Biography
Paul Michael Kelly was an American child actor who later as an adult became a stage, film, and television actor.
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Complete Filmography

Bailout at 43,000
1957
as Colonel William Hughes
An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a dangerous test in a new aircraft.

Curfew Breakers
1957
as Police Lieutenant Lacey
Police Lieutenant Lacey, with aid from Coach Bettger, heads a crack-down on dope-peddling to high-school athletes. One kid dies from an overdose, two ...

Storm Center
1956
as Judge Robert Ellerbe
Politicians go after a small-town librarian when she refuses to ban a book. She's quickly labeled a Communist.

The Square Jungle
1955
as Jim McBride
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.

Atomic Energy as a Force for Good
1955
as John Vernon
Drama showing the reactions of citizens of a small town to the construction of a nuclear energy plant in their community, and their acceptance of the ...

The Steel Cage
1954
as Warden Clinton T. Duffy
Drama set in San Quentin prison.

The High and the Mighty
1954
as Donald Flaherty
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-t...

Johnny Dark
1954
as William Scott
A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George Sherman's 1954 film stars Tony Curtis, Piper Laur...

Duffy of San Quentin
1954
as Warden Clinton T. Duffy
San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.

Gunsmoke
1953
as Dan Saxon
Kittridge is hired by the villans but turns to defend the rancher Saxon after learning the true situation. Kittrige wins Saxon's ranch with a cut of t...

Split Second
1953
as Bart Moore
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.

Springfield Rifle
1952
as Lt. Col John Hudson (Ft. Hedley CO)
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipmen...

The Painted Hills
1951
as Jonathan Harvey
After years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to discover that his partner has since died and left Tommy fatherle...

Frenchie
1950
as Pete Lambert
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she onl...

Side Street
1950
as Capt. Walter Anderson
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a...

The Secret Fury
1950
as Eric Lowell
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen d...

Guilty of Treason
1950
as Tom Kelly
The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during Wo...

The File on Thelma Jordon
1949
as Miles Scott
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her...

Crossfire
1947
as The Man
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?

Adventure Island
1947
as Donald Lochlin
Travelers find themselves marooned on an island with a maniacal self-made ruler.

Spoilers of the North
1947
as Matt Garraway
When the Alaska fishing season ends, a crooked cannery owner, who owes a huge delivery of salmon to a Seattle company, manipulates local Natives, who ...

Fear in the Night
1947
as Cliff Herlihy
The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a sinister octagonal-shaped room lined with mirrors while a...

Strange Journey
1946
as Lucky Leeds
Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patt...

Deadline for Murder
1946
as Lt. Jerry E. McMullen
A favor for an old friend leads a Los Angeles gambler (Kent Taylor) into a dangerous search for a missing document.

The Cat Creeps
1946
as Ken Grady
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.

The Glass Alibi
1946
as Max Anderson
Eying a large inheritance, a reporter marries a rich woman with failing health. When she begins feeling healthy after the wedding, the reporter takes ...

San Antonio
1945
as Roy Stuart
Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is ...

Allotment Wives
1945
as Major Pete Martin
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.

China's Little Devils
1945
as Big Butch Dooley
In this propaganda film, a courageous group of Chinese children risk their lives to assist downed American pilots escape the ruthless Japanese oppress...

Grissly's Millions
1945
as Joe Simmons
An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.

The Secret Code
1944
Feature version of the 1942 American serial film of the same title, prepared for the export market, never seen in any media format in the United State...

Faces in the Fog
1944
as Tom Elliott
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the docto...

Dead Man's Eyes
1944
as Dr. Alan Bittaker
Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring ...

The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944
as Murdock
As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marb...

Man from Music Mountain
1943
as Victor Marsh
Roy returns home to fine a range feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. When his friend is killed he finds the rifle had a defective pin. He lea...

Flying Tigers
1942
as Hap Smith
Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into Wor...

The Secret Code
1942
as Lt. Dan Barton / The Black Commando
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.

Tough as They Come
1942
as Dan Stevens
The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and t...

Not a Ladies' Man
1942
as Robert Bruce
A recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher.

Tarzan's New York Adventure
1942
as Jimmie Shields
Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane...

Call Out the Marines
1942
as Jim Blake
Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Diego, then find out she's a spy.

Mr. and Mrs. North
1942
as Lieutenant Weigand
Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.

Parachute Battalion
1941
as Tex McBride
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Br...

Mystery Ship
1941
as Allan Harper
FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign co...

I'll Wait for You
1941
as Lieutenant McFarley
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.

Ziegfeld Girl
1941
as John Slayton
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on ...

Flight Command
1940
as Lieut. Cmdr. 'Dusty' Rhodes
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression ...

Girls Under 21
1940
as Johnny Cane
Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's acti...

The Howards of Virginia
1940
as Capt. Jabez Allen
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the ...

Wyoming
1940
as General Custer
With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.

Queen of the Mob
1940
as Tom Webster
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

Invisible Stripes
1939
as Ed Kruger
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

The Roaring Twenties
1939
as Nick Brown
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartl...

6,000 Enemies
1939
as Dr. Malcolm Scott
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.

Forged Passport
1939
as Dan Frazer
Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly...

The Flying Irishman
1939
as Butch Brannen
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight...

Within the Law
1939
as Joe Garson
Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful wa...

Breakdowns of 1938
1938
as Steve McBride (archive footage) (uncredited)
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

Adventure in Sahara
1938
as Jim Wilson
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own reques...

Juvenile Court
1938
as Gary Franklin
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the c...

The Missing Guest
1938
as 'Scoop' Hanlon
Newspaper man "Scoop" Hanlon is looking for a way out of his assigned women's interest column. The one chance he has is to spend the night in the "blu...

