Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Onslow Stevens (March 29, 1902 – January 5, 1977) was an American stage, television and film actor. Stevens became involved in performing in 1926 at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where his entire family worked as performers, directors and teachers. His Broadway debut came in Stage Door (1936). He starred over 80 films, at first as the lead actor, but mostly in character roles later in his career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Onslow S...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000
as Dr. Franz Edlemann (archive footage)
Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
1999
as Self (archive footage)
Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by...
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
as Dr. Franz Edlemann (archive footage)
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
The Couch
1962
as Dr. W.L. Janz, M.D.
A psychopath calls the police before he kills, in between sessions with his father-figure analyst.
All the Fine Young Cannibals
1960
as Joshua Davis
An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.
Lonelyhearts
1959
as Mr. Lassiter
Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cy...
Tarawa Beachhead
1958
as Gen. Nathan Keller
A soldier is expected to never question the actions of his commanding officer, but when a Marine sees his CO breaking the law, he finds himself facing...
The Party Crashers
1958
as Mr. Nickerson
Troubled teenagers, ineffectual parents, and a climactic tragedy.
Kelly and Me
1957
as Walter Van Runkle
Failing vaudeville performer, Len, is taken under the wing of the German Shepherd wonder dog, Kelly, and a new act is born. Len hopes all his dreams a...
Heritage of Anger
1956
as Sidney Lennox
Industrialist Eddie Hanneman learns that his sons do not wish to take over the business that he has built. Son Johnny aspires to be a jet pilot. Howev...
The Ten Commandments
1956
as Lugal
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal qu...
Outside the Law
1956
as Chief Agent Alec Conrad
A government agent's son wins respect and love when he challenges counterfeiters.
Tribute to a Bad Man
1956
as Hearn
Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers soon as look at them. Fresh out of Pennsylvania, Steve Miller finds it hard to get used...
New York Confidential
1955
as Johnny Achilles
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid...
They Rode West
1954
as Col. Ethan Waters
A young cavalry doctor treats very sick Indians against orders, whom are forced to stay on unhealthy land, which could lead to a war.
Them!
1954
as Brig. Gen. Robert O'Brien
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists ...
Fangs of the Wild
1954
as Jim Summers
A young boy living at a mountain lodge witnesses a murder, and is then targeted himself by the killer.
Giving Thanks Always
1953
as Carl
During the many challenges in preparing for Thanksgiving holiday festivities, Anna and other family members forget the real meaning of the day. That i...
A Lion Is in the Streets
1953
as Guy Polli
A charismatic peddler from the Bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?
The Charge at Feather River
1953
as Grover Johnson
A frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.
The San Francisco Story
1952
as Capt. Jim Martin
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It isn...
The Family Secret
1951
as Judge Williams
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
All That I Have
1951
as Attorney Palmer
As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those in need, stating that "all that I have belongs to ...
Hills of Utah
1951
as Jayda McQueen
A singing doctor on horseback heals a feud between cattlemen and copper miners.
Sirocco
1951
as Emir Hassan
A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
Lorna Doone
1951
as Counsellor Doone
An English farmer leads a village uprising against their corrupt landlords.
Sealed Cargo
1951
as Cmdr. James McLean
A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishing...
Revenue Agent
1950
as Sam Bellows
Accountant Augustis King discovers that his wife, Marfhe, is having an affair with his boss Sam Bellows. He telephones Internal Revenue Bureau that he...
One Too Many
1950
as Dr. Foster
A once-famous concert pianist has had her career ruined by her alcoholism. Her husband and a member of Alcoholics Anonymous try to help her recover.
State Penitentiary
1950
as Richard Evans
A man wrongly accused of a crime must decide between getting involved in a prison break, or remaining in jail until his wife can prove his innocence.
Motor Patrol
1950
as Lt. Dearborn
A cop poses as a member of a stolen-car ring to capture the men responsible for the murder of his fiancee's brother.
Mark of the Gorilla
1950
as Professor Brandt
Nazis dressed to look like Great Apes are looking for gold, and Jungle Jim must stop them.
Red, Hot and Blue
1949
as Captain Allen
In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob.
Bomba, the Jungle Boy
1949
as George Harland
George Harland and his daughter Pat are photographers who discover a wild boy in the jungle. When Pat becomes lost, Bomba brings her back, overcoming ...
The Gallant Blade
1948
as Gen. de la Garance
Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.
Walk a Crooked Mile
1948
as Igor Braun
A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation...
The Creeper
1948
as Dr. Jim Borden
Dr. Morgan and Dr. Cavigny star as a brace of scientists who return from the West Indies with a potent, phosphorescent serum that allegedly changes hu...
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
1948
as Dr. Walters
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage ment...
Angel on My Shoulder
1946
as Dr. Matt Higgins
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
Canyon Passage
1946
as Jack Lestrade
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the l...
O.S.S.
1946
as Field
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII...
House of Dracula
1945
as Dr. Franz Edelmann
A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his ...
Hands Across the Border
1944
as Brock Danvers
Horse breeders Adams and Brock are vying for the Army contract. When Adams is killed trying to ride his horse Trigger, Roy saves the horse from being ...
Appointment in Berlin
1943
as Rudolph Von Preissing
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
Idaho
1943
as Bob Stevens
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
Sunset Serenade
1942
as Gregg Jackson
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Son...
Go West, Young Lady
1941
as Tom Hannegan
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
The Monster and the Girl
1941
as J. Stanley McMasters
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape ...
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
1940
as Bob Dunbar
When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the of...
Mystery Sea Raider
1940
as Carl Cutler
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940
as Frederick Keller
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The...
Those High Grey Walls
1939
as Dr. Frank Norton
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from...
When Tomorrow Comes
1939
as Holden
A famous concert pianist unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness falls in love with a waitress.
There Goes the Groom
1937
as Dr. Joel Becker
After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering, until h...
Flight from Glory
1937
as Ellis
Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bou...
You Can't Buy Luck
1937
as Joe Baldwin
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
Murder with Pictures
1936
as Nate Girard
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...
Straight from the Shoulder
1936
as Mr. Wendi
A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son.
Easy Money
1936
as Dan Adams
Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a j...
F-Man
1936
as Mr. Shaw
Johnny Dime has aspiration of becoming a "G-Man" , gums up the work of Rogan, an actual government agent is his pursuit of Public Enemy No. 1. Dimes a...
Three on the Trail
1936
as Pecos Kane
An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be ...
Yellow Dust
1936
as Jack Hanway
After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
The Bridge of Sighs
1936
as Jeffrey 'Jeff' Powell
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtne...
Forced Landing
1935
as Farraday
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...
The Three Musketeers
1935
as Aramis
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respect...
Grand Exit
1935
as John Grayson
A Stumped insurance company is forced to re-hire the most expensive, most big-headed, but best arson investigator to solve a string of major losses.
Born to Gamble
1935
as Dan 'Ace' Cartwright / Henry Mathews
A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family.
A Notorious Gentleman
1935
A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
Life Returns
1935
as Dr. John Kendrick
A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently de...
House of Danger
1934
as Don Phillips
To protect a young woman's life, a man pretends to be her injured friend so he can investigate a murder and capture the killers.
I Can't Escape
1934
as Steve Nichols, alias Steve Cummings
An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.
In Love with Life
1934
as Prof. John Applegate
Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that footbal...
Affairs of a Gentleman
1934
as Lyn Durland
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
The Vanishing Shadow
1934
as Stanley Stanfield
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices ...
I'll Tell the World
1934
as Prince Michael
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, new...
I Like it That Way
1934
as Harry Rogers
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
The Crosby Case
1934
as Francis Scott Graham
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
This Side of Heaven
1934
as Walter
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
Bombay Mail
1934
as John Hawley
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
Counsellor at Law
1933
as John P. Tedesco
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
Only Yesterday
1933
as Barnard
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in h...
Secret of the Blue Room
1933
as Frank Faber
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The thr...
Peg o' My Heart
1933
as Sir Gerald 'Jerry' Markham
Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of...
Nagana
1933
as Dr. Roy Stark
A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.
The Golden West
1932
as Calvin Brown
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He m...
Once in a Lifetime
1932
as Lawrence Vail
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
Okay, America!
1932
as Henchman (uncredited)
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Heroes of the West
1932
as Tom Crosby
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial.
Radio Patrol
1932
as Carl Hughes
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.