Known For
Complete Filmography

The Crooked Web
1955
Writer
Following WWII, ex-G.I. Stan opened up a drive-in restaurant. His girlfriend, Joanie, is one of the car hops. They want to get married someday, but th...

Back at the Front
1952
Screenplay, Story
Further misadventures of comic soldiers Willie and Joe, now in Japan.

Steel Town
1952
Writer
Steve Kostain, nephew of the owner, begins working at a steel mill to learn the business from the bottom up. He rooms with a steel working family, the...

Reunion in Reno
1951
Adaptation
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.

You Never Can Tell
1951
Director, Story, Screenplay
Ex-police/army dog King inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. But someone poisons him for his fortune. He gets to go back to earth as a hu...

Bedtime for Bonzo
1951
Screenplay
College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in be...

Never a Dull Moment
1950
Screenplay
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madiso...

And Baby Makes Three
1949
Screenplay, Story
A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.

An Innocent Affair
1948
Writer
Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ex-fiancée. Unfortunately she is more interested i...

On Our Merry Way
1948
Screenplay
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the ...

Merton of the Movies
1947
Writer
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert...

Second Chance
1947
Story
Jewel thieves battle investigators.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945
Screenplay
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

Murder, He Says
1945
Screenplay
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visitin...

Follow the Boys
1944
Screenplay
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical ...

Good Luck, Mr. Yates
1943
Writer
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.

Something to Shout About
1943
Writer
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.

A-Haunting We Will Go
1942
Screenplay, Story
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.

Whispering Ghosts
1942
Writer
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murder of a sea captain.

Blondie Goes to College
1942
Screenplay
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, B...

Great Guns
1941
Screenplay
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.

Sleepers West
1941
Screenplay
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

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

20,000 Men a Year
1939
Screenplay
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it ...

Pack Up Your Troubles
1939
Writer
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

Hollywood Cavalcade
1939
Idea
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for ...
It Could Happen to You
1939
Writer
In this comedy/mystery a milquetoast ad man finds his good ideas constantly copped by ambitious coworkers. His boss doesn't even seem to see him. The ...

Up the River
1938
Screenplay
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently...

Five of a Kind
1938
Screenplay
Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.

City Streets
1938
Screenplay
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him ...

Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
1938
Screenplay
In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil t...

Battle of Broadway
1938
Screenplay
The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall's 1938 ...

International Settlement
1938
Writer
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).

Big Town Girl
1937
Writer
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a cro...

Dangerously Yours
1937
Screenplay
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one...

One Mile from Heaven
1937
Screenplay
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

Sing and Be Happy
1937
Writer
Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.

Midnight Taxi
1937
Screenplay
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.

Time Out for Romance
1937
Screenplay
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

The Holy Terror
1937
Screenplay
Corky is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for the troops, uncovers a group of spies.

15 Maiden Lane
1936
Writer
Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.

Charlie Chan at the Race Track
1936
Story
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncov...

High Tension
1936
Writer
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.

Little Miss Nobody
1936
Writer
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

Paddy O'Day
1936
Writer
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in ...

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

This Is the Life
1935
Adaptation
A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough--and takes it on the lam.

Silk Hat Kid
1935
Screenplay
Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an extor...

$10 Raise
1935
Writer
A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...
Tripping Through the Tropics
1934
Screenplay
Frank Albertson's father wants his son to marry Lois January, but they really are only friends. Frank watches Lois doing a hooch dance at a secret tro...

Punch Drunks
1934
Director
Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe be...

No More Women
1934
Screenplay
Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at ...

Sitting Pretty
1933
Screenplay
Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon propriete...

Rackety Rax
1932
Screenplay
Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual R...
Doctor's Orders
1932
Director
Doctor's Orders is a 1932 comedy

Soup to Nuts
1930
Writer
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for...
Plastered in Paris
1928
Story
A Harem Scarum Comedy of two Clowns in a Desert Amidst a Bevy of Harem Beauties. It's a Wow and How!

Play Ball with Babe Ruth
1920
Story
A serial of short instructional films using footage of Babe Ruth to explain the fundamentals of playing baseball.

Fatty Joins the Force
1913
as Boy
Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!