Biography
Charles Brown Middleton (October 3, 1874 – April 22, 1949) was an American stage and film actor. During a film career that began at age 46 and lasted almost 30 years, he appeared in nearly 200 films as well as numerous plays. Sometimes credited as Charles B. Middleton, he is perhaps best remembered for his role as the villainous emperor Ming the Merciless in the three Flash Gordon serials made between 1936 and 1940.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
as (archive footage)
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get...

Dance of the Cookoos
1982
as Commandant
Dance of the Cookoos is merged a cinematic cross section with the high points from almost 100 works of Laurel & Hardy, into an original framework acti...

A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'
1973
as Self (archive footage)
This promotional short film for "Soylent Green" (1973) begins by showing clips of films that depicted what the future might be like beyond Earth. The ...

Purple Death from Outer Space
1966
as Ming the Merciless
Edited version of the 1940 Universal serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe", released in a syndication package to TV in 1966.

Spaceship to the Unknown
1966
as Ming the Merciless (archive footage)
A heavy condensation of the original serial compresses the original thirteen episodes into an efficient 97 minute feature. Disaster seems imminent wh...

The Last Bandit
1949
as Blindfolded Circuit Rider
About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are bei...

The Decision of Christopher Blake
1948
as President in Dream (uncredited)
A young boy begins to have fantasies when he learns his parents are planning to divorce. Director Peter Godfrey's 1948 drama stars Ted Donaldson, Alex...

Jiggs and Maggie in Court
1948
as Mr. Burton, an Attorney
Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bring...

Station West
1948
as Sheriff
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging t...

Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
1948
as Townsman (uncredited)
A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948
as Wrecker (uncredited)
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with proble...

Here Comes Trouble
1948
as Reporter (uncredited)
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.

My Girl Tisa
1948
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in th...

The Pretender
1947
as William the butler
Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is already...

Gunfighters
1947
as Sheriff #1 (uncredited)
Gunfighter "Brazos" Kane lays aside his guns "forever" when he is forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to join another friend, Bob Tyrell, as ...

Welcome Stranger
1947
as Farmer Pinkett (uncredited)
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; b...

The Sea of Grass
1947
as Charley - Saloon Owner (uncredited)
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

The Killers
1946
as Farmer (uncredited)
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Si...

Spook Busters
1946
as Mr. Stiles
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandone...

Strangler of the Swamp
1946
as Ferryman Douglas
A number of swamp land men have died by strangulation and the inhabitants believe that an innocent man they hanged is seeking revenge on all of the ma...

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

Northwest Trail
1945
as Pierre
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold ...

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
1945
as Mr. Jensen
Welcome to Fuller Junction, Wisconsin, a friendly small town settled by Norwegian farmers. Here we see the exploits of two young cousins, Selma and A...

Hollywood and Vine
1945
as Attorney
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted ...

The Town Went Wild
1944
as Sam, Midvale District Attorney
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is ab...

The Desert Hawk
1944
as Koda Bey
Evil Hassan slips back into his native land of Ahad and plots to overthrow his twin bother, Kasim, who has just been crowned the Caliph. Hassan enlist...

Black Arrow
1944
as Tom Whitney
With a plot line mostly lifted from 1941's "White Eagle", Columbia's 24th serial (following "The Desert Hawk-1944" and ahead of 1945's "Brenda Starr, ...

Wagon Wheels West
1943
as Phineas Hook
In this short western, a U.S. marshal seeks vengeance against the man who killed his father.

Crazy House
1943
as Sheriff
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names eva...

Oklahoma Outlaws
1943
as Judge Ringle
In this short western, a gang of outlaws plots to gain control of the town of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Batman
1943
as Ken Colton
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American sc...

Boobs in the Night
1943
Auxiliary home defense workers El and Monte are sent to a spooky house where they come across a mad scientist and his assistant.

The Black Raven
1943
as Sheriff
One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote ...

Spook Louder
1943
as Graves' Valet
The stooges are door-to-door salesman peddling a weight reducing machine, until they come to the house of an eccentric inventor, where they are mistak...

