as Sergeant McGowan
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway...

No Time for Comedy
1940
as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

The Golden Fleecing
1940
as Sibley
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

The Way of All Flesh
1940
as Frisco
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver so...

The Saint Takes Over
1940
as Patrolman Mike
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...

Buck Benny Rides Again
1940
as Taxi Driver
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing ...

Opened by Mistake
1940
as Police Sergeant Wilkins
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
1940
as Wilkie, house detective
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a ...

Double Alibi
1940
as Police Captain Orr
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

The Cisco Kid and the Lady
1939
as Pop Saunders
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.

At the Circus
1939
as John Carter
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take ov...

Fast and Furious
1939
as Clancy
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, ...

Beau Geste
1939
as Lieutenant Dufour
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in t...

On Borrowed Time
1939
as Sheriff Burlingame
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future...

Dodge City
1939
as Cattle Auctioneer (uncredited)
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

I'm from Missouri
1939
as Walt Bliss
Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to bu...

Sudden Money
1939
as McPherson
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $15...

The Family Next Door
1939
as Policeman
Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her sm...

Within the Law
1939
as 'Red'
Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful wa...

The Saint Strikes Back
1939
as Headquarters Police Officer
Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after b...

The Dawn Patrol
1938
as Flaherty - Motorcycle Driver
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty r...
Little Orphan Annie
1938
as Mike Moriarty
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a...

The Mad Miss Manton
1938
as Sullivan
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves t...

The Affairs of Annabel
1938
as Muldoon
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for pu...

You Can't Take It with You
1938
as Chief Detective (uncredited)
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish m...

Men with Wings
1938
as J.A. Nolan
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. ...

Joy of Living
1938
as Mac
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic...

Flight Into Nowhere
1938
as Ike Matthews
When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing fields in uncharted Latin American country, he en...

The Perfect Specimen
1937
as Constable Snodgrass
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wish...

Life Begins with Love
1937
as Darby McGraw
A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He d...

Dead End
1937
as Police Officer Mulligan
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his...

High, Wide and Handsome
1937
as Stackpole
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when the...

Champagne Waltz
1937
as Mr. Scribner
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss a...

Laughing at Trouble
1936
as Bill Norton
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the re...

Great Guy
1936
as Patrick James Aloysius 'Pat' Haley
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.

Can This Be Dixie?
1936
as Sheriff N.B.F. Rider
A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.

36 Hours to Kill
1936
as Doyle - Process Server
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 i...

Rhythm on the Range
1936
as Wabash
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner o...

Forgotten Faces
1936
as Sgt. Johnny Donovan / Harry's friend
Harry Ashton is a superstitious gambling house owner, who relies on sprigs of heliotrope as his good luck charm. One day, Harry catches his wife, Cleo...

Song and Dance Man
1936
as Lt. Mike Boyle
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.

Klondike Annie
1936
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.

The Leathernecks Have Landed
1936
as Corrigan
Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody" Da...

Dancing Feet
1936
as Phil Moore
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfath...

So Red the Rose
1935
as Major Rushton
During the American Civil War, Valette Bedford waits patiently for her husband Duncan Bedford, to return home, praying that she will not become a wido...

Frisco Waterfront
1935
as Corrigan
As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponen...

Coronado
1935
as Slug Moran
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San...
Hot Money
1935
as Police Sgt. Burke
A thief on the run dumps some hot money in Thelma and Patsy's lap.

Music Is Magic
1935
as Mickey (uncredited)
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

Case of the Missing Man
1935
as Police Sergeant Rorty
After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job and takes up free-lancing as a street-photographer f...

The Affair of Susan
1935
as Hogan
Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.

Here Comes Cookie
1935
as Broken-Nose Reilly
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to ...

Welcome Home
1935
as Michael Shaughnessy
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build...

Call of the Wild
1935
as Ole
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck...

Man on the Flying Trapeze
1935
as Patrolman
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.

Broadway Gondolier
1935
as Uncle Andy
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

Make a Million
1935
as Pete
A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice, he finds that they a...

The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
as Man Hauling Rifles and Bullets
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

After the Dance
1935
as Police Lieutenant
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis...

Dinky
1935
as Truck Driver
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

Mississippi
1935
as Skeptical Passenger in Pilot House (uncredited)
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, ac...

Ruggles of Red Gap
1935
as Jeff Tuttle
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a...

The Mystery Man
1935
as Managing Editor Marvin
Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating a work bonus and wakes up on a train bound for St. Lou...

Ticket to a Crime
1934
as Detective Lt. John Aloysius McGinnis
After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the p...

Love Time
1934
as Emperor Francis I
Newly arrived in the nineteenth century court of Emperor Francis 1st of Austria Countess Valerie happens to overhear a young pianist and advises him t...

Lady by Choice
1934
as Brannigan
To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.

Treasure Island
1934
as Pirate of the Spanish Main
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in searc...

Friends of Mr. Sweeney
1934
as Policeman Arresting Wynn
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten dow...

Such Women Are Dangerous
1934
as Detective
An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly threatene...

Little Miss Marker
1934
as Detective Reardon (uncredited)
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especia...

The Merry Frinks
1934
as 3rd Expressman (uncredited)
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.

Twentieth Century
1934
as Sheriff (uncredited)
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

The Scarlet Empress
1934
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Gran...

Sadie McKee
1934
as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.

A Very Honorable Guy
1934
as Sergeant
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to se...

City Limits
1934
as King, a Hobo
The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up ...

Wharf Angel
1934
as Brooklyn Jack
On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar. When Como Murphy, a fugitive from the law, hides ...

Gambling Lady
1934
as Detective Making Raid (uncredited)
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks ou...

It Happened One Night
1934
as Detective (uncredited)
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them be...

Six of a Kind
1934
as Detective (uncredited)
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand ...

All of Me
1934
as Welfare Island Guard (uncredited)
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.

Queen Christina
1933
as Blacksmith - 4th Rabble Rouser (uncredited)
Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.

Lady Killer
1933
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.

The Kennel Murder Case
1933
as Policeman Who Lets Dog Out (uncredited)
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broke...

Bombshell
1933
as First Immigration Officer (uncredited)
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

To the Last Man
1933
as Kentucky Sheriff (uncredited)
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Neva...

Torch Singer
1933
as Taxi Driver
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, ...

College Humor
1933
as Cromwell Dexter
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.

The Girl in 419
1933
as Detective Jackson
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.

A Lady's Profession
1933
as Mulroy
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.

Face in the Sky
1933
as Cop (uncredited)
Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side. The meet Madge, who is cruelly treated by a her f...
The Hollywood Handicap
1932
1930s Thalians Club comedy.