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Mike Donovan

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#1Miracle on 34th Street

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as Court Bailiff (uncredited)

7.4 / 10
ComedyDramaFamily

Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.

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#2The Killers

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Timekeeper (uncredited)

7.4 / 10
CrimeMysteryThriller

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

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#3Tomorrow Is Forever

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Conductor

6.3 / 10
DramaRomance

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

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#4The Pride of the Yankees

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

7.4 / 10
DramaFamily

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

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#5Storm Warning

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Townsman (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
DramaThriller

A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.

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#6My Favorite Brunette

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as Kelly - Police Detective (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
ComedyMysteryRomance

Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.

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#7The Last Hurrah

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Mourner at Wake (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
Drama

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.

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#8Mystery Street

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Porter (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
CrimeThriller

When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.

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#9The Blue Gardenia

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Fingerprint Officer (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
CrimeMystery

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.

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#10It Should Happen to You

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Bar Patron Watching TV (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
ComedyRomance

Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.

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#11Union Station

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Watchman (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
ThrillerCrime

Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.

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#12Johnny Eager

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Switchman (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
CrimeDrama

A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

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#13Woman on the Run

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Irish Cop (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
ThrillerCrimeMystery

Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.

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#14Angel on My Shoulder

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Court Bailiff (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
FantasyComedy

The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.

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#15Iron Man

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Timekeeper (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
Drama

An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.

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#16Let Us Live

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

6.8 / 10
CrimeDramaThriller

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.

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#17The Burning Cross

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

7.0 / 10
Crime

Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which have occurred in his hometown while he was away, a young man becomes easily talked into joining the Ku Klux Klan. Banned by the Virginia Board of Censors, and financed independently because no bank would loan money for it.

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#18Whispering Smith

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

6.7 / 10
Western

Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).

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#19Over My Dead Body

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Juror

8.0 / 10
MysteryComedy

Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.

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#20Smashing the Rackets

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Bailiff

6.7 / 10
DramaCrime

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, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...

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#21Wells Fargo

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Miner

5.5 / 10
HistoryWestern

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.

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#22Time Out for Romance

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Officer

6.0 / 10
AdventureComedy

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

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#23Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Jail Guard

6.8 / 10
Crime

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.

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#24One Thrilling Night

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Policeman (uncredited)

5.4 / 10
MysteryComedy

A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.

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#25Coney Island

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Sidewalk Mourner

6.3 / 10
ComedyMusic

Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.

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#26Midnight Manhunt

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m • as Court Warden (Uncredited)

4.6 / 10
ComedyCrimeMystery

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

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#27Return of the Ape Man

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m • as Policeman Barney (uncredited)

5.6 / 10
HorrorSci-Fi

The discovery of a perfectly preserved caveman prompts a mad scientist to attempt a daring brain transplant.

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#28They Made Me a Criminal

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

6.3 / 10
CrimeDrama

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

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#29Doomed to Die

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Det. Mike

5.7 / 10
MysteryCrimeThriller

Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.

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#30The Mystery of the 13th Guest

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

5.7 / 10
CrimeMystery

A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows.

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#31Angels' Alley

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

5.2 / 10
DramaComedyCrime

Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.

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#32Glory Alley

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Barfly (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
DramaMusic

A New Orleans boxer leaves the ring to fight his inner demons.

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#33Alias Boston Blackie

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Policeman (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
Mystery

It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.

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#34High Flyers

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Radio Cop

7.5 / 10
Comedy

Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.

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#35Son of the Navy

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Policeman at Station House

6.2 / 10

A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.

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#36Quiet Please, Murder

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Guard in Library

7.0 / 10
CrimeDramaThriller

A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

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#37Murder with Pictures

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Jury Foreman (uncredited)

5.4 / 10
CrimeMystery

Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...

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#38She Loved a Fireman

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Fireman at Red's Hearing

7.5 / 10
DramaAction

A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.

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#39High Barbaree

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

5.6 / 10
ActionDramaWar

After his plane is downed in the South Pacific, a Navy flier recounts his life to a co-pilot while awaiting rescue.

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#40Stage to Chino

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

5.9 / 10
Western

To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.

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#41Irish Luck

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Mike - the Cop

6.4 / 10
ComedyActionAdventure

A spunky young bellhop investigates the murder of a hotel guest.

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#42Jinx Money

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as Bank Guard

5.6 / 10
ComedyCrime

A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.

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#43Illegal Traffic

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

6.6 / 10
DramaActionCrime

G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.

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