The Devil's Party
1938
as Jerry Donovan
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.

Torchy Blane in Panama
1938
as Detective Lieutenant Steve 'Stevie' McBride
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.

The Nurse from Brooklyn
1938
as Jim Barnes
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of sho...

Island in the Sky
1938
as Johnny Doyle
A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.

Navy Blue and Gold
1937
as Tommy Milton
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.

Fit for a King
1937
as Briggs
Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he...

It Happened Out West
1937
as Richard P. 'Dick' Howe
Bank employee assigned to tell Arizona rancher her property is no good gets suspicious when her foreman agrees. Turns out his banker boss and the fore...

The Frame-Up
1937
as Mark MacArthur
A detective investigates a racing scam.

Parole Racket
1937
as Lt. Anthony Roberts
Following a long investigation, Police Detective-Lieutenant Anthony "Tony" Roberts becomes convinced that there is some powerful unknown-master-mind l...

Join the Marines
1937
as Phil Donlon
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the tea...

The Accusing Finger
1936
as Douglas Goodwin
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sente...

Murder with Pictures
1936
as I.B. McGoogin
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for t...

Women Are Trouble
1936
as Bill Blaine
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.

The Country Beyond
1936
as Sgt. Cassidy
A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.

Song and Dance Man
1936
as Hap Farrell
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.

Here Comes Trouble
1936
as Duke Donovan
Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.

My Marriage
1936
as Barney Dolan
When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his...

It's a Great Life
1935
as Rockie Johnson
Desperate for work, Johnny Barclay leaves Ma and Grandpop to join the newly formed Civilian Conversation Corps. On the way he meets cynical young hobo...

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

Speed Devils
1935
as Martin Gray
A race car driver, injured during an accident, opens up a repair shop only to become the target of crooked government agents.

Public Hero Number 1
1935
as Special Agent James Duff
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailb...

Star of Midnight
1935
as Jim Kinland
When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.

When a Man's a Man
1935
as Phil Acton, Foreman Cross Triangle
A landslide has diverted water from the Baldwin ranch to Cambert's. With their cattle dying, Cambert refuses to let them have any water. Easterner Lar...

The President Vanishes
1934
as Chick Moffat
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman a...

Death on the Diamond
1934
as Jimmy Downey
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the v...

Side Streets
1934
as Tim O'Hara
A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.

Blind Date
1934
as Bill Lowry
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.

School for Girls
1934
as Garry Waltham
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However,...

Broadway Thru a Keyhole
1933
as Frank Rocci
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a star...

The Girl from Calgary
1932
as Larry Boyd
A French-Canadian girl is a champion bronc rider and is also a nightclub singer. An ambitious young man sees her act one night and is struck by her ta...

Slide, Kelly, Slide
1927
as Dillon
A minor league pitcher lets pride get the better of him after he joins the New York Yankees.

The New Klondike
1926
as Bing Allen
Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team. He starts dabbling in real estate, in...

The Old Oaken Bucket
1921
as The Youth
A Wall Street financier fed up with the city drives to the old country homestead where he was born and takes a walk through the orchard. Full of memor...

The Great Adventure
1921
as Another Leek Son
An artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must keep painting in secret to make enough money.

Anne of Green Gables
1919
as Gilbert Blythe
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is taken into the lives of a generous farmer and his sister. She grows from an adventuresome young lass into a charming and m...

Fit to Win
1919
as Hank Simpson
A film on venereal disease made by the United States government.
A Family Picnic
1915
as Jimmie Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Jones and their six children start out for a picnic in the woods with youngest son Jimmie’s beloved Great Dane pup along. The animal prov...
The Esterbrook Case
1915

A Horseshoe for Luck
1914
as Edwards' son
Sidney Edwards finds a horseshoe, but his bad luck starts immediately. After several incidents, his son quietly borrows the horseshoe, perhaps to turn...

Polishing Up
1914
as The Bellhop
When his wife goes away on vacation, a husband decides to use that time to do a little "playing around" and winds up at a resort hotel with two young ...
The Locked House
1914
Buddy's Downfall
1914
as Buddy Watson
Left behind by his brothers on their fishing trip, Buddy is disconsolate until he sees Lilly, a stylish young lady from the city, who is visiting Mrs....

Lillian's Dilemma
1914
as Dick Denby
Lillian dresses as a man to gain access to a boy's school.
Buddy's First Call
1914
as Buddy Watson
Buddy Watson, the youngest of three brothers, and just getting accustomed to long pants, meets Elsie Forster at a church social and is smitten by the ...

A Good Little Devil
1914
as Undetermined Role
A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.
Heartsease
1913
as One of the Sons
Eric Temple is a composer whose rival, both in romance and work, is Sir Geoffrey Pomfret , a nobleman with few scruples. The woman they both love is M...

The Feudists
1913
as Young Boy
The Craigs and Smiths, next-door neighbors, are the best of friends until Smith builds a chicken house. Their two gardens are connected and their chil...
Cutey Tries Reporting
1913
as Tommy - Ethel's Little Brother
The Mouse and the Lion
1913
as The Mouse - Tim - Burling's Hallboy
John Burling, a detective, rounds up some members of the Night Hawk gang. Bill Hanks, the chief, swears to get even with him. Tim, a little street wai...
Captain Barnacle's Waif
1912
Tommy is bright and good-looking and he attracts the notice of a lady in a London slumming party. While she is talking to him, he steals her watch and...
A Juvenile Love Affair
1912
as Jaspar's Son
Two little children, who think themselves very much in love with each other, imbued with the ideas of their elders, plan a romantic marriage. Alvin St...