Jimmy Conlin

Jimmy Conlin

1884-10-13 Camden, New Jersey, USA 107 Credits

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jimmy Conlin (October 14, 1884 – May 7, 1962) was an American character actor who appeared in almost 150 films in his 32-year career. Conlin was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1884, and his acting career started out in vaudeville, where he and his first wife Myrtle Glass played the Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuits billed as "Conlin & Glass", a song-and-dance team. They also starred together in two short films, Sharps and Flats (1928) and Zip! Boom! Bang! (1929)...

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The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock

1959

as Magruder

5.9
Acting

In one of his rare performances without Bud Abbott, Lou Costello plays a rubbish collector and inventor. When radiation in a nearby cave turns his gir...

Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder

1959

as Clarence Madigan

7.9
Acting

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. ...

The Seven Little Foys

The Seven Little Foys

1955

as Stage Doorman

6.0
Acting

Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they...

It Happens Every Thursday

It Happens Every Thursday

1953

as Matthew

6.2
Acting

New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problem...

The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer

1953

as Mr. Demming, Photographer

5.5
Acting

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.

On Dangerous Ground

On Dangerous Ground

1951

as Doc Hyman (uncredited)

6.6
Acting

A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he ...

Sideshow

Sideshow

1950

as Johnny

Acting

A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He fin...

Operation Haylift

Operation Haylift

1950

as Ed North

3.0
Acting

A pilot devises a plan to airlift hay to thousands of ranch cattle stranded and dying due to severe winter weather.

The Great Rupert

The Great Rupert

1950

as Joe Mahoney

5.6
Acting

Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday wil...

The Inspector General

The Inspector General

1949

as Turnkey (uncredited)

6.5
Acting

An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mist...

Prejudice

Prejudice

1949

as Young Joe

Acting

Joe Hanson, who believes himself to be tolerant of other races and religions, gradually comes to realize that he is prejudiced against many of them.

Tulsa

Tulsa

1949

as Homer Triplette

6.1
Acting

It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee pla...

Knock on Any Door

Knock on Any Door

1949

as Kid Fingers Carnahan (uncredited)

6.1
Acting

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

Hazard

Hazard

1948

as Manager, Nevada Rest Motel (uncredited)

8.0
Acting

A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private dete...

Mourning Becomes Electra

Mourning Becomes Electra

1947

as Abner Small

6.3
Acting

Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conn...

The Hucksters

The Hucksters

1947

as Blake - Blue Penguin Inn Proprietor

6.9
Acting

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Seven Keys to Baldpate

1947

as Pete the Hermit

6.2
Acting

Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. The owner has given him the "only" ke...

Dick Tracy's Dilemma

Dick Tracy's Dilemma

1947

as Sightless

5.4
Acting

Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a h...

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

1947

as Wormy

6.3
Acting

Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, de...

It's a Joke, Son!

It's a Joke, Son!

1947

as Senator Alexander P. Leeds

6.9
Acting

Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merke...

Rolling Home

Rolling Home

1946

as Grandpa Crawford

5.0
Acting

An elderly rodeo rider, his young grandson and their injured horse help transform the lives of various citizens in a small town. Released in 1946.

Blue Skies

Blue Skies

1946

as Jeffrey - Valet (uncredited)

6.1
Acting

Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves com...

Two Sisters from Boston

Two Sisters from Boston

1946

as Grandpa Chandler (uncredited)

6.0
Acting

Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house ...

Whistle Stop

Whistle Stop

1946

as Al - the Barber

4.3
Acting

When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and...

Fallen Angel

Fallen Angel

1945

as Walton Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

6.5
Acting

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely wa...

What, No Cigarettes

1945

as Uncle Wilbur

6.0
Acting

There is movement afoot in Edgar Kennedy's house, where he lives with his wife Florence, and reluctantly with Florence's mother and brother. Without E...

Bring on the Girls

Bring on the Girls

1945

as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)

6.1
Acting

A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hote...

The Town Went Wild

The Town Went Wild

1944

as Lemuel Jones, Justice of the Peace

5.0
Acting

Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is ab...

Lost in a Harem

Lost in a Harem

1944

as Arab Follower (uncredited)

5.4
Acting

Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

1944

as Mayor (uncredited)

6.8
Acting

A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married some...

Hail the Conquering Hero

Hail the Conquering Hero

1944

as Judge Dennis

7.0
Acting

Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to ...

Summer Storm

Summer Storm

1944

as Man Mailing Letter (uncredited)

5.3
Acting

It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an...

And the Angels Sing

And the Angels Sing

1944

as Messenger (uncredited)

7.0
Acting

The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Po...

It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow

1944

as Boarding House Tenant (uncredited)

6.7
Acting

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new...

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

1944

as Little Thief

6.1
Acting

Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal thr...

Old Acquaintance

Old Acquaintance

1943

as Frank - Photographer (uncredited)

6.9
Acting

Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

Swing Shift Maisie

Swing Shift Maisie

1943

as Man at Meeting (Uncredited)

6.5
Acting

Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Bre...

Petticoat Larceny

Petticoat Larceny

1943

as Jitters

6.7
Acting

An 11 year old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soo...

Dixie

Dixie

1943

as Publisher (uncredited)

3.0
Acting

A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music ...

Hitler's Madman

Hitler's Madman

1943

as Dvorak - the Shopkeeper

5.6
Acting

In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.

Taxi, Mister

Taxi, Mister

1943

as Disgruntled Former Baseball Player for Bay Ridge Turtles

4.2
Acting

The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.

Slightly Dangerous

Slightly Dangerous

1943

as Bartender at opera (uncredited)

6.0
Acting

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

Madame Spy

Madame Spy

1942

as Winston

6.0
Acting

Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins kee...

The Forest Rangers

The Forest Rangers

1942

as Otto Hanson

Acting

Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prov...

The Palm Beach Story

The Palm Beach Story

1942

as Mr. Asweld

7.0
Acting

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an...

Broadway

Broadway

1942

as Newsman (uncredited)

5.5
Acting

Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.

Obliging Young Lady

Obliging Young Lady

1942

as Mr. McIntyre - Linda's Neighbor (uncredited)

5.0
Acting

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

The Remarkable Andrew

The Remarkable Andrew

1942

as Private Henry Bartholowmew Smith

8.2
Acting

When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he i...

The Lady Is Willing

The Lady Is Willing

1942

as Bum (uncredited)

6.4
Acting

Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep t...

Woman of the Year

Woman of the Year

1942

as Reporter at Bar (uncredited)

6.9
Acting

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hecti...

Sullivan's Travels

Sullivan's Travels

1941

as Trusty

7.4
Acting

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise a...

New York Town

New York Town

1941

as Burt (uncredited)

10.0
Acting

Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stef...

The Gay Falcon

The Gay Falcon

1941

as Bartender (uncredited)

6.2
Acting

Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along ...

Out of the Fog

Out of the Fog

1941

6.4
Acting

A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather...

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark

1941

as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

5.0
Acting

A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.

The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve

1941

as Third Steward (uncredited)

7.2
Acting

It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean start...

Ridin' on a Rainbow

Ridin' on a Rainbow

1941

as Joe

5.0
Acting

When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accomplice is Pop, the clown from the showboat. He leaves ...

Let's Make Music

Let's Make Music

1941

as Tim

5.6
Acting

An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.

Second Chorus

Second Chorus

1941

as Mr. Dunn

5.8
Acting

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exam...

Christmas in July

Christmas in July

1940

as Arbuster (uncredited)

6.9
Acting

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford Ho...

Angels Over Broadway

Angels Over Broadway

1940

as Pawn Shop Proprietor (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a...

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

1940

as Tour Bus Barker

7.7
Acting

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the d...

The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty

1940

as The Lookout - At Felgman's

6.9
Acting

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this br...

The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh

1940

as Second Hobo

4.0
Acting

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver so...

Florian

Florian

1940

as Stock Guard

1.0
Acting

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.

Edison, the Man

Edison, the Man

1940

as Waiter

6.6
Acting

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New Yor...

Two Girls on Broadway

Two Girls on Broadway

1940

as Poem Vendor (uncredited)

6.6
Acting

Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney wh...

King of the Lumberjacks

King of the Lumberjacks

1940

as Jimmy, the Piano Player (uncredited)

3.0
Acting

Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.

My Little Chickadee

My Little Chickadee

1940

as Squawk Mulligan - Bartender (uncredited)

6.4
Acting

While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold...

Calling Philo Vance

Calling Philo Vance

1940

as Dr. Doremus - Coroner

5.8
Acting

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's ...

The Amazing Mr. Williams

The Amazing Mr. Williams

1939

as Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)

5.8
Acting

Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For ...

$1,000 a Touchdown

$1,000 a Touchdown

1939

as Sheriff (uncredited)

2.0
Acting

A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.

No Place to Go

No Place to Go

1939

as Rivers

6.0
Acting

An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befri...

Torchy Runs for Mayor

Torchy Runs for Mayor

1939

as Coroner (uncredited)

5.8
Acting

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Nancy Drew... Reporter

1939

as Newspaper Morgue-Keeper (uncredited)

6.0
Acting

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter...

Idiot's Delight

Idiot's Delight

1939

as Stagehand

6.1
Acting

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

Comet Over Broadway

Comet Over Broadway

1938

as Burlesque Comic (uncredited)

5.0
Acting

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

The Shining Hour

The Shining Hour

1938

as Man Shaving on Plane (uncredited)

6.6
Acting

A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.

Hard to Get

Hard to Get

1938

as Dour Diner (uncredited)

6.0
Acting

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making b...

Broadway Musketeers

Broadway Musketeers

1938

as Hobart Skinner

4.3
Acting

Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nig...

Smashing the Rackets

Smashing the Rackets

1938

as Witness

5.5
Acting

Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile...

Prison Farm

Prison Farm

1938

as Dave, the Grocer

5.7
Acting

Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to...

Cocoanut Grove

Cocoanut Grove

1938

as Motel Proprietor

Acting

Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.

Torchy Blane in Panama

Torchy Blane in Panama

1938

as Botkin (as James Conlon)

5.3
Acting

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.

Over the Wall

Over the Wall

1938

as Davis' Handler

5.0
Acting

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.

He Couldn't Say No

He Couldn't Say No

1938

as Ambulance Driver

5.5
Acting

A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which...

Blondes at Work

Blondes at Work

1938

as Coroner (uncredited)

6.1
Acting

When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in...

Mannequin

Mannequin

1938

as Elevator Operator (Uncredited)

5.9
Acting

Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left beh...

Crashing Hollywood

Crashing Hollywood

1938

as Crisby

5.8
Acting

A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.

The Adventurous Blonde

The Adventurous Blonde

1937

as Dr. Bolger, coroner

5.4
Acting

The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fi...

Living on Love

Living on Love

1937

as Man with Monkey

5.8
Acting

A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".

Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous

1937

as Martin (uncredited)

7.4
Acting

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vesse...

The Man Who Found Himself

The Man Who Found Himself

1937

as Nosey Watson

7.0
Acting

Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it ...

Rose Bowl

Rose Bowl

1936

as Browning Hills

6.0
Acting

Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is ba...

The Accusing Finger

The Accusing Finger

1936

as (scene deleted)

4.7
Acting

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sente...

And Sudden Death

And Sudden Death

1936

as Mr. Tweets

Acting

An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she ...

Rose Marie

Rose Marie

1936

as Joe - Piano Player (uncredited)

6.2
Acting

An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.

The Bride Comes Home

The Bride Comes Home

1935

as Len Noble

4.8
Acting

A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in h...

Handy Andy

Handy Andy

1934

as Henry (uncredited)

1.0
Acting

A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty y...

She Learned About Sailors

She Learned About Sailors

1934

as Irate Neighbor

2.5
Acting

Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shanghai, he is of the opinion that he cannot support her in the Sta...

City Limits

City Limits

1934

as Napoleon, Second Hobo

4.0
Acting

The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up ...

Cross Country Cruise

Cross Country Cruise

1934

as Sid

6.0
Acting

A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murde...

Advice to the Lovelorn

Advice to the Lovelorn

1933

7.0
Acting

Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advic...

Footlight Parade

Footlight Parade

1933

as Uncle in 'Honeymoon Hotel' (uncredited)

6.9
Acting

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going ...

College Humor

College Humor

1933

as Dr. Mandel

5.6
Acting

A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.

Grand Slam

Grand Slam

1933

as Oscar Smelt

3.7
Acting

A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.

Sharps and Flats

Sharps and Flats

1928

as Self

4.7
Acting

Jimmy Conlin and Myrtle Glass perform a short vaudeville routine.