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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Kenneth Thomson (January 7, 1899 – January 26, 1967) was an American character actor active during the silent and early sound film eras. Born in Pittsburgh, Thomson along with his wife Alden Gay were founding members of the Screen Actors Guild. The group was founded after meetings held at the Thomsons' home during 1933. During his brief twelve-year career in front of the camera, he appeared in over 60 films. After appearing in several Broadway play...
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Rivals of the Dragon
1980
Master Chan (Jeffrey Chan) is a widely respected martial arts teacher who has several skilled understudies in the Los Angeles area. When one of his st...

Show-Business at War
1943
as Self
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

Jim Hanvey, Detective
1937
as W. B. Elwood
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they w...

Blackmailer
1936
as Mr. Porter
Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.

Hop-a-long Cassidy
1935
as Jack Anthony
An evil ranch foreman tries to provoke a range war by playing two cattlemen against each other while helping a gang to rustle the cattle. Each cattlem...

Whispering Smith Speaks
1935
as J. Wesley Hunt
O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is determin...

Behind the Green Lights
1935
as Charles T. 'Ritzy' Conrad
A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer).

Behold My Wife!
1934
as Jim Curson
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the...

In Old Santa Fe
1934
as Matt Korber - alias Mr. Chandler
Gangster Chandler and his accomplice Tracy arrive at a dude ranch. Cowboy Kentucky arrives at the same time. When Tracy double-crosses his boss and ha...

The Hollywood Gad-About
1934
as Self (uncredited)
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.

Cross Streets
1934
as Mort Talbot
A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an ex-girlfriend who jilted him almost 20 years before.

Many Happy Returns
1934
as Motion Picture Director
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual...

Change of Heart
1934
as Howard Jackson
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

Son of a Sailor
1933
as Williams
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.

From Headquarters
1933
as Gordon Bates
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.

Female
1933
as Red
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engin...

The Little Giant
1933
as John Stanley
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as soc...

Hold Me Tight
1933
as Dolan
Newly married sweethearts Chuck Evans and Molly Roberts work at Blair's Department Store and Molly plans to quit to be a stay-at-home wife and mother....

Daring Daughters
1933
as Alan Preston
A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.

Jungle Bride
1933
as John Franklin
Four survivors of a ship wreck are stranded on a deserted island, including a woman and the man she believes is responsible for the murder which her b...

Lawyer Man
1932
as Dr. Frank Gresham
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York City political party boss named Gilmurry. Adam's s...

Fast Life
1932
as Mr. Williams
Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor ...

Her Mad Night
1932
as Schuyler Durkin
A woman is accused of murdering a man who molested her young daughter.

Movie Crazy
1932
as Vance
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
Young Onions
1932
as Pete Boyle
After several years of dull marriage, Alfred (Forrester Harvey) and Dorothy (Dorothy Granger), Dorothy is yearning for romance while Alfred just turns...

Thirteen Women
1932
as Mr. Cousins (uncredited)
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.

70,000 Witnesses
1932
as Dr. Collins
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and...

By Whose Hand?
1932
as Chambers
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped kill...

Man Wanted
1932
as Fred Ames
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

The Famous Ferguson Case
1932
as Bob Parks
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall aft...

Murder at Midnight
1931
as Jim Kennedy
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologis...

Woman Hungry
1931
as Leonard Temple
This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Di...
The Bride's Mistake
1931
as George Reynolds
A Marjorie Beebe short comedy where she ends up next to lunatic driver Vernon Dent among other weird situations.

The Doorway to Hell
1930
as Captain of Academy
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and ...

Reno
1930
as Richard Belden
A film by George Crone

Sweethearts on Parade
1930
as Hendricks
Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsi...

Lawful Larceny
1930
as Andrew Dorsey
When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedicates herself to recovering the money.

Sweet Mama
1930
as Joe Palmer
A young girl falls in love with a member of a gang of crooks. She determines to bring the rest of the gang to justice so she can save the man she love...

Wild Company
1930
as Joe Hardy
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.

A Notorious Affair
1930
as Dr. Alan Pomeroy
A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.

Children of Pleasure
1930
as Rod Peck
A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.
He Trumped Her Ace
1930
as George Wilson
He Trumped Her Ace is a black-and-white comedy short.

The Other Tomorrow
1930
as Nort Larrison (as Kenneth Thompson)
The Other Tomorrow, a love-triangle drama, is a lost American Pre-Code film, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by First National Pictures, a subsid...

The Girl from Havana
1929
as William Dane
Joan Anders, a girl detective for a jewelers' protective association, poses as a chorus girl in a musical comedy troupe to capture a gang of jewel thi...

The Careless Age
1929
as Owen
Sir John Hayward, a noted surgeon, decides that his son Wyn, a medical student, needs a vacation as a temporary diversion from his studies. At Como, W...

Say It with Songs
1929
as Arthur Phillips
Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine....

The Veiled Woman
1929
as Dr. Donald Ross
A woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her own life, one of whom she had to kill to protect hers...

The Broadway Melody
1929
as Jock Warriner (uncredited)
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfie...
The Bellamy Trial
1929
as Stephen Bellamy
The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and Joseph Farnham.

The Secret Hour
1928
as Joe
An Elderly fruit grower sends a photo of his foreman, not himself, to a waitress he wishes to marry. She falls in love with the foreman.

Almost Human
1927
as John Livingston
John Livingston is a rich mama's-boy, who owns a blooded dog named Paul. Paul meets Maggie Mutt, and Paul, being a pedigree canine and somewhat of a c...

The King of Kings
1927
as Lazarus
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywoo...

White Gold
1927
as Alec Carson
A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father's ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her.

Man Bait
1927
as Gerald Sanford
Madge Dreyer is a sales girl in a large department store whose street-wise past long ago taught her how to handle any situation. A small adventure wit...

Corporal Kate
1926
as Jack
Frequently cited as one of the first war films to feature the female angle, “Corporate Kate” is the story of a pair of Brooklyn manicurists who go to ...

Risky Business
1926
as Ted Pyncheon
A domineering mother sets out to break up the romance and possible marriage of her daughter, Cecily Stoughton, with Ted Pyncheon by several contrived ...