Perils of Nyoka
1942
as Cassib
Professor Campbell's expedition into the hills of Libya obtains a papyrus which might reveal the hiding place of the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates, co...

Men of San Quentin
1942
as Saunderson
A corrupt official at San Quentin tries to frame an innocent guard for several murders within the prison.

The Mystery of Marie Roget
1942
as Curator
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.

Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942
as Claim Jumping Leader
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

Sergeant York
1941
as Mountaineer (uncredited)
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep rel...

Jungle Man
1941
as Rev. James 'Jim' Graham
An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled City of the Dead, and must battle thick jungle, hostile natives, wild animals and a deadly...

Stick to Your Guns
1941
as Long Ben, gambler-saloon owner
Buck Peters arranges for Hoppy, California, Johnny and other cowboys to go to the aid of friends whose cattle are being rustled. Hoppy and California...

Belle Starr
1941
as Carpetbagger
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breakin...

Wild Geese Calling
1941
as Doctor Jed Sloan
In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries dancehall girl Sally, he finds she used to be in love with h...

The Shepherd of the Hills
1941
as Blacksmith (uncredited)
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His...

Western Union
1941
as Stagecoach Rider
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern...

Santa Fe Trail
1940
as Gentry
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assign...

Eyes of the Navy
1940
as Farmer (uncredited)
Produced by MGM in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, this short film follows U.S. naval aviators through their basic training in Florida and advanced tr...

Rangers of Fortune
1940
as Water Thug
An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his youn...

Brigham Young
1940
as Mob Member
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settl...

Gold Rush Maisie
1940
as Camp Owner with a Pig (Uncredited)
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously...

Women in Hiding
1940
as Alice's Father (uncredited)
In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospit...

Island of Doomed Men
1940
as Captain Cort
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
1940
as Jeremiah Walters
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 ...

Shooting High
1940
as Hod Carson
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.

Virginia City
1940
as Jefferson Davis
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confedera...

The Grapes of Wrath
1940
as Leader
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncl...

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
1940
as Emperor Ming
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmos...

Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940
as Tom Lincoln
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his el...
Thou Shalt Not Kill
1939
as Lars Olsen
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)

Gone with the Wind
1939
as Man with Stove Pipe Hat in Charge of Convict Workers (uncredited)
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruc...

Cowboys from Texas
1939
as Kansas Jones
Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay A...

Allegheny Uprising
1939
as Dr. Stoke
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many l...

The Flying Deuces
1939
as Commandant
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the ...

$1,000 a Touchdown
1939
as Stage Manager (uncredited)
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.

Blackmail
1939
as Southern Deputy (uncredited)
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

One Against the World
1939
as Mr. Crumley (uncredited)
This short film presents the story of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, who came under scrutiny for his pioneering of surgical practices.

Way Down South
1939
as Cass
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated...

Wyoming Outlaw
1939
as Luke Parker
Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.

Daredevils of the Red Circle
1939
as 39013
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwa...

Captain Fury
1939
as Mergon
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.

The Oklahoma Kid
1939
as Alec Martin
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money fro...

Jesse James
1939
as Doctor
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Kentucky
1938
as Southerner
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with ...

The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
1938
as Lacey
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up...

Mars Attacks the World
1938
as Ming the Merciless
Feature version of the 1938 film serial FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS. Flash Gordon fights Ming the Merciless once again to ensure the survival of the E...

Dick Tracy Returns
1938
as Pa Stark
Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang, a criminal family led by the vicious Pa Stark.

Flaming Frontiers
1938
as Ace Daggett
Tom Grant has found a rich gold vein and Bart Eaton is after it. Tom's sister Mary heads for the gold fields and Eaton and his men follow. Eaton teams...

Joaquin Murrieta
1938
as Politician (uncredited)
This MGM Historical Mystery short follows the life and exploits of killer outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, in California in the 1850s.

Jezebel
1938
as Officer (uncredited)
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
1938
as Emperor Ming
When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming the Merciless and his new ally Queen Azura.

Flash Gordon: The Deadly Ray From Mars
1938
as Ming the Merciless

Rocket Ship
1938
as Emperor Ming
A heavy condensation of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov visit the planet Mongo ...

The Man Without a Country
1937
as President Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile a...

Stand-In
1937
as Actor Dressed as Abraham Lincoln
An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help f...

The Last Train from Madrid
1937
as Warden (uncredited)
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.

Slave Ship
1937
as Slave Dealer
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
1937
as Gene Autry Sr.
The old west range war story transported to Georgia, with Autry as the hero.

The Good Earth
1937
as Banker (uncredited)
China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the man...

Hollywood Cowboy
1937
as 'Doc' Kramer
Just after Kramer goes to Wyoming to start his protection racket, cowboy actor Jeff Carson finishes a picture and goes camping. Attracted to Joyce But...

Two Gun Law
1937
as Wolf Larson
Hero Bob Larson takes on an impressive triumvirate of villains.

We're on the Jury
1937
as Mr. Martin
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.

Empty Saddles
1936
as Cim White
Buck runs into trouble when he buys a deserted cattle ranch that he turns into a dude ranch.

Career Woman
1936
as Matt Clay
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accus...

Wedding Present
1936
as Turnbull
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great...

Ramona
1936
as American Settler (uncredited)
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by t...

The Texas Rangers
1936
as Lawyer (uncredited)
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.

Jailbreak
1936
as Dan Stone
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.

A Son Comes Home
1936
as Prosecutor
A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer.

Show Boat
1936
as Sheriff Ike Vallon
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

Flash Gordon
1936
as Ming the Merciless
Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to ...

Road Gang
1936
as Grayson
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a priso...

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
as Blacksmith
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.

Song of the Saddle
1936
as Phineas P. Hook
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets...

Sunset of Power
1936
as Neil Brannum
Sunset of Power is regarded as one of Buck Jones' more meritorious Universal westerns. The heavy of the piece, grim-visaged cattle baron Neil Brannum,...

Rose of the Rancho
1936
as Horse Doctor (uncredited)
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of C...

Frisco Kid
1935
as Speaker (uncredited)
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of t...

Special Agent
1935
as State Police Commander (uncredited)
A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster's bookkeeper. When she agrees to testify, an infor...

Steamboat Round the Bend
1935
as Fleety Belle's Father
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hange...

Hop-a-long Cassidy
1935
as Buck Peters
An evil ranch foreman tries to provoke a range war by playing two cattlemen against each other while helping a gang to rustle the cattle. Each cattlem...

Reckless
1935
as District Attorney (uncredited)
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

The Miracle Rider
1935
as Zaroff
In 1930s Texas, following the murder of his father, Tom Morgan joins the Texas Rangers to avenge his father's death and to follow in his path as a pro...

In Spite of Danger
1935
as Mr. Merritt
Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the fast-paced racetrack. Looking for another occupatio...

The Fixer Uppers
1935
as Pierre Gustave
Stan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marriage by making her husband jealous.

Square Shooter
1935
as Miller
Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken from his uncle with a forged will.

Red Morning
1934
as Stanchon
A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.

Behold My Wife!
1934
as Juan Storm Cloud
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the...

Broadway Bill
1934
as Veterinarian (uncredited)
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his j...

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934
as Mr. Bagby
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never be...

Whom the Gods Destroy
1934
as Constable Malcolm (uncredited)
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step int...

Murder at the Vanities
1934
as Homer Boothby
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading la...

The Last Round-up
1934
as Sheriff
Randolph Scott plays Jim Cleve, one of several volunteers keeping the US-Mexican border safe on behalf of American settlers. Ostensibly the hero, Clev...

David Harum
1934
as Deacon
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller...

Massacre
1934
as Sheriff Scatters
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his peopl...

Mr. Skitch
1933
as Joe
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comed...

Lone Cowboy
1933
as U.S. Marshal
Young Scooter O’Neal, orphaned after his father’s suicide, is sent out West to live with family friend Dobe Jones. Unaware of his father’s fate Scoote...

Duck Soup
1933
as Prosecutor
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

White Woman
1933
as Fenton
A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel,...

Big Executive
1933
as Sheriff
Big Executive

The Bowery
1933
as Detective (uncredited)
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was k...

Doctor Bull
1933
as Mr. Upjohn
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regar...

This Day and Age
1933
as District Attorney
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-...

Disgraced!
1933
as District Attorney
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets...

Tomorrow at Seven
1933
as Jerry Simons
People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace".

At Twelve Midnight
1933
as Roger Thurston
A hero in a robbery comes up against a crime boss and the crooked guardian of the girl he loves

Sunset Pass
1933
as Williams
A US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers.

The Three Musketeers
1933
as El Shaitan (voice)
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he trie...

Destination Unknown
1933
as Turk
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.

Pick-up
1933
as Mr. Brewster
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, sh...

The Road Is Open Again
1933
as Abraham Lincoln
A Songwriter falls asleep while writing a song about the NRA. He dreams that Washington, Lincoln and FDR appear in his room asking him why he wants to...

Silver Dollar
1932
as Jenkins
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.

Too Busy to Work
1932
as Chief of Police
A hobo searches the countryside for the daughter he lost when his wife left him...

The Sign of the Cross
1932
as Tyros
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.

Rockabye
1932
as District Attorney (uncredited)
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932
as Train Conductor (uncredited)
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s false...
Breach of Promise
1932
as Joe Pugmire
A pre-Code drama.

Hell's Highway
1932
as Matthew the Hermit
A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.

The Phantom President
1932
as Abe Lincoln (uncredited)
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosse...

Pack Up Your Troubles
1932
as Welfare Association Officer
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man name...

Mystery Ranch
1932
as Henry Steele
Megalomaniacal rancher is a law unto himself, until a Ranger is called-upon to bring him to justice.

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
1932
as Police Capt. Slade
A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.

The Hatchet Man
1932
as Lip Hop Fat
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.

High Pressure
1932
as Mr. Banks
Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors. Finding them is...

Manhattan Parade
1931
as Sheriff Casey
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.

X Marks the Spot
1931
as Kirby
The story begins in 1923 where after an accident, a newspaper reporter needs to raise $5,000 to pay for an operation, otherwise his young sister will ...

Safe in Hell
1931
as Lawyer Jones
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the ...

A House Divided
1931
as Minister
A New England fisherman's second wife prefers his son.

Beau Hunks
1931
as Commandant
Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.

Sob Sister
1931
as City Editor Baker
Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her late...

A Dangerous Affair
1931
as Tupper
Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of...

Palmy Days
1931
as Yolando
Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") where Eddie Cantor, the overworked assistant to a phony psychi...

The Ruling Voice
1931
as Board Member (uncredited)
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.

An American Tragedy
1931
as Attorney Reuben Jephson
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

Caught Plastered
1931
as Sheriff Flint
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.

The Miracle Woman
1931
as Simpson
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blin...

Ships of Hate
1931
as Captain Lash
A cruel sea captain (Charles Middleton) oversees a rough crew.

The Devil's Cabaret
1930
as Mr. Satan (uncredited)
At Satan & Co., Inc., the devil is upset because too many people are going up to Heaven rather than down to Hades. He gives his assistant, Mr. Burns, ...

East Is West
1930
as Dr. Fredericks
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold t...

Way Out West
1930
as Buck Rankin
Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He fal...

Beau Bandit
1930
as Lucius J. Perkins
Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and hi...

Welcome Danger
1929
as John Thorne / The Dragon
A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.

The Far Call
1929
as Kris Larsen
A greedy poacher travels to a small island in the Bering sea to rob a seal rookery. There he falls for the governor's daughter who learns that the poa...
The Bellamy Trial
1929
as District Attorney
The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and Joseph Farnham.