Complete Filmography

Desert Pursuit
1952
Screenplay
In 1852, two friends left the Nevada prospector region to relocate from en route he meets the beautiful Marie who decides to make a trek with two frie...

Meet Me After the Show
1951
Story
A Broadway star devises a scheme to win back her husband when she suspects he's being unfaithful.

According to Mrs. Hoyle
1951
Screenplay
A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.

Blue Blood
1951
Screenplay
An out of work racehorse trainer is adopted by the daughters of a wealthy breeder and trains a cast-off horse for the big race of the season.
County Fair
1950
Writer
"Ma" Ryan, who runs a burger stand at the county fair, asks daughter Loretta to put a bet on a horse that Loretta's boyfriend Tommy is riding. Unfortu...

Blue Grass of Kentucky
1950
Story, Screenplay
The story revolves around a colt born in Kentucky and named "Blue Grass". and the training of the colt to win the Kentuck Derby. and how all of that a...

The Wolf Hunters
1949
Writer
A Canadian Mountie follows a fugitive to a small fur-trapping community. Most of the action is handled by Chinook, a handsome German Shepherd.

Forgotten Women
1949
Screenplay
A tale of three women who hang out in a bar and bend the ear of Harry the bartender. Kate Allison drinks to forget playboy Andy Emerson, whom she migh...

Tuna Clipper
1949
Screenplay
Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a debt. This turn of events puts Alec on the outs with his t...

The Lawton Story
1949
Screenplay
Most of the footage is devoted to the annual Passion Play at Lawton, Oklahoma, enacted by volunteers from several nearby communities. This portion of ...

Kidnapped
1948
Writer
In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.

The Golden Eye
1948
Writer
A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine. However, the owner, instead of ...

The Shanghai Chest
1948
Screenplay
Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites, and all three victims were connected ...

Docks of New Orleans
1948
Screenplay
Detective Charlie Chan springs into action when top officials of a New Orleans chemical company begin dropping like flies.

The Chinese Ring
1947
Screenplay
Soon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle.

Louisiana
1947
Additional Dialogue
The music-loving son of a Louisiana sharecropper uses his songs to graduate from college.

Bush Pilot
1947
Writer
Two pilots, who happen to be half-brothers, compete for the same girl as well as the same air cargo assignment.

Too Many Winners
1947
Adaptation
Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.

Born to Speed
1947
Screenplay
The romantic, dangerous and fast-paced world of professional midget auto racing provides the backdrop for this dramatic tale of a young driver who dec...

Behind Green Lights
1946
Screenplay
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a ...

The Spider
1945
Writer
An ex-cop is suspected of murder after he is found with a dead woman. The private detective is on the run -- attempting to prove his innocence.

The Caribbean Mystery
1945
Adaptation
The Caribbean Mystery is a remake of Mr. Moto on Danger Island (1939)-which in turn was a remake of Murder in Trinidad. James Dunn stars as Mr. Smith,...

The Bullfighters
1945
Screenplay
Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison o...

The Big Noise
1944
Writer
During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.

Cobra Woman
1944
Story
A man tracks his kidnapped bride to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.

Bermuda Mystery
1944
Screenplay
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.

Weird Woman
1944
Adaptation
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the cla...

The Dancing Masters
1943
Screenplay
The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor...

Jitterbugs
1943
Screenplay
The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon o...

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1942
Screenplay, Adaptation
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quic...

The Great Impersonation
1942
Writer
An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.

Sin Town
1942
Screenplay
Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get swindled themselves.

The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942
Screenplay
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan go...

The Body Disappears
1941
Screenplay
Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by...

Cracked Nuts
1941
Writer
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked att...

I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now
1940
Screenplay, Story
In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their youngsters who unfortunately despise each other and onl...

Margie
1940
Screenplay, Story
Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a songwriter, while she is desirous of becoming a rad...

He Married His Wife
1940
Story
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to ...

The Fatal Hour
1940
Screenplay
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessma...

Mr. Wong in Chinatown
1939
Screenplay
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to ...

Stunt Pilot
1939
Writer
The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two serials...

The Mystery of Mr. Wong
1939
Screenplay
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His...

Boy of the Streets
1938
Writer
Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.

Telephone Operator
1937
Screenplay
A telephone operator covering for a friend's "fling" finds herself in the middle of a major disaster when the city is hit by a big flood and her switc...

Adventure's End
1937
Screenplay
Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being ...
Atlantic Flight
1937
Story
Famous pioneer aviator Dick Merrill was front-page news in the 1930s, so it's understandable that he was summoned to Hollywood to star in his own film...

California Straight Ahead
1937
Screenplay
A truck driver races a train to the West Coast in an attempt to determine which method of transportation is faster.

Frontier Justice
1936
Screenplay
When Brent Halston returns he finds his father in an insane asylum and Wilton about to foreclose on their ranch and bring sheep onto the cattle range....

Forced Landing
1935
Screenplay
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...

Confidential
1935
Story
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.

The Old Homestead
1935
Writer
A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.

Ladies Crave Excitement
1935
Screenplay
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
Sweepstake Annie
1935
Story
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and...

The Church Mouse
1934
Adaptation
When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.
No Escape
1934
Script
“Crime film set in Malaya concerning the pursuit of a planter framed for poisoning his partner and suspected of carrying plague.” - BFI.

I Adore You
1933
Story
Norman Young wants to marry Margot Grahame but a contract with a producer prohibits her from marrying during a five year period. Norman spends million...
The Bermondsey Kid
1933
Writer
A newsboy enters a boxing championship where he is matched with a sick friend.
Little Fella
1933
Writer
The Stolen Necklace
1933
Story
The River House Ghost
1932
Writer
A gang of criminals masquerading as ghosts are eventually exposed.
Her Night Out
1932
Writer
A married couple accidentally become mixed up with a bank robber.

Outlaw Justice
1932
Writer
A man accused of murdering a sheriff, escapes a posse and joins a gang at the Bar-O-Ranch. The mistress of the ranch is about to be cheated out of her...

Gold
1932
Screenplay
A cowboy turned gold miner fights a gang that buys miner's claims and then murders them.
Lucky Ladies
1932
Writer
Some sisters inherit a large sum of money.
High Society
1932
Writer
A British comedy film directed by John Rawlins

Night Beat
1931
Writer
A young couple finds themselves mixed up with mobsters planning to rob a warehouse.

Dragnet Patrol
1931
Story, Adaptation
A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.

The Pocatello Kid
1931
Writer
Just after Pocatello's brother is killed, a wounded Pocatello arrives being chased by the Sheriff. Larkin switches the identity of the two brothers an...

Soul of the Slums
1931
Story, Scenario Writer
A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for fram...

Murder at Midnight
1931
Writer
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologis...

Caught Cheating
1931
Writer
Joe Cabrone vows to kill Sam after believing him to be having an affair with his wife.

Borrowed Wives
1930
Writer
Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".

Trent's Last Case
1929
Writer
Who killed the vicious millionaire Sigsbee Manderson? Not that pretty wife of his, surely? Philip Trent investigates.
Taxi 13
1928
Story
A crime caper featuring the 'first family of Hollywood' - the Watsons.

Scarlet Seas
1928
Story
A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long a...
The Little Pest
1927
Director
A slapstick comedy short with Neely Edwards.

The Phoney Express
1926
Director
Silent western comedy starring Charles Puffy
Sporting West
1925
Story
Sporting West is a 1925 silent Western.

All's Swell on the Ocean
1924
Scenario Writer
Homesick for America, Jack and his pals get aboard a ship U. S.-bound disguised as entertainers. As entertainers they're flops, but evoke considerable...

Society Dogs
1921
Writer
The picture opens with Brownie in a tuxedo, eating an elaborate meal and finishing with the proper use of his finger bowl. It is all a dream, however,...

So Long Letty
1920
Writer
Harry Miller is a "natural-born mixer" while his wife Grace is a homebody, distressed by her husband's errant ways. Grace finds a kindred spirit in To...

Why Wild Men Go Wild
1920
Writer
Party-hearty college boys Bobby and Jimmy tone it down for Jimmy's dad when visiting, but when Jimmy's sister declares what she wants is a real cave m...

His Pajama Girl
1920
Writer
Planning to fleece wealthy Henry Dodd, Blackie Blaisdell and his band of crooks convince the millionaire that they have located the deposed president ...

A Roman Scandal
1919
Scenario Writer
Mary and her steady, Jack, have differing opinions on "the stage"-- Mary wishes to devote her life to the craft, while Jack strives to settle down and...

The Hazards of Helen
1917
Screenplay
The Hazards of Helen is an American melodramatic adventure film serial of 119 twelve-minute episodes released between November 7, 1914 and February 24...