Biography
Edward Nugent (February 7, 1904 – January 3, 1995) was an American film actor. Born in 1904 in New York City, Nugent appeared in 81 films between 1928 and 1937. He subsequently had a second acting career on Broadway. Brooklyn USA (1941), the comedy Junior Miss (1942), and See My Lawyer (1939) were some of his best roles. His next career was as a television producer, writer, and director for American Broadcasting Company. As a child, he sang with the Metropolitan Opera. He died in San Antonio, T...
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A Case of Spring Fever
1940
as Golfer
Advertising short for Chevrolet combining live action and animation. The film relates the story of Gilbert Willoughby, who, exasperated by his stubbor...
Island Captives
1937
as Tom Willoughby
A murdered businessman's daughter is shipwrecked on a jungle island with the son of the man who killed her father. Both are threatened by a smuggling ...

Man Of The People
1937
as Edward Spetner
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.

A Man Betrayed
1936
as Frank Powell
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but...

Two Minutes to Play
1936
as Jack Gaines
Martin Granville Jr., a star track-and-field athlete, has intentions of going to Claxton College, but changes his mind when he meets Pat Meredith, a c...

Pigskin Parade
1936
as Sparks
Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a h...

The Big Game
1936
as Drunk
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.

Prison Shadows
1936
as Gene Harris
A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.

Bunker Bean
1936
as Mr. Glab (as Edward Nugent)
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
The Harvester
1936
as Bert Munroe
In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the tow...

Doughnuts and Society
1936
as Jerry Flannagan
Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-famous doughnuts, engage in their favorite pastime, ...

Dancing Feet
1936
as Jimmy Cassidy
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...

Just My Luck
1935
as Vic Dunne
Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his formula for an indestructible rubber, called Durex, will...

Ah, Wilderness!
1935
as Wint
At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from...

Forced Landing
1935
as Jim Redfern (as Eddie Nugent)
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 cac...

Fighting Youth
1935
as Anthony Tonnetti
A radical campus group persuades student Carol Arlington to lead a protest of a college's football team. She manages to recruit Larry Davis, even thou...

The Old Homestead
1935
as Rudy Nash
A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.
Skybound
1935
as Doug Kent
Captain John Kent is a pilot in charge of the border patrol. Two crooks who head up a smuggling operation, Morley and his associate Faber, are trying ...

College Scandal
1935
as Jake Lansing
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Julie attraction from the make students...

Kentucky Blue Streak
1935
as Martin Marion
A nosy reporter (Nugent) befriends the dumb Coughlin and pushes the Governor to commute his sentence. Now, Coughlin can ride his family's pride and jo...

Baby Face Harrington
1935
as Albert
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No....

The Lottery Lover
1935
as Gibbs
A crew of young military-school cadets are enjoying their first weekend in Paris. Frank Harrington, a girl-shy cadet, wins the lottery which "They" ha...

Girl o' My Dreams
1934
as Larry Haines
A conceited college track star, used to being "big man on campus", gets a jolt when he loses an election to see who is the most popular man in the sch...

Lost in the Stratosphere
1934
as Lt. Richard 'Woody' Wood
Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But whe...

A Girl of the Limberlost
1934
as Phillip Ammon
Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she ...
No Ransom
1934
as Eddie Winfield
In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat son....

She Loves Me Not
1934
as Buzz Jones
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.

Handy Andy
1934
A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty y...

This Side of Heaven
1934
as Vance
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.

Beauty for Sale
1933
as Bill Merrick
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of ...

Dance, Girl, Dance
1933
as Joe Pitt
Vaudevillian Joe Pitt sweeps young Sally Patter off of her feet and steals the lovestruck girl away from her small-town family to join his act. She wi...

This Day and Age
1933
as Don Merrick
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-...
Flirting in the Park
1933
as Charlie Jones
A day at the park starts out well when two couples enter a boat race, but things start going south when the boys lose their shirts and one of the girl...

College Humor
1933
as Whistler
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
See You Tonight
1933
as Eddie Norton
A society woman falls for a man she meets on the beach. The man decides to teach her a lesson by masquerading as his butler.

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

42nd Street
1933
as Terry
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
Caliente Love
1933
as George
Poor Walter Catlett messes up the wedding of Joyce Compton and, after botching his suicide attempt, rides along on her honeymoon at Aguas Caliente. Ca...
Easy on the Eyes
1933
as Lt. Bill Decker
A Mack Sennett Talking Comedy, released through Paramount Pictures, starring Franklin Pangborn and featuring Dorothy Granger.

The Past of Mary Holmes
1933
as Flanagan
Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her e...

Men Are Such Fools
1932
as Eddie Martin
An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is...

Crooner
1932
as Henry - Band Member
Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.

The Honor of the Press
1932
as Daniel H. Greely
Cub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and the owner of the paper blames the police for not roundi...

Behind Stone Walls
1932
as Bob Clay
Esther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affair with Jack Keene. Scorned by him Esther kills Jac...

A Fool's Advice
1932
as Steve
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.

Local Boy Makes Good
1931
as Wally Pierce
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, o...

The Star Witness
1931
as Jackie Leeds
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals...

Night Nurse
1931
as Eagan
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small chil...

Up Pops the Devil
1931
as George Kent
The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writi...

Young Sinners
1931
as Bud
The reckless son of a millionaire struggles to find a positive outlook on life, so he turns to a hard-nosed trainer for help.

Shipmates
1931
as What-Ho
A sailor falls in love with the admiral's daughter but finds they can't marry because of his lowly rank.
Crashing Hollywood
1931
Crashing Hollywood is a 1931 Comedy short.

Strangers May Kiss
1931
as 2nd Admirer
After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the advic...

Girls Demand Excitement
1931
as Tommy
Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college weakens under the amorous advances of spoiled sociali...

Three Hollywood Girls
1931
as Bill
Three young girls live together in a one room apartment just scraping by while dreaming of Hollywood stardom. When one refuses a small role because th...

War Nurse
1930
as Frank Stevens
Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.

Remote Control
1930
as Radio Engineer
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.

Bright Lights
1930
as Windy Jones
A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.

Clancy in Wall Street
1930
as Donald MacIntosh
Clancy and MacIntosh are a pair of stock comedy Irish and Scottish plumbers who have been partners for twenty years; but when Clancy accidentally buys...

Loose Ankles
1930
as Andy Martin (as Eddie Nugent)
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the appr...

The Vagabond Lover
1929
as Sport
A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.

Untamed
1929
as Paul (as Edward Nugent)
In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man ...

Our Modern Maidens
1929
as Reg
Young, vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancé Gil a diplomatic appointment. Me...

The Girl in the Show
1929
as Dave Amazon
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decid...

The Duke Steps Out
1929
as Tommy Welles
Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he sees co-ed Susie. The students wonder about his ha...
The Bellamy Trial
1929
as Reporter
The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and Joseph Farnham.

The Flying Fleet
1929
as Midshipman Dizzy (uncredited)
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sic...

A Single Man
1929
as Dickie
Robin Worthington (Lew Cody), a middle-aged man attracted by a young woman, at first avoids her, then falls for her. He undergoes a profound change in...

Our Dancing Daughters
1928
as Freddie
A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold-digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.