John Wald

Acting
1908-09-06
Hastings, Minnesota, USA

Known For & Full Filmography22 Titles

#1Body and Soul

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Ringside Announcer (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
Drama

Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.

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#2Undercover Maisie

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Announcer (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
CrimeMysteryComedy

Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.

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#399 River Street

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
Crime

A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.

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#4Red Light

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Reporter at Airport (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
ThrillerCrime

Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.

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#5Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Radio announcer (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
Drama

A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.

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#6Screwball Football

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Various (voice) (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
AnimationComedy

A series of gags hung on a football game.

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#7Under California Stars

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as WYX Radio Announcer

5.3 / 10
Western

On vacation at his ranch, western actor Roy quickly finds himself involved with a horse rustling operation and a boy ward of one of the rustlers, leading to the kidnapping of Roy's trick horse Trigger by the gang with a demand for ransom.

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#8Public Deb No. 1

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Announcer

4.9 / 10
Comedy

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.

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#9Margin for Error

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as American Announcer

6.3 / 10
DramaComedyCrime

When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.

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#10Dancing Co-Ed

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Newscaster (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
ComedyRomance

After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.

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#11Peggy

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Announcer

6.0 / 10
Comedy

Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.

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#12Dixie Dugan

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Announcer (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
Comedy

Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.

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#13The Senator Was Indiscreet

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Broadcaster

6.2 / 10
Comedy

A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.

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#14Hullabaloo

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Announcer in 'Battle of the Planets' Broadcast

6.5 / 10
ComedyRomance

A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.

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#15Gangway for Tomorrow

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Radio Announcer

6.1 / 10
Drama

Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.

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#16Hitchhike to Happiness

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as Radio Announcer (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
MusicComedy

An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it big. Only an aspiring songwriter, and a former waitress who has become a famous Hollywood radio star, really believe in him. When the ex-waitress drops by the restaurant to say hello, she and the others decide to play a trick on an arrogant producer by making him believe the waiter has written a sure-fire hit. They succeed and the producer puts on the show. The singer gets to be the star. When the show becomes a smash, everyone is surprised. Songs include: "Hitchhike To Happiness," "For You And Me," "Sentimental," and "My Pushover Heart."

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#17Alias the Champ

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as TV Announcer (voice)

7.3 / 10
ActionComedyCrime

Slammin’ Sammy Menacker is killed in the ring, and Gorgeous George is arrested for murder. Out to clear his name is his manager Lorraine and cop Ron Peterson, who was already on the scene to investigate the Mob’s influence on pro wrestling.

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#18Free, Blonde and 21

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Announcer

7.3 / 10
RomanceDrama

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.

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#19Gangs of the Waterfront

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as Johnny Henderson

7.5 / 10
Drama

Gang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospital, without the knowledge of any of his gang members. District Attorney Brady induces taxidermist Peter Winkly, who is an exact double for Malone,to impersonate Dutch and assume leadership of the gang. Winkly "takes over" the gang and only Rita, Dutch's girl friend, has any suspicion that he is not really Dutch. But Dutch sees a newspaper showing him out on the town, escapes from the hospital and is on his way to look up the impostor.

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#20The Mad Hatter

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Various (voice) (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
AnimationComedy

A young working woman lives to shop, particularly for hats. She decides on a unique one.

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#21Her Adventurous Night

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Radio Announcer (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
Comedy

A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail.

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#22Swingin' on a Rainbow

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as Radio Announcer (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
ComedyMusic

A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.

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