Tim Whelan

Tim Whelan

1893-11-02 Cannelton, Indiana, USA 46 Credits

Biography

Tim Whelan (November 2, 1893 - August 12, 1957) was an American film director, writer, producer and actor. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Look Who's Back

Look Who's Back

2015

as Comedy Writer

6.8
Acting

When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomen...

Texas Lady

Texas Lady

1955

Director

5.4
Directing

Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. He...

Rage at Dawn

Rage at Dawn

1955

Director

6.1
Directing

In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint is a respected Indiana farmer. A s...

Utopia

Utopia

1951

Co-Director

5.6
Directing

Stan and Ollie are marooned on an island in the south pacific island.

This Was a Woman

This Was a Woman

1948

Director

6.0
Directing

The woman here is Sylvia Russell: power mad with set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able ...

Badman's Territory

Badman's Territory

1946

Director

5.7
Directing

After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law s...

Step Lively

Step Lively

1944

Director

6.0
Directing

Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.

Higher and Higher

Higher and Higher

1943

Director, Producer

6.0
Directing Producing

A valet to a bankrupt millionaire plans to rebuild his boss's fortune by passing a scullery maid off as a high-society debutante.

Swing Fever

Swing Fever

1943

Director

5.0
Directing

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

Seven Days' Leave

Seven Days' Leave

1942

Director, Producer

6.0
Directing Producing

Soldier Johnny Grey is engaged to marry singer Mapy Cortes, but his plans go awry when he learns that he is the heir to $100,000 from his great-grandf...

Nightmare

Nightmare

1942

Director

4.0
Directing

An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.

Twin Beds

Twin Beds

1942

Director

2.7
Directing

Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.

International Lady

International Lady

1941

Director

6.4
Directing

Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a...

The Mad Doctor

The Mad Doctor

1940

Director

6.0
Directing

A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.

Ten Days in Paris

Ten Days in Paris

1940

Director

7.5
Directing

Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true b...

The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad

1940

Director

7.1
Directing

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, a...

Q Planes

Q Planes

1939

Director

5.9
Directing

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraf...

St. Martin's Lane

St. Martin's Lane

1938

Director, Additional Writing

7.1
Directing

On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic mono...

The Divorce of Lady X

The Divorce of Lady X

1938

Director

6.1
Directing

The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.

Smash and Grab

Smash and Grab

1937

Director, Story

5.8
Directing Writing

John Forrest, an insurance investigator with a weakness for model railways, is on the trail of a gang of smash-and-grab thieves targeting Europe's mos...

Action for Slander

Action for Slander

1937

Director

Directing

A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.

The Mill on the Floss

The Mill on the Floss

1937

Director

4.0
Directing

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owne...

Farewell Again

Farewell Again

1937

Director

5.0
Directing

Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty ...

Two's Company

1936

Director

Directing

The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman. The fathers oppose the relationship.

The Perfect Gentleman

The Perfect Gentleman

1935

as Usher (uncredited)

4.5
Acting

A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.

The Perfect Gentleman

The Perfect Gentleman

1935

Director

4.5
Directing

A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.

The Murder Man

The Murder Man

1935

Director, Screenplay

6.9
Directing Writing

Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his...

The Camels Are Coming

The Camels Are Coming

1934

Director

Directing

A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help br...

Aunt Sally

Aunt Sally

1934

Director, Story

4.5
Directing Writing

An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she find...

It's a Boy

1934

Director

Directing

"It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a ...

Out All Night

Out All Night

1933

Story

6.0
Writing

A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery.

Hold 'Em Jail

Hold 'Em Jail

1932

Story

6.8
Writing

Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.

Girl Crazy

Girl Crazy

1932

Screenplay

4.5
Writing

New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to...

Peach-o-Reno

Peach-o-Reno

1931

Writer, Adaptation

6.0
Writing

After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Pr...

Everything’s Rosie

Everything’s Rosie

1931

Screenplay

4.0
Writing

A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.

Hook, Line and Sinker

Hook, Line and Sinker

1930

Screenplay

5.2
Writing

Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When...

The Fall Guy

The Fall Guy

1930

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre,...

Adam's Apple

Adam's Apple

1928

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

An American on his honeymoon in Paris, organises the kidnapping of his interfering mother-in-law.

My Best Girl

My Best Girl

1927

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his fathe...

Exit Smiling

Exit Smiling

1926

Scenario Writer

7.9
Writing

The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Fla...

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

1926

Story

5.8
Writing

A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also ha...

The Freshman

The Freshman

1925

Story

7.0
Writing

Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way...

Hot Water

Hot Water

1924

Story

6.8
Writing

Lloyd's look at married life and the issues of the in-law. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; A wild spin in a new aut...

Girl Shy

Girl Shy

1924

Story

7.0
Writing

Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young ...

Why Worry?

Why Worry?

1923

Writer

6.5
Writing

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

Safety Last!

Safety Last!

1923

Writer

7.7
Writing

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.