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Complete Filmography

In Old Amarillo
1951
as Phil Hills
A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattle...

Sweater Girl
1942
as Miles Tucker
College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.

Scattergood Rides High
1942
as Phillip Dane
When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he wil...

Girls' Town
1942
as Kenny Lane
A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for movie careers.

Ball of Fire
1941
as College Boy
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is...

Henry Aldrich for President
1941
as Irwin Barrett
Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.

Hurry, Charlie, Hurry
1941
as Jerry Grant
In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled.

Her First Beau
1941
as Roger Van Vleck
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also...

Nice Girl?
1941
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice gi...

Pride of the Bowery
1940
as Allen
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain a...

Junior G-Men
1940
as Harry Trent
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the ...

Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
1940
as Harry Trent
The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men. Billy, the leader of the Dead End Kids, learns...

On Their Own
1940
as Jack Jones
The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pet...

Young as You Feel
1940
as Jack Jones
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go b...

Too Busy to Work
1939
as Jack Jones
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their househ...

Quick Millions
1939
as Jack Jones (as Ken Howell)
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.

The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939
as Jack Jones
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.

Everybody's Baby
1939
as Jack Jones
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

The Wrong Way Out
1938
as Windy Brown
Two young people get married and run away, even though their parents advise them to build up their savings first. After they get settled they can bare...

Down on the Farm
1938
as Jack Jones
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

Girls' School
1938
as Edgar Brown
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fl...

Safety in Numbers
1938
as Jack Jones
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

A Trip to Paris
1938
as Jack Jones
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be vict...

Love on a Budget
1938
as Jack Jones
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle wh...

Borrowing Trouble
1937
as Jack Jones
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Hot Water
1937
as Jack Jones
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

Big Business
1937
as Jack Jones
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.

Off to the Races
1937
as Jack Jones
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
Four Days Wonder
1936
as Tom Fenton
Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, J...

Back to Nature
1936
as Jack Jones
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and ...

Educating Father
1936
as Jack Jones
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come i...
Melody in May
1936
as Chuck
Ruth Etting is looking to get away from the glare of publicity for a few days so she heads to the countryside and takes a room in a small boardinghous...

Every Saturday Night
1936
as Jack Evers
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.

The Little Red Schoolhouse
1936
as Schuyler Tree
Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.
Flicker Fever
1935
as Sidney Roth
A family of out-of-work vaudeville performers are finding hard times in the east, so after hearing about the success of a fellow player in Hollywood, ...

Old Man Rhythm
1935
as College Boy
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.

She Had to Choose
1934
as Announcer
A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.

I Give My Love
1934
as Frank Howard
After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her small son about his imprisoned mother. She is release...

Pardon My Pups
1934
as Harry Vanderpool
Mary Lou is excited because today is her older brother Sonny's birthday. Sonny wants a motorcycle, but his father has decided to buy him a dog instead...

What's to Do?
1933
as Harry Vanderpool
Sonny Rogers has just gotten elected class president, he's a star baseball player, and has a cute girlfriend. But, thanks to the conniving of his riva...

Saturday's Millions
1933
as Student
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainte...

The Eagle and the Hawk
1933
as Lt. John Stevens
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enem...

The Iron Master
1933
as Dance Extra
The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the ...