Kenneth Thomson

Kenneth Thomson

1899-01-06 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 56 Credits

Biography

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

Rivals of the Dragon

1980

7.0
Acting

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

Show-Business at War

1943

as Self

7.0
Acting

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

Jim Hanvey, Detective

Jim Hanvey, Detective

1937

as W. B. Elwood

5.9
Acting

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

Blackmailer

1936

as Mr. Porter

5.0
Acting

Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.

Hop-a-long Cassidy

Hop-a-long Cassidy

1935

as Jack Anthony

6.0
Acting

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

Whispering Smith Speaks

1935

as J. Wesley Hunt

Acting

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

Behind the Green Lights

1935

as Charles T. 'Ritzy' Conrad

6.0
Acting

A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer).

Behold My Wife!

Behold My Wife!

1934

as Jim Curson

7.0
Acting

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

In Old Santa Fe

1934

as Matt Korber - alias Mr. Chandler

5.0
Acting

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

The Hollywood Gad-About

1934

as Self (uncredited)

5.0
Acting

A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.

Cross Streets

Cross Streets

1934

as Mort Talbot

5.8
Acting

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

Many Happy Returns

1934

as Motion Picture Director

5.3
Acting

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

Change of Heart

1934

as Howard Jackson

6.2
Acting

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

Son of a Sailor

1933

as Williams

5.0
Acting

A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.

From Headquarters

From Headquarters

1933

as Gordon Bates

5.8
Acting

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

Female

Female

1933

as Red

6.3
Acting

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

The Little Giant

1933

as John Stanley

6.8
Acting

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

Hold Me Tight

1933

as Dolan

Acting

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

Daring Daughters

1933

as Alan Preston

Acting

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

Jungle Bride

1933

as John Franklin

5.1
Acting

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

Lawyer Man

1932

as Dr. Frank Gresham

5.8
Acting

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

Fast Life

1932

as Mr. Williams

8.3
Acting

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

Her Mad Night

1932

as Schuyler Durkin

1.0
Acting

A woman is accused of murdering a man who molested her young daughter.

Movie Crazy

Movie Crazy

1932

as Vance

6.2
Acting

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

Acting

After several years of dull marriage, Alfred (Forrester Harvey) and Dorothy (Dorothy Granger), Dorothy is yearning for romance while Alfred just turns...

Thirteen Women

Thirteen Women

1932

as Mr. Cousins (uncredited)

6.3
Acting

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

70,000 Witnesses

1932

as Dr. Collins

4.8
Acting

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?

By Whose Hand?

1932

as Chambers

6.0
Acting

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

Man Wanted

1932

as Fred Ames

5.5
Acting

A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

The Famous Ferguson Case

The Famous Ferguson Case

1932

as Bob Parks

6.0
Acting

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

Murder at Midnight

1931

as Jim Kennedy

5.4
Acting

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

Woman Hungry

1931

as Leonard Temple

Acting

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

Acting

A Marjorie Beebe short comedy where she ends up next to lunatic driver Vernon Dent among other weird situations.

The Doorway to Hell

The Doorway to Hell

1930

as Captain of Academy

6.3
Acting

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

Reno

1930

as Richard Belden

Acting

A film by George Crone

Sweethearts on Parade

Sweethearts on Parade

1930

as Hendricks

1.0
Acting

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

Lawful Larceny

1930

as Andrew Dorsey

5.7
Acting

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

Sweet Mama

1930

as Joe Palmer

Acting

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

Wild Company

1930

as Joe Hardy

5.0
Acting

The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.

A Notorious Affair

A Notorious Affair

1930

as Dr. Alan Pomeroy

4.4
Acting

A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.

Children of Pleasure

Children of Pleasure

1930

as Rod Peck

4.7
Acting

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

Acting

He Trumped Her Ace is a black-and-white comedy short.

The Other Tomorrow

The Other Tomorrow

1930

as Nort Larrison (as Kenneth Thompson)

Acting

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

The Girl from Havana

1929

as William Dane

Acting

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

The Careless Age

1929

as Owen

Acting

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

Say It with Songs

1929

as Arthur Phillips

5.2
Acting

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

The Veiled Woman

1929

as Dr. Donald Ross

Acting

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

The Broadway Melody

1929

as Jock Warriner (uncredited)

5.2
Acting

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

1.0
Acting

The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and Joseph Farnham.

The Secret Hour

The Secret Hour

1928

as Joe

Acting

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

Almost Human

1927

as John Livingston

8.0
Acting

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

The King of Kings

1927

as Lazarus

6.5
Acting

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

White Gold

1927

as Alec Carson

5.9
Acting

A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father's ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her.

Man Bait

Man Bait

1927

as Gerald Sanford

Acting

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

Corporal Kate

1926

as Jack

Acting

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

Risky Business

1926

as Ted Pyncheon

6.0
Acting